Penguin Cafe Orchestra
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Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Suggest New Bands and Artists
Forum Description: Suggest, create polls, and classify new bands you would like included on Prog Archives
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Topic: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Posted By: Man With Hat
Subject: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 21:18
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I don't know if this has been brought up before, but does anyone think that the Penguin Cafe Orchestra should be in the archives?
From what i've heard, they have progressive elements, however, if they were included i wouldn't know what sub-genre to place them in (folk? related?). ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 21:22
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Oh yeah! They're phenomenal and absolutely unique! Some people say their music is new age, it may have hints of that, but it's in no way bland, vapid, and insipid, as much popular new age is. The early albums are more avant garde, I think they could fit well there. Simon Jeffes (sp?) is an amazing composer by the way. ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 21:41
Totally agree with you there!
Glad to here you are on board with the idea.  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Zac M wrote:Posted By: mrgd
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 22:09
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Please include. It's surprising they're not already here. ------------- Looking still the same after all these years... mrgd |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 06 2006 at 03:07
they are on the list of band to ,include and everyone agreed that they should be in! RIO/avant prog for me
Does anyone want to help?
 If so, please write a bio of the group, their discography (take examples on the group entry pages) and PM me. I will create the page and then once the page exist, you guys can fill in the albums by pressing the ADD ALBUM button and enter the entire studio and live discography
Once you collected the data, this is adding album is fairly straightforward (it is better you type out the track listing , line-up and catalogue number and jpeg format of the artwork, than you copy-paste the info in the given boxes) and you get instant gratification as your name appears both under the bio of the band and on the album page.  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 06 2006 at 16:15
  Awesome! ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 16:11
| Noted. |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 05:21
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In the CD "The 20th Anniversary Album" for the 20 years of the EG (that I bought used and that I introduced in PA) is included the song "Perpetuum Mobile" of 1987. I do not know precisely if all their production is in that direction but I can say that that song is 100% Prog.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: January 28 2007 at 12:40
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I need to listen to Penguin Cafe Orchestra. I believe a lot of their live material is online, so I'll seek it out. Didn't they have Annie Whitehead in their lineup at one point? -------------   
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