• The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (PCO) were an avant-pop band led by British guitarist Simon Jeffes. Co-founded with cellist Helen Liebmann, the band toured...
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    continuation of his father's project, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. The group is distinct from the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra, despite the similarities in genre...
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  • Penguin Cafe Orchestra is the second studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, released in 1981, and recorded between 1977 and 1980. By this album,...
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  • Music from the Penguin Cafe is the first studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It was recorded between 1974 and 1976, and released in 1976. The artist...
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  • The Penguin Cafe Orchestra Mini Album is an EP by Penguin Cafe Orchestra consisting of six pieces, two derived from previous released recordings ("The...
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  • Signs of Life is the fourth studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It was recorded at the Penguin Cafe between 1985 and 1987 and released in March 1987...
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  • Simon Jeffes (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    the primary performer of, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He was the composer of the ballet Still Life at the Penguin Cafe, of the much-recorded piece Music...
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  • Arthur Jeffes (category Penguin Cafe members)
    of the musical group Penguin Cafe, a group he formed in 2007 to play the music of his father's band, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He is one half of the...
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  • Union Cafe is the fifth and final studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, released in 1993 under the Zopf label. The album was originally released...
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  • Patrick Street, which is in turn a cover of the original song by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. "What Ever I Feel Like" "I Want Candy" - Bow Wow Wow "Bus Rider"...
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  • Adam with Eddie Parker – Easter Song Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music for a Found Harmonium Nacho Sotomayor – Café del Mar Sonic Adventure Project – Forty–Two...
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    Geoffrey Richardson (musician) (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Caravan, Murray Head and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Richardson's father was a semi-pro musician. Richardson himself...
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  • the Penguin Cafe is a ballet choreographed by David Bintley and featuring music composed by Simon Jeffes, founder of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It is...
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  • Michael Giles (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    Michael Rex Giles (born 1 March 1942) is an English drummer, percussionist, and vocalist, best known as one of the co-founders of King Crimson in 1968...
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  • Wilfred Gibson (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. His association...
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  • "Perpetuum Mobile" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra, as written by Simon Jeffes. Prior to its commercial release, the song was referred to as "Penguin", which was solely...
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  • Steve Nye (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    keyboards. He was a member of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra from 1976 to 1988. Nye explains: 'The Penguin Cafe Orchestra is a prime example of the side I'm...
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  • When in Rome... is a 1988 live album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and was recorded at The Royal Festival Hall, London, on 9 July 1987. It was produced...
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  • was a trio, consisting of Chris Thomson, Peter Veitch (later with Penguin Cafe Orchestra), and Mike Ogletree (later with Simple Minds and Fiction Factory)...
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  • Broadcasting from Home (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra albums)
    Broadcasting from Home is the third studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, released in 1984 on E.G. Records. The opening song was named after PCO...
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    Kathryn Tickell (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    Oysterband 1991 The Bells of Dublin, The Chieftains 1993 Union Café, Penguin Cafe Orchestra 1993 You Hold the Key, Beth Nielsen Chapman 1995 The Shouting...
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  • from their debut album, Resident Alien (1995). It samples the Penguin Cafe Orchestra song "Telephone and Rubber Band". Released in 1996, the single peaked...
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  • Campbell, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Tommy Leonetti, and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. After hearing a Chet Atkins recording of "Walk, Don't Run", the...
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  • Helen Liebmann (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    member (along with Simon Jeffes) of the avant garde music group Penguin Cafe Orchestra in 1973. A cellist, she studied at the Royal Academy of Music. In...
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  • a section of "Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter" by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra is also heard. Night Shift grossed $21,095,638 at the domestic box...
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  • Crimson drummer Michael Giles, and Steve Nye and Simon Jeffes of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. The album was critically acclaimed on release with the NME's Nick...
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  • Khan, Remmy Ongala & The Super Matimala Orchestra, Geoffrey Oryema, Hermeto Pascoal, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Mari Boine Persen, Courtney Pine, Hossam...
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  • playing during the trailer is "Music for a Found Harmonium" by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. The song played during the street party is "How Sweet It Is (To...
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  • Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) "Perpetuum Mobile" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra (1987) "Velocities (Moto Perpetuo)" for solo marimba by Joseph Schwantner...
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  • Stephen Fischer (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    Geldof, Debbie McGee, Boy George, Paul Brady, Murray Head and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra as a keyboard player and singer. "The history of Eurovision – 50...
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