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The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was a free union of musicians led pro guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes.
Only Jeffes and cellist Helen Liebmann permanent members of the group.
Other musicians that incorporated by the order of music pieces.
His music, not easy classification, has elements of folk music and a minimalist aesthetic.
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra recorded and performed for 24 years until Jeffes death.
Thirteen years later reappeared, with the son of Simon to the head.
His only concert in Spain at the festival La Mar de Músicas.
On Thursday 22 at 22:30 pm in the Patio de Armas.
That same day, at 20:00 pm in Town Hall Square will act more funky grandparents of Africa, the Orchestra Poly-Rytmo of Cotonou.
Simon Jeffes said that the Penguin Cafe Orchestra was born and lived for pleasure by the need to give pleasure.
Good old Simon is no longer with us, we left in 1997 because of a brain tumor and who now runs the Penguin Cafe Orchestra is his son Arthur, who plays the piano and harmonium.
Arthur's father considered the Penguin an open learning in which the musicians came and went, and almost never repeated.
One approach to music that in his opinion, allowed a great freedom and a healthy democracy.
To play works as delicious as 'Music for a found harmonium', 'Preludes & Yodels', 'Perpetuum mobile', 'Southern Jukebox Music' or the popular 'Telephone and Rubber Band', based on the unmistakable sign of an English phone .
The new incarnation of the Penguin, with members of the Royal College of Music, Suede, Gorillaz or Delakota, and the name of 'Music from The Penguin Coffee-recorded his first album during a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
"Penguin Cafe continues to occupy a unique place in music, nothing has ever sounded the same. Eccentric, charming, amazing, accommodating, seductive, warm, safe, modest and unforgettable: a true friend," says Brian Eno.
What are defined by Simon Jeffes, who came to work as a producer and / or arranger up with Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols as "imaginary folklore" and "modern chamber music semi-acoustic."
Arthur explains that his music would become "a big yes to the survival of the heart in a time when the heart is being attacked by the forces of indifference, darkness and repression."
The first album, 'Music from the Penguin Café', was published in 1976 in Eno Obscure label.
Appeared on the covers surrealist paintings with naked men and women in strange scenarios, wearing masks of penguins.
Curious to know how he came to Simon Jeffes the idea of the orchestra: "In 1972, in the south of France, I ate oysters in poor condition. I was in bed, feeling very bad, and I had a strange vision, a hallucination, a world where everyone lived isolated in small cubicles, without speaking to anyone inside a concrete building with an electronic eye that scanned and controlled everything. In one room a couple making love without love, in other a person looked in the mirror and the third a musician was listening to music on their helmets, but did not hear anything. All silent. Gris and anonymous. A bleak place. The following day, a little better and on the beach a poem popped into my head. He began by saying "I own the Penguin Café.
I'll tell you random things. "Jeffes thought that if you avoid the haphazard nature of life to have a nice orderly life are killing the most important.
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo of Cotonou in the Town Hall Square
It has been said that were the best kept secret in West Africa.
In March, before touring the U.S., Tout Puissant (Almighty) Orchestre Poly-Rythmo of Cotonou, the pride of the Republic of Benin, has toured cities like Dakar, Accra, Bangui, Niamey and Ouagadougou to celebrate the half century independence of some African countries.
An event.
Many people thought he had died or no longer played.
The journalists attending the press conference to see if it is true that the legendary Poly-Rythmo, orchestra founded in 1968, has returned.
Elodie Maillot, journalist on Radio France, jumped into the pool: it has become his agent.
The intrepid French on his blog has the vicissitudes of travel in front of a group of musicians sixties.
Yes, its musicians, the more funky grandpas Africa, called it "always willing to travel.
Maillot says, for example, all Nigerians from 7 to 77 years are able to sing one of her songs for hits like "Gbeti madjro 'have continued playing at parties.
Difficult to find an article about the orchestra that does not appear before or after the dreaded word voodoo.
Normal.
Benin is the birthplace of voodoo.
And, in the rituals of voodoo and Brazilian Candomblé close to Cuban Santeria, there is always music.
Complex polyrhythms traveled with slaves to the New World.
'The vodoun effect' is called a disk recovery CD and vinyl fourteen recordings from 1972 to 1975.
Are currently available in the Western market several reissues of her recordings on compact-seventies.
Good to know that between 1970 and 1983, Cotonou Poly-Rythmo recorded at least 500 songs.
Although they had an exclusive contract with Albarika Store truth is that the band recorded 'in secret' with a number of small labels.
The runs were negligible.
And today your vinyl listed either on the network.
The Poly-Rythmo artist managed to join in voodoo rhythms derived as the 'mongrel' or 'sakpata', which is supposed to protect against smallpox, with soul, funk, Caribbean ...
He did it with an old electric organ, brass gutsy, psychedelic guitars and powerful drums of voodoo.
The founder of the orchestra, Melomed Clément, and two other original members, bassist and singer Benth Gustave Vincent Ahehehinnou solo, with new additions finished recording a few months ago in Paris, his first new album in twenty years.
Is the return of African musicians who have fascinated the likes of Gilles Peterson or the guys in Franz Ferdinand (Nick McCarthy and Paul Thomson have not stopped to play with them in Marseille).
In the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles reads: "It's like feeling going through a doll with your face and that is James Brown who runs the needles."
Source: Mar de Músicas
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