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Was Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s “imaginary folkore” prog?


Penguin Cafe Orchestra – who described their music as “fashionable semi-acoustic chamber music” – caught the eye of Brian Eno as they explored the character of randomness. Founder Simon Jeffes died in 1997 however the band and their ambitions dwell on by means of his son. In 2017 we took a take a look at their prog credentials.


In 1972, Simon Jeffes was on vacation within the South of France when he contracted meals poisoning from fish. Throughout a excessive fever he skilled a collection of hallucinations, together with a dystopian imaginative and prescient of the long run. He recalled the incident in 1988.

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