On the Playlist 20/FEB/2019...

I can't believe I haven't played this band yet since I started these posts! Penguin Cafe Orchestra and today am listening to their album "Broadcasting From Home". I was initially introduced to this group by my first business partner Richard Close. After looking at each other's taste for music he recommended this group and he was right as I really like their music. Founded by Simon Jeffes who was a classically trained guitarist after he became disillusioned with both rock and classical music the group had success with several albums before Simon passed away from an inoperable brain tumor. Many of their songs have been used in various places that you would certainly recognize them. On this album the track "Music For A Found Harmonium" is a track that I would bet most of you would recognize from hearing it somewhere. What I like about their music is that they start with some sort of cyclical theme and then build on it in a syncopated way so it repeats but also doesn't repeat. I think this relates to the music I listened to in Africa growing up as there is very much a repeating structure to that music with changes thrown in to develop a theme.