Penguin Cafe: Beak Performance

byStephen Dalton
May 12, 2022

Descended from the esteemed Penguin Cafe Orchestra – founded by the incomparable Simon Jeffes – Penguin Cafe’s Arthur Jeffes reflects on his father’s legacy, making music on his own terms and being endorsed by Kraftwerk

Want to read more?

Sign up to Electronic Sound Premium to gain access to every post, video, special offers, and more. 100%, all you can eat, no commitment, cancel any time.

Already a premium member? Log in here

Stephen Dalton

Global Communication: Communication Restored

byBen Willmott

Ambient kings Global Communication have curated a new boxset of their most celebrated work, including their classic ’76:14’ album and their legendary Chapterhouse remixes. Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard give us the lowdown

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Mad Men: Synth Magazine Advertising

byDick Martini

Ah, the far off days of tempting magazine adverts selling new-fangled synthesisers. We take a trip through some of the very best. They don’t make ’em like this anymore… which is probably just as well

LLong Reads

11 minute read

Dubstar: May The North Be With You

byMalcom Jack

Reunited with producer Stephen Hague, Dubstar are back with a cracking album of “full-spectrum megapop” and “acutely observed kitchen-sink dramas”. Normal service resumes, then…

LLong Reads

13 minute read

Roger Eno and Brian Eno: Band Of Brothers

byMark Roland

As you might expect from an afternoon with Roger Eno and Brian Eno, whose ’Mixing Colours’ album sees them working together as a duo for the first time, there’s plenty of talk of algorithms and double pendulums and sound worlds. And jokes.

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Zombie Zombie: Monster Mash

byJeremy Allen

French trio Zombie Zombie take an unexpected leap of faith on their new album, a “reverberated doom orgy” that fuses Latin and choral arrangements with fizzing analogue synths and vocoders

LLong Reads