Just discovered the Penguin Cafe Orchestra... I'm a different person! This music is like life it's self... happy, sad, emotional... simple and beautiful...
This song is like candy for my ears. So addictive. Chewy and satisfying, i don't know if that makes sense to anyone else but that's how it feels and it makes sense to me
My first experience with their music was in Madison Wisconsin in 1983. I bought a cut out record because the album cover was so intriguing and the title was unusual. I was 19. My musical tastes have changed over the years, but not my love for this group. They remain my go to for good times, sad time and mellow times.
FlowersInHisHair because in the modern world we are taught to be neutral, flat, like or dislike. There’s no place for melodies like this in the modern world.
What a beautiful memory. You are lucky to have had the experience of this marvelous music and to have a parent who cared to introduce you to it. La musique est la vie! frank
Simon was a genius. He so loved his music and it shows with the players. Such passion such fun with his chords and instruments. Always loved feet actions as a way of conducting the group. What a loss.
Last night (11 Dec 2007) was exactly 10 years since the death of Simon Jeffes and I had the great privilege of attending the first of three 10th anniversary concerts at the Union Chapel in London. PCO were as brilliant as they ever were, but it was even more special to have Simon's son, Arthur Jeffes, playing many of the pieces in Simon's place. Hearing them play live was truly a memorable experience.
Well, if punk is rejecting outmoded assumptions, garage is making music in a confined but expansive manner, and metal is a combined aural assault, then this IS punk, garage and metal.
Gracias por subirlo!!! Simon siempre estará en mi recuerdo. Telephone & rubber band es desde hace muchísimos años la señal de un programa de la TV argentina sobre películas de animación.
Have loved their music for years. Watch Air a Danser on RUclips. The penguin dance will make you smile on a s..... day. All the music is wonderful and is mystical in a way. The magic is in the repeated chords i think.
im glad i have the priveledge to hear this music i have only just become a great fan i wish the penguin cafe orchestra would come north so i could see them live im captivated
i was there as well - it was sublime. who are you all pissed of about? dont diss the penguin cafe - inspired music to say the least - goose bumps all round! and what a venu - gert lush all the way WOO!
First heard them play Prelude and yodel off the Broadcasting from Home album via The Old Grey Whistle back in the day.This is amongst the best music I have ever heard.
@fishorbit1 This song always make me a little melancholy and what you wrote made me very sad. I was totally unaware of his death even though it was so long ago. I have listened to Penquin Cafe for 20 years I guess and saw them live once at Glastonbury. Just another little sign how fleeting life is.
Had heard of PCO but never heard their music until Simon Jeffes' son re-created it on a late-night Prom last year. Was completely blown away. Got a version of Perpetuum Mobile for solo piano but haven't mastered it yet - maybe in 25 years time if I practice it every day
I first heard about Pengiun Cafe several years ago from the ending song from Napoleon Dynamite (Music for a Found Harmonium). After looking up the band, I fell in love with nearly all their songs (this being my personal favorite, next to their newer song, "Landau"). Being a youngster, I wasn't around to appreciate this band when it was popular, and I was only 6 years old when Simon died. Regardless, I love Penguin Cafe, and I LOVE this song.
Their music is extraordinary. I don't just mean that as an adjective, I mean that as what they ARE. Inherently. There's something extraordinary within it... Or something. :P
@SuperFantastich1884 have you seen 'Still Life at the Penguin Cafe' it's somewhere between naff and light-hearted but it's pretty good. We were studying it at school and I was like, hang on, that's the Penguin Cafe Orchestra!
@WillShakespeare2007 I've never really felt meloncholy at the album version, but this one is a bit more reflective I find because it begins with the B minor chord over and over again. And the tempo seems a bit slower and the instrumentation is different and so on. Just attests to how different Simon Jeffes could make stuff by changing it relatively little. Like I say, we lost something special.
They were more popular in Europe than the US I believe. I never heard of them either until I saw their PBS program several years ago. Sadly, Simon Jeffes died about ten years ago or so.
Probably get shot for this.... I had my eyes shut and all I could think of was a salmon heading home from the sea, the music lifted my heart and variously let it down... Sorry for rambling, that's how I heard it.
There is nothing like them in the whole wide world :-D To me, Jan Johansson is something similar (swedish jazz) and perhaps Corelli's sonatas too (baroque composer) Both sometimes give me the same kind of joy :-)
Just discovered the Penguin Cafe Orchestra... I'm a different person! This music is like life it's self... happy, sad, emotional... simple and beautiful...
Same here! Just found them & this music sounds like clean water in my brain, cleansing.
I can listen to this a thousand times a day. Beautiful
The most beautiful band I've ever heard or seen.
This song is like candy for my ears. So addictive. Chewy and satisfying, i don't know if that makes sense to anyone else but that's how it feels and it makes sense to me
First band I ever saw live, I must have been around 6 when they visited Madrid. One of the first experiences I can recall. What a beautiful song.
songsa have words
You started in the music world with a very high standard.
For me, this music transmits feeling of the moment when you realize that smth is never possible to experience again.
sundreev Something like that. I have a strange attachment to it too.
that's very true, something just like youth, or innocence, or empty wealth.
I've never seen someone so absolutely happy while playing a guitar. It's like his world is perfect in every way. I must learn from him.
Can't believe I just discovered this wonderful music and band but I'm so glad that I did. Joyful ..
Absolute perfection and class. This is real music
Always puts a smile on my face and I love sharing with friends who then smile also
My first experience with their music was in Madison Wisconsin in 1983. I bought a cut out record because the album cover was so intriguing and the title was unusual. I was 19. My musical tastes have changed over the years, but not my love for this group. They remain my go to for good times, sad time and mellow times.
Can we ever have anything like them again? Thank you Simon, if the world listened to your music, how could there be conflict?
PCO、13歳の時に知り大好きになりました、得に2 ndアルバムの1曲目のこの曲は大好きです
今53歳になりましたが今でもPCOを車の運転中などに聴くと何か不思議な気分、ノスタルジックな気分になり心地いいです
That was my favourite song when i was a child, my father always listen their music. Sorry 4 my english hehe.
4TheLoveOfHouseMusic sweet bro x
11 years ago
Why is there no "adore" button to click?
FlowersInHisHair because in the modern world we are taught to be neutral, flat, like or dislike. There’s no place for melodies like this in the modern world.
we are alive! and this captures this beautifully!
This is such a great track, no matter how many times I listen to it I never tire. Thank you for sharing.
What a beautiful memory. You are lucky to have had the experience of this marvelous music and to have a parent who cared to introduce you to it.
La musique est la vie!
frank
PCO 's music fills me with a feeling of something that's just out of reach. Wonderful.
Simon was a genius. He so loved his music and it shows with the players. Such passion such fun with his chords and instruments. Always loved feet actions as a way of conducting the group. What a loss.
Beautiful
This is simply divine.
the best use of strings and a very beautifuly synchronization. world best...................
Beautiful, as always clever arrangement with master musicians . ...
This is the kind of music I'd like to show to aliens when they visit us
👽
Last night (11 Dec 2007) was exactly 10 years since the death of Simon Jeffes and I had the great privilege of attending the first of three 10th anniversary concerts at the Union Chapel in London. PCO were as brilliant as they ever were, but it was even more special to have Simon's son, Arthur Jeffes, playing many of the pieces in Simon's place. Hearing them play live was truly a memorable experience.
Una delle formazioni più originali, raffinate e gioiose. Coniugano leggerezza ed avanguardia..
thank you so much for this beautiful music !
me encanta esta orquesta!
you can't help but love this it just makes you so happy!
Tell me about it! Whenever I felt blue, I'd put this on or Perpetuum Mobile.
For a few minutes I was like a child with a skipping rope.
i love this and i love punk, garage & metal ... really.
Well, if punk is rejecting outmoded assumptions, garage is making music in a confined but expansive manner, and metal is a combined aural assault, then this IS punk, garage and metal.
Gracias por subirlo!!! Simon siempre estará en mi recuerdo. Telephone & rubber band es desde hace muchísimos años la señal de un programa de la TV argentina sobre películas de animación.
Beautiful piece of music.
I listen to this music more and more. It lifts my spirit TBH Though I'd never have found PCO if not for the internet.
Thanks for posting this. I love the PCO.
Beautiful song, great performance and wonderfully filmed.
Love this!! This is so beautiful!! I hear this quite regularly on the syndicated radio show Quietmusic.
Wonderful, transports me to a place free of the worries of today ++++++++
Deze muziek gaat door merg en been,prachtig chapeau aan hun
Wonderful ! I listen to it again and again. Is there a tab of the guitar part ? Thanks if someone can help me !
Have loved their music for years. Watch Air a Danser on RUclips. The penguin dance will make you smile on a s..... day. All the music is wonderful and is mystical in a way. The magic is in the repeated chords i think.
for some reason, i find it amazing how the intro transitions into a background element.
I was there too. It was absolutely amazing.
im glad i have the priveledge to hear this music i have only just become a great fan i wish the penguin cafe orchestra would come north so i could see them live im captivated
What this needs is a good rap solo half way through
i was there as well - it was sublime. who are you all pissed of about? dont diss the penguin cafe - inspired music to say the least - goose bumps all round! and what a venu - gert lush all the way WOO!
Such a beautifully eccentric group :D
Beautiful!
Marvellous tune.
First heard them play Prelude and yodel off the Broadcasting from Home album via The Old Grey Whistle back in the day.This is amongst the best music I have ever heard.
Just returned from seeing them tonight - his son now leads the Orchestra. - he is a wonderful multi-instrumentalist - SHEER BLISS!
@fishorbit1 This song always make me a little melancholy and what you wrote made me very sad. I was totally unaware of his death even though it was so long ago. I have listened to Penquin Cafe for 20 years I guess and saw them live once at Glastonbury. Just another little sign how fleeting life is.
Lovely.
simplely wonderful
Sublime
Had heard of PCO but never heard their music until Simon Jeffes' son re-created it on a late-night Prom last year. Was completely blown away. Got a version of Perpetuum Mobile for solo piano but haven't mastered it yet - maybe in 25 years time if I practice it every day
Just a cold stone hearted person couldn't love this.
beautiful!
I first heard about Pengiun Cafe several years ago from the ending song from Napoleon Dynamite (Music for a Found Harmonium). After looking up the band, I fell in love with nearly all their songs (this being my personal favorite, next to their newer song, "Landau"). Being a youngster, I wasn't around to appreciate this band when it was popular, and I was only 6 years old when Simon died. Regardless, I love Penguin Cafe, and I LOVE this song.
still alive. thx.
big stufff you did.
funny, to listen after all, by these creme-schnitten.
volker wagner hehe sweet man.
we want more Penguin Café Orchestra!! (there's so little of it on You Tube)
Air a danser, mi canción favorita!!!
My heart swells like a toad hearing these glorious notes.
Their music is extraordinary. I don't just mean that as an adjective, I mean that as what they ARE. Inherently. There's something extraordinary within it... Or something. :P
amazing
@SuperFantastich1884
have you seen 'Still Life at the Penguin Cafe' it's somewhere between naff and light-hearted but it's pretty good. We were studying it at school and I was like, hang on, that's the Penguin Cafe Orchestra!
@WillShakespeare2007
I've never really felt meloncholy at the album version, but this one is a bit more reflective I find because it begins with the B minor chord over and over again. And the tempo seems a bit slower and the instrumentation is different and so on. Just attests to how different Simon Jeffes could make stuff by changing it relatively little. Like I say, we lost something special.
lovely image!!
I think I remember playing you the lp in ledbury rd but wouldn't want to take any credit ;-)
awesome
Que gran grupo!
They were more popular in Europe than the US I believe. I never heard of them either until I saw their PBS program several years ago. Sadly, Simon Jeffes died about ten years ago or so.
Probably get shot for this....
I had my eyes shut and all I could think of was a salmon heading home from the sea, the music lifted my heart and variously let it down...
Sorry for rambling, that's how I heard it.
I just know Alt-J would love this, hope they've heard it
I realise more and more, after searching the net you are spot on with that comment fishorbit1. :+(
Dan ganas de tomarse un tecito con estos pingüinos.
Aplausos...
Emotion
PCO is making me feel human in a defensive world where love is, to some degree, lost
Such a beautiful song😊 Does anyone know bands similar to PCO?
There is nothing like them in the whole wide world :-D To me, Jan Johansson is something similar (swedish jazz) and perhaps Corelli's sonatas too (baroque composer) Both sometimes give me the same kind of joy :-)
Brian Eno.
Hi!
love that version of this music!!!
do you know in what CD is it...? I have the CD `81, but it is another version...
thank`s! kss
Musicians!!!!
♥ .
Beeellooo!!
croft was here. musical poetry! loved it!
my channel is visual poetry, i only wish i could do this too!
Titanic brought me here
Simon Jeffes - RIP.
gotta admit...the PCO are my guilty pleasure
suppppppppppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer demais
Really beautiful music. Do you have the rubber band one, by any chance?
we lost something big when we lost Simon Jeffes
anyone dead from that group?
They are outstanding.
Lembra Heitor Villa Lobos.
Is there a DVD ?
the BBC have a DVD I'm sure
C'est "Air à danser" et pas "Air á danser".
Hash3
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#$%$#% i love this.