BBC Radio 3 posted a clip from Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Remember them? I bought their first album when it came out and it was fab! 

Radio 3 say: Guess the time signature 👀

Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s timeless Perpetuum Mobile - performed in the Saturday Morning studio by Penguin Cafe and Arthur Jeffes, son of PCO founder member Simon Jeffes.

Hear their stunning session in full on BBC Sounds  - search Saturday Morning

So still going strong I guess!

Hopefully more eclectic than knowingly perverse, here's another sound I liked a lot and Penguin Cafe Orchestra were quite a bit on my playlist way back when and in the days of Walkman's I listened to them a lot on the way to work until the late nineties I guess. They somehow remind me of Michael Nyman and his 'Draughtsman's Contract' era of writing and as I have mentioned before that my tutor at Leicester Poly Art Dept was composer Gavin Bryars and, alongside Brian Eno, we had Michael as a visiting lecturer and all to a painting school (sic!) and all of them influenced my thinking, creativity and listening . . . . . . without them I would have probably stuck here . . . . . . .is that a bad thing . . . . . . . . I don't know

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