View basket “East 101” has been added to your basket. Rain Before Seven… Penguin Cafe SKU: 20.00 23.00 £20.00 - £23.00 £20.00 - £23.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Erased Tapes Released Date: 7th July 2023 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Rain Before Seven... quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info *CLEAR AND BLACK VINYL* Penguin Cafe return with new album Rain Before Seven.. A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe’s fifth studio album, not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably. The title comes from an old weather proverb with the rhyming prognostication — fine before eleven — hinting at a happy ending, irrespective of the science: “I found it in a book and I’d never heard it before,” says Arthur Jeffes, leader of Penguin Cafe. “It has faintly optimistic overtones and I quite like it. It’s fallen out of usage recently but it does describe English weather patterns coming in off the Atlantic.” From the widescreen reverie of opener ‘Welcome to London’ with its cheeky nod to Morricone to ‘Goldfinch Yodel’, the self-described “Maypole banger” at the denouement, there’s a welcome sense of sanguinity, always with an undercurrent of exotic rhythmic exuberance. Playfulness pervades, with a titular nod to A Matter of Life… from 2011, the last album title that concluded with an ellipsis. That Penguin Cafe debut is the bridge between the legendary Penguin Cafe Orchestra, led by Arthur’s father Simon Jeffes, and the muchloved descendent, led by Arthur. “Stylistically it’s really satisfying to get back to playful rhythms and instruments,” says the younger Jeffes, who kept the group’s debut from 12 years ago in mind when writing the new album. “Certainly when starting out, I became aware that we’d stopped using quite a few of the textures that had been there at the beginning—and it was certainly there in my dad’s earlier stuff. So there’s a lot of balafon and textures from completely different parts of the world, musically and geographically: ukuleles, cuatros and melodicas that you can hear.” Encouraged by co-producer Robert Raths, the rhythmic elements of Rain Before Seven… have never been more to the fore and, at times, even hint at the electronic. ‘Find Your Feet’, for instance, is underpinned with more than just a pulse. Mixed by Tom Chichester-Clark, it brings to the musical melange what Arthur describes as a “near electronic feel”. He adds, excitedly: “There are elements of fun here which we haven’t really done with the last three records.” Another ebullient highlight is ‘In Re Budd’, dedicated to the late ambient godfather Harold Budd, who Arthur discovered had died on the day he’d been writing the celebratory ear worm with a deceptively tricky syncopation. Played on an upright piano with some “prepared” felt to accentuate the bounce, Jeffes feels a track with an Afro Cuban Cafe vibe would appeal to Budd’s contrariness. And then there’s the aforementioned ‘Welcome to London’, which got its name as the world started to open up and people were finally allowed to fly again. Jeffes, who touched down on home soil for the first time in a while, was struck by its cinematic John Barry-esque qualities as he took a taxi into West London from Heathrow with the mise-en-scène of the opulent twilight. The optimism is there, and maybe a little caustic irony too. “Robert [Raths] added a layer of nuance which I think is interesting, because many Londoners are not from London originally. So you pitch up to London as an outsider, and you haven’t really found your tribe yet, you get mugged… and then ‘Welcome to London’ takes on a more sarcastic resonance.” Artist Penguin Cafe Genre Jazz Label Erased Tapes Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings A 1 Welcome to London 2 Temporary Shelter from the Storm 3 In Re Budd 4 Second Variety 5 Galahad B 6 Might Be Something 7 No One Really Leaves? 8 Find Your Feet 9 Lamborghini 754 10 Goldfinch Yodel Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Penguin Cafe and more from Jazz View Product Quick View Penguin Cafe A Matter of Life… 2021 Electronica | Erased Tapes | 1LP Released 29th April 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Penguin Cafe A Matter of Life… 2021 £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Erased Tapes Released Date: 29th April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View Penguin Cafe Handfuls of Night Electronica | Erased Tapes | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th October 2019 £14.99 - £17.00 £17.00 Select options Penguin Cafe Handfuls of Night £14.99 - £17.00 £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Erased Tapes Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th October 2019 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Penguin Cafe The Red Book Penguin Cafe | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 10th November 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Penguin Cafe The Red Book £20.00 Label: Penguin Cafe SKU: DPC104LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 10th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jamie Cullum Pointless Nostalgic (Remastered) Jazz | Candid Records | 2LP Released 31st March 2023 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jamie Cullum Pointless Nostalgic (Remastered) £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Candid Records SKU: CLP32041 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 31st March 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Portico Quartet Isla Jazz | Real World | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th November 2009 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Portico Quartet Isla £16.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Real World SKU: LPRW174 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th November 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nina Simone Sings The Blues Jazz | 4 Men With Beards | 180g, 1LP Released 10th August 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nina Simone Sings The Blues £27.00 Genre: Jazz Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M806LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charles Mingus A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music & Poetry Jazz | New Land | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 28th October 2022 £38.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Charles Mingus A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music & Poetry £38.00 Genre: Jazz Label: New Land SKU: NEWLAND003 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 28th October 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Donny McCaslin Blow. 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