View basket “The Time Is Now” 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 Ray Charles What’d I Say Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 18th March 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ray Charles What’d I Say £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2835 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 18th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yusef Lateef Jazz For The Thinker Jazz | Go Bop | 1LP Released 2nd February 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yusef Lateef Jazz For The Thinker £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Go Bop SKU: GB015LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Descendants Of Mike & Phoebe A Spirit Speaks Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 22nd September 2017 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Descendants Of Mike & Phoebe A Spirit Speaks £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: SES-19744 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2017 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Robert Wyatt 68 Jazz | Cuneiform | 1LP Released 26th July 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robert Wyatt 68 £27.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Cuneiform SKU: RUNE375LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nina Simone Let It All Out Jazz | Back To Black | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 11th July 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nina Simone Let It All Out £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Back To Black SKU: 5360572 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 11th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Patrice Rushen Pizzazz Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 18th September 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Patrice Rushen Pizzazz £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1527 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 18th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View iiro rantala HEL trio tough stuff Jazz | ACT | 1LP Released 31st May 2024 £20.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders iiro rantala HEL trio tough stuff £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT SKU: ACTLP9988-1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ruth Brown Miss Rhythm Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 11th July 2023 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ruth Brown Miss Rhythm £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPANSD18026 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th July 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Mammal Hands Animalia Jazz | Gondwana | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th February 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mammal Hands Animalia £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Gondwana SKU: GONDLP011LE Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Helen Merrill Helen Merrill Jazz | Analogue Productions | SACD Released 14th June 2023 £38.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Helen Merrill Helen Merrill £38.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions SKU: CAPJ127SA Formats: SACD Released Date: 14th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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