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Artist......: Penguin Cafe
Album.......: Handfuls Of Night
Label.......: Erased Tapes Records
Genre.......: Classical
Catnr.......: ERATP127CD
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2020-01-31
Str.date....: 2019-10-04
Quality.....: 574kbps/44.1kHz/2 channels
Url.........: http://www.erasedtapes.com
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1. Winter Sun 3:57
2. Chinstrap 5:48
3. Chapter 6:43
4. Adele 4:07
5. At The Top Of The Hill, They Stood... 5:39
6. Pythagoras On The Line Again 5:50
7. The Life Of An Emperor 4:56
8. Gentoo Origin 5:32
9. Midnight Sun 4:07
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,: Handfuls of Night began life after Greenpeace commissioned :,
: Jeffes to write four :
:' pieces of music corresponding to four breeds of penguins, to ':
,: help raise :,
: awareness for the endangered Antarctic seas. A fundraising :
:' evening at EartH in ':
,: Hackney followed, where Penguin Cafe premiered the four songs :,
: named after their :
:' feathered counterparts to a sold out audience; the rousing ':
,: contemporary folk :,
: inflected 'Chinstrap', the mournful and minimalistic 'Adelie', :
:' stoic and ':
,: rhythmic 'The Life of an Emperor' and the wistful, string-laden :,
: 'Gentoo Origin'. :
:' ':
,: "This record started with a core of pieces I wrote specifically :,
: about penguins :
:' in the Antarctic for a project with Greenpeace in autumn 2018. ':
,: There are four :,
: native Antarctic penguin species - each with their own :
:' individual ':
,: characteristics and natures. I carried on from there to envisage :,
: a whole :
:' anthropomorphised world, where these penguins had narratives ':
,: and adventures that :,
: we soundtracked", says Jeffes. But both the album and Penguin :
:' Cafe as a project ':
,: have origins that reach further back: :,
: :
:' "In 2005 I was asked to join an expedition re-creating Scott's ':
,: last Antarctic :,
: trip in 1911 for the BBC, using the same Edwardian equipment. :
:' I'm no explorer ':
,: but I was keen, especially as there's a family link - Scott was :,
: married to my :
:' great grandmother before she married my great grandfather. ':
,: :,
: Antarctica by this stage being a protected environment, we :
:' swapped to the Arctic ':
,: circle where we spent 3 months on the Greenland ice sheet, first :,
: dog-sledding :
:' and then man-hauling just short of 1000 km at 10,000 feet, ':
,: across ice fields and :,
: glaciers. :
:' ':
,: I had lots of time to ponder my life back home. It was then that :,
: I decided to :
:' get my Master of Music degree and focus on composing music, and ':
,: also then that I :,
: realised that even in the most remote silent places, music can :
:' still be a huge ':
,: part of one's internal world and imagination. Whilst on the :,
: expedition. I spent :
:' days playing things back in my head and also writing new ':
,: things, which I would :,
: then try and write down at the end of the day." :
:' ':
,: Handfuls of Night's tones, textures and melodies evoke :,
: otherworldly expanses, :
:' which at different junctures are either foreboding, awe ':
,: inspiring or peaceful. :,
: There's subtly morphing rhythmic repetition throughout, :
:' somewhere between ':
,: minimalism, krautrock and the piano-cascades of label peer :,
: Lubomyr Melnyk. :
:' Jeffes creates a kinetic, circling motion, which drives the ':
,: album forward in the :,
: form of a musical trip that mirrors the physical journey it was :
:' inspired by. ':
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