Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!pjt@BRL-VOC.ARPA From: Paul TanenbaumNewsgroups: net.music Subject: Penguin Cafe Orchestra Message-ID: <7052@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 08:40:04 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7052 Posted: Mon Jan 7 08:40:04 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 02:29:26 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 16 I heard a story last night on 'All Things Considered' about Penguin Cafe. It's creator/leader, a Mr. Jeffs (sp?) says they try to create very pleasant, very simple, very natural music. I own their first recording, 'Music from the Penguin Cafe,' and have to say that they succeeded tremendously. The ATC story quoted a critic from 'Time,' I think, who said the music was too nice and pleasant, boring. Jeffs' reply was that "there are people who say they are bored with nature, too. The sound of a waterfall and things like that." Most of the time people complain that today's music is just strident noise. Now this is too pretty! Unfortunately, their recent American tour consisted of several shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I could have provided at least a dozen listeners in an instant if they had ventured as far into the provinces as Baltimore or DC. Even more so for Laurie Anderson. Oh well. +++paul