Simon Jeffes, founder of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, died from a brain tumour in 1997. Robin Denselow meets the remaining members of the ensemble.

You will have heard the music of the Penguin Café Orchestra, even if you aren’t one of their hard-core fans – like the two Japanese girls who flew in last month from Tokyo and turned-up to Glastonbury ...

Seated at his piano, the waistcoat-wearing Arthur marshalled a group of instruments including harmonium and ukulele (the musicians playing them included sometime Suede keyboard player Neil Codling and ...

Arthur Jeffes tells Adam Sweeting about his new-look Penguin Cafe band's exotic hybrid of classical and global styles, ahead of their performance at BT River of Music. By Adam Sweeting 16 July 2012 • ...

Penguin Cafe is bringing the music of the legendary Penguin Cafe Orchestra back to life, with a UK tour featuring a collection of PCO classics, Celebrating the unique sound that has captivated ...

Some groups form in school or college, some grow out of teenage friendships and others from "musicians wanted" ads; nearly all of them are formed with the initial idea of sounding like somebody else.

“Simon stopped us sounding naff,” was cellist Helen Liebmann’s blunt conclusion. As a performing entity, the idiosyncratic Penguin formation – with its uncategorisable blend of ethnic folk, minimalist ...

Originally conceived by Simon Jeffes (when delirious with illness from a dodgy fish dish) in 1972 as a utopian locale for dystopian chaparral, over five albums Penguin Café Orchestra proffered sunlit ...

When we need a civilising boost at Quietus Towers, we always turn to the music of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. John Doran talks to Arthur Jeffes about carrying on his father's legacy with a new album.