Penguin Cafe Orchestra – who described their music as “modern semi-acoustic chamber music” – caught the attention of Brian Eno as they explored the nature of randomness. Founder Simon Jeffes died in 1997 but the band and their ambitions live on through his son. In 2017 we took a look at their prog credentials.
In 1972, Simon Jeffes was on holiday in the South of France when he contracted food poisoning from fish. During a high fever he experienced a series of hallucinations, including a dystopian vision of the future. He recalled the incident in 1988.
