The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was a project of the late Simon Jeffes, a classically trained musician who created instrumental music that sounds like it was perfomed by a lost tribe, playing acoustic instruments and influenced by Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Not as weird as that sounds -- the songs are created with circular patterns and motifs, and to top it all off, there's a whiff of British whimsy. You've heard some of these pieces on TV shows, commercials, and film soundtracks (especially "Perpetuum Mobile" and "Music for a Found Harmonium"). "Preludes, Airs and Yodels" has the added bonus of featuring the Patrick Street version of "Harmonium" that turns it into a furious Irish reel.
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