Next day when I felt better, I was on the beach sunbathing and suddenly a poem popped into my head. It was as if I were looking into a place which had no heart. The scene was for me one of ordered desolation. Like everyone in his place he had been neutralized, made grey and anonymous. Around him there were banks of electronic equipment. In one room a person was looking into a mirror and in another a couple were making love but lovelessly, in a third a composer was listening to music through earphones. In the rooms were people, everyone of them preoccupied. I could see into the rooms, each of which was continually scanned by an electronic eye. As I lay in bed I had a strange recurring vision, there, before me, was a concrete building like a hotel or council block. I had eaten some bad fish and was in consequence rather ill. ĭescribing how the idea of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra came to him, Jeffes said: After becoming disillusioned with the rigid structures of classical music and the limitations of rock, in which he also dabbled, Simon Jeffes became interested in the relative freedom in folk music and decided to imbue his work with the same immediacy and spirit.
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