Ahead of the release of their much anticipated 10th Anniversary Remastered Edition of A Matter of Life… 2021, Penguin Cafe share the remastered studio version of the album's closing piece Coriolis, along with a video of Arthur Jeffes performing a 2021 live rendition of the song on the dulcitone in his second home in Tuscany.
Watch the video:
youtu.be/Kt0A8vWyM5k
The remastered track, a duet between Arthur Jeffes on piano and Oli Langford on violin, incorporates the aesthetics of the original PCO, seasoned into a confident and redefined style, maintaining that quintessentially English sound, but adding a fresh direction and a sense that they are evolving into something new and very much their own.
"The version of Coriolis that ended up on the record is actually a mix of several takes we recorded on a very slow, cosy day in the studio. It had been raining for days and Oli, our violinist, and I had the basic idea and played around with it. In the end the initial recordings sounded so beautiful I just cut together the best parts to make it into the song we have here. It always makes me think of rain."
Penguin Cafe will be performing songs from the album live at the Barbican Hall tonight, on March 22, the day this single gets released, followed by a UK festival tour this summer including The Great Escape. The album will be released via Erased Tapes on April 29.
from
A Matter of Life... 2021,
released April 29, 2022
Composed by Arthur Jeffes
Published by Editions Penguin Cafe
Produced by Arthur Jeffes
Recorded and mixed by Jamie Orchard-Lisle
and Arthur Jeffes at Hippodrome Place in London, 2010
on a Trident Series 70 with EMT 262 plate, TLA 5013 dual valve EQ
and C-1 compressor with two Metric Halo 2882 and a Digidesign 192
Musical director Vincent Greene
Mastered by Zino Mikorey
Performers
Arthur Jeffes — piano
Oli Langford — violin
Photographs by Alex Kozobolis
Based on the original detail from a painting by Emily Young
Design by Studio Torsten Posselt
Art direction Robert Raths
©+℗ 2022 Erased Tapes Records Ltd. All tapes erased.