EPC Music manages the iconic band Penguin Cafe, along with the solo activities of Arthur Jeffes and curates the historic Penguin Cafe Orchestra catalogue.
We are always looking for creative projects and collaborations that allow us to explore and share our music further.
Our current projects include Film, Art, Dance and interactive audiovisual Live shows.
PENGUIN CAFE
Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned PCO music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997.
Arthur, a talented composer in his own right, quickly began to create new and unique genre-defying music, blending classical instruments like violins and cellos with unexpected elements like ukuleles and melodicas, the spellbinding philosophy of the Penguin Cafe always in his mind.
Penguin Cafe have released five studio albums of original music:
A Matter of Life 2008 | The Red Book 2014 | The Imperfect Sea 2017 | Handfuls of Night 2019 | Rain Before Seven… 2023
‘Rain Before Seven…’ the newest and much applauded Penguin Cafe album was released in July 2023 coupled with extensive UK touring through November and December, including returning to London’s Union Chapel. They also released their first ever recording of Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s classic ‘Perpetuum Mobile’ with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and performed it live with members of the BBC Philharmonic to a sold-out Peel Hall in Manchester as part of the FatOut Festival in September 2023, and new live dates are coming 2024.
ARTHUR JEFFES
Arthur Jeffes is a composer and producer working in London. Arthur works with groups that include Penguin Cafe, Sundog and astrophysicists Samaya Nissanke and Jean Michel Desert.