GoGo Penguin have been internationally hailed as electrifying live performers, innovative soundtrack composers, and as a collective who channel electronic and club culture atmospheres alongside, minimalist jazz and rock influences to create music that pulses and flows from the dancefloor to meditative inner-worlds, transporting us into brand new realms.
Their new album GGP/ RMX (Blue Note Lab/May 7) is a brilliant, vivid, reimagination of their self-defining masterwork, GoGo Penguin (released last June on Blue Note Records) and features an array of the world’s sharpest artist-producers and remixers, including remixes from Squarepusher, Cornelius, Machinedrum, Yosi Horikawa, Rone, Nathan Fake, 808 State, Clark and James Holden who DJs tonight,
GoGo Penguin are:
Chris Illingworth – piano
Nick Blacka – bass
Rob Turner – drums
Joe Reiser – sound
“The Radiohead of British jazz” (Line of Best Fit)
“Powered by fluttering, junglist drums, slithering bass lines and an increasing bank of Eno-esque digital manipulations. Hypnotic stuff.” (The Guardian)
