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Jazz 07/12/2015

Mercury Prize Nominated UK Trio Gogo Penguin To Release Blue Note Debut Feb. 5

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Mercury Prize Nominated UK Trio Gogo Penguin To Release Blue Note Debut Feb. 5
New York, NY (Top40 Charts) It's been an astonishing couple of years for GoGo Penguin, the UK trio of drummer Rob Turner, double bassist Nick Blacka and pianist Chris Illingworth. Their trademark mash-up of minimalist piano themes, deeply propulsive bass lines and electronica-inspired drums has seen their 2014 album v2.0 shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and fuelled their exhilarating live shows from their hometown of Manchester to Montreal and Paris to London. Drawing on a heady brew of influences from Brian Eno, John Cage, Massive Attack and Aphex Twin, GoGo Penguin has created a brave new sound that is wholly their own.

In the midst of all this GoGo Penguin has signed with iconic jazz label Blue Note Records and are set to release their label debut Man Made Object on February 5, 2016. The album's lead single "All Res" was premiered on Apple Music's Beats 1 yesterday, and the video for "All Res" was released today. The band will make their New York City live debut on January 16 at the 2016 NYC Winter Jazzfest.

Man Made Object is the sound of a band confidently pursuing their own path. "The title is partly inspired by my fascination with ideas of robotics, transhumanism and human augmentation," says pianist Illingworth, a statement that begs for elaboration. "We're recreating electronic music on acoustic instruments. It's like a man-made object that has become humanized and it seemed like a good album title, one that also means something different to each of us, and hopefully to each listener."

Indeed, although they're predominately an acoustic piano trio, GoGo Penguin's music draws from many areas of contemporary electronic music, one where you can hear arcade game bleeps, glitchy breakbeats, hypnotic Aphex-style melodies, grinding bass lines and a rumbling low-end. It has been described as "acoustic electronica", a term which perfectly sums up their modus operandi. "Many of the songs on this album started out as electronic compositions that I made on sequencing software like Logic or Ableton," says drummer Turner. "I'll then play it to the band and we'll find ways of replicating it acoustically."

And it is that ability to synthesis the seemingly disparate influences of electronica, jazz, and classical music into their own unique musical DNA that gives GoGo Penguin such an instantly recognizable and compelling sound.






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