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Penguin Café Orchestra: an English Art Ensemble of Chicago

Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 16 October 1976

ONE OF the constant pleasures of hearing new music for the first time is the range of emotions it can evoke: surprise, euphoria, disgust, enlightenment, rage, apathy. These are standard responses.

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