There is a chapter on the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
This is the track most people will associate with the band.
The album this was from was released in 1978, and called 'Music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra'. Credit was given to Simon Jeffes. He was an acolyte of the composer John Cage.
The front cover of the album features a painting by Emily Young.
The follow up also featured Emily Young art work.
She was the inspiration for the early Pink Floyd song 'See Emily Play'.
The second album featured the track 'Telephone and Rubber Band', used in TV advertising.
The book explores the story of the "found harmonium". In 1982, Jeffes found it abandoned in a Kyoto side street while in Japan collaborating with Ryuichi Sakamoto. He picked it up the following day and took it to his apartment and then back home to London. It was then taken across the world. This piece was to do with found objects (objets trouvés).
There were connections with the new age music released by Windham Hill, and Brian Eno and Michael Nyman's music.
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