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The group continued to include an ever-revolving number of musicians, sometimes numbering up to ten at a time. On their third record, Jeffes took his cue from one of his father's sayings: "We wade in a sea of imperfections." 2017's The Imperfect Sea, although in the main self-composed, also features covers of Kraftwerk's "Franz Schubert," Simian Mobile Disco's "Wheels Within Wheels," and a reworking of Simon Jeffes' "Now Nothing." Penguin Cafe's fourth full-length, 2019's Handfuls of Night, was conceived after Greenpeace commissioned Jeffes to write four pieces of music about specific breeds of penguins. He then expanded this concept into an entire album, envisioned as a soundtrack to a world of anthropomorphic penguins. A Matter of Life... 2021, a remastered and updated version of the band's debut, including one re-recorded song, was released in 2022. Rain Before Seven..., a more upbeat Penguin Cafe album incorporating Afro-Cuban influences, while also paying tribute to the late pianist Harold Budd, appeared in 2023. ~ Bekki Bemrose & Paul Simpson, Rovi
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