Published on January 12th, 2016 | by Dr. Jerry Doby

UK trio GoGo Penguin to perform at Coachella 2016

GOGO PENGUIN SET TO PERFORM AT 2016 COACHELLA FESTIVAL; MERCURY PRIZE NOMINATED UK TRIO ANNOUNCES JAN. 16 & 18 NYC SHOWS AHEAD OF FEB. 5 BLUE NOTE DEBUT MAN MADE OBJECT

GoGo Penguin—the UK trio of drummer Rob Turner, double bassist Nick Blacka and pianist Chris Illingworth—have been announced as part of the 2016 line-up of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival which takes place April 15-17 and April 22-24. The band has also added a second NYC show at Mercury Lounge on January 18 following their NYC concert debut January 16 at (le) poisson rouge as part of the 2016 NYC Winter Jazzfest. Watch a live video of GoGo Penguin performing their new single “All Res” at Union Chapel in London. Watch the “All Res” official videoHERE.

After being shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize for their album v2.0, GoGo Penguin is set to make their Blue Note Records debut with the February 5 release of Man Made Object, an album that finds the band taking their mash-up of minimalist piano themes, deeply propulsive bass lines and electronica-inspired drums to new heights. While they draw on a heady brew of influences including Brian Eno, John Cage, Massive Attack and Aphex Twin, 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.”

Man Made Object is available for pre-order on iTunes or Amazon. Stream the album’s lead single “All Res.”

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Dr. Jerry Doby Editor-in-Chief of The Hype Magazine, Media and SEO Consultant, Journalist, Ph.D. and retired combat vet. 2023 recipient of The President's Lifetime Achievement Award. Partner at THM Media Group. Member of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, the United States Press Agency and ForbesBLK.