It’s a perfect conjunction. In 2011 when this was released, Erased Tapes was on the up as the defining label of the new post-classical movement thanks to releases by the likes of Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm. Arthur Jeffes was in the process of building on the legacy of his late father Simon’s Penguin Cafe Orchestra, which had been a precursor to Erased Tapes and their ilk in bringing together minimalist composition, classical orchestration, folk and other elements outside the formality of the concert hall. The first album by the younger’s Jeffe’s Penguin Cafe is by no means a throwback to PCO: its production is distinctly modernist with electronica and dub influences, there’s less whimsy and more instant emotional heft. But it still takes similar elements of circling acoustic motifs and melodies, a sense of the pastoral and meditative, a primal groove underlying the meditative nature of it all…it’s music that exists very much in the here and now, but also feels like a waymark in the passing of history.