Erased Tapes are proud to re-issue The Red Book by Penguin Cafe June 2026, with an expanded vinyl track list which now includes the digital-only “And Yet…” plus two tracks from the limited-edition Umbrella EP. This new edition will be available on limited translucent vinyl and CD, both with updated art from Studio Torsten Posselt utilising the original drawing from renowned British sculptor and Simon Jeffes’ partner Emily Young. The Red Book was originally released in 2014 to critical and fan acclaim. “The name The Red Book comes from the book by Karl Jung of the same name. The book is about, among other things, the way our subconscious interacts with and intrudes into our daily lives. I thought this fitted what we were trying to achieve with the second album quite neatly — namely, exploring musical worlds that are at once both familiar and strange. There is another meaning which is that the main mastered disc you end up with, the one from which all other copies will be made, is called the Red Book Master — so somewhere at some point there will be a disc on which will be written “The Red Book — Red Book Master.” The tracks on the album all fall on some point along a scale going from gently Apollonian at the one end to perhaps a bit more Dionysian at the other. For our purposes this would be the ‘spacey’ end — with tunes like 1420 and Aurora, and the ‘imaginary folk’ end — with tracks like Odeon, Radio Bemba and Black Hibiscus. The tracks between these extremes are, perhaps with Silent Sun in particular, an attempt to blend these two parts.” Tracklist: Aurora Solaris Black Hibiscus Bluejay Radio Bemba Catania 1420 And Yet… Moonbo Odeon (The Roaring of a) Silent Sun Close Encounter (Bonus Track) The Track of a Dull Sun (Bonus Track) CD is in mini LP-style sleeve with insert.
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