The Penguin Cafe Orchestra

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra: a collective of performing musicians created by classically trained British guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes; Jeffs and cellist co-founder Helen Liebmann were core members throughout Jeffs life and a number of other musicians joined as the band grew and developed.
Not easy to categorize: ethnic music, particularly African styles, merged with more traditional Western sounds, kind of "modern semi-acoustic chamber music".

Complete discography including listening to the 6 releases of the original lineout  at allmusic
and at discogs, a lot of tracks at soundcloud

13 years on from Simon Jeffes dead his son Arthur started playing this music again - a new chapter to be followed on penguincafe.com