2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
"Kings of sound" - that's what their fans call them. The Swiss group Yello is an outstanding figure in the world history of the development of new-wave electronic style. It appeared in the 67th year of the last century thanks to the composer Boris Blank, who initially simply recorded his own game (just don’t laugh) on kitchen utensils. As Lewis Carroll put it, “mad people are smarter than everyone else,” which is not far from the truth, given that all geniuses are “a little bit of that.”
History
Once a talented guy met sound engineer Carlos Peron, who appreciated the uniqueness of Boris' creative discoveries. Then, finally, their own recording studio was equipped. In 1978, friends went to San Francisco to get acquainted with The Residents, whose work was an example for them. Then they returned to their homeland, where they met Dieter Mayer, the third member of the Yello group. The new acquaintance was a man with a we althypast: came from a family of great we alth; dad married him to an aristocrat, and the guy ran away from home to live the way he wants. Breaking out of the "golden cage", Dieter went into journalism, after which he began to write children's books, moreover, he managed to work as a director and participate in the Swiss golf team.
Debut
Mayer became the last cog in this trio construction, and in the 80s, with the help of the American label Ralph, the first full-length album of Yello called Solid Pleasure was presented to the world! It contained quite catchy tracks: Bostich, Eternal Legs and Night Flanger, and jokey Coast to Polka and Downtown Samba. The music was clearly influenced by Jean-Michel Jarre, Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream.
A year later, the Claro Que Si album was released, which was technically more mature.
Even back then, Yello had established themselves as masters of semple art, taking listeners on a galactic journey through the sonic universe. Curious critics also couldn't help noticing that the lyrics are teeming with all sorts of bright characters - femme fatales, Interpol employees, desperate racers and other heroes of our time.
Popularity
The next vinyl, You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess, brought the band worldwide fame and appealed even to scrupulous and meticulous music critics. The group's songs Yello Lost Again and I Love You took the top lines of the charts, and the word game against the background of electronic music immersed the audience in a specialatmosphere. The fan base grew exponentially as the album sold well.
Change
Blank was and remained the leader of the "Yellows", so it was he who dictated the conditions to other members of the group. Carlos Peron was tired of being under constant pressure from someone else's authority, so he left the team. In the new Stella album, the music of the Yello group sparkled with new colors, but not at all because the line-up has changed somewhat. Blank just came up with the idea to record a disc with the good old instruments and a female voice. The sound turned out to be quite sophisticated and at the same time lively and energetic. Percussionist Beat Ash and guitarist Chico Hablas added colors to the music of electronic musicians, and viscous, like honey, compositions proved to the world that Yello is not only a disco “tit-tit” for jerking limbs. Then came the album The New Mix in One Go 1980-1985, which included reworked hits from previous years.
One Second
The new vinyl was recorded with Shirley Bassey and Billy McKenzie (ex-Associates) and, according to respected critics, is the best brainchild of the Yellows of all time. Apparently, the musicians themselves had a similar opinion, so all subsequent work was based precisely on the concept of One Second.
New trend
The follow-up album of '88 called Flag was a slight return to the roots of the sound, but various elements of the latest genres were added at the same time. Probably due to this, the song TheRace is firmly entrenched at the top of the world charts. The title track, Tied Up, features a Santana-style guitar, against which an explosive sound wave spiced with bongs rages. The vocals in many songs tell about refined romance, giving way to the penetrating play of black and white keys, and in some places you can hear the strumming of the Russian balalaika and the singing of the Don Cossacks. On top of that, at times the tunes of African peoples appeared in the compositions, which made the sound even more unique.
Quiet times
At the beginning of the new decade, the musicians were actively working on creating soundtracks for the film comedy "Nuns on the Run", so the cheerful compositions from the film belong to the Yello group. The albums of these years sound in the standard and well-established Yellow format, and there are quite a few new elements in them. At the same time, several vinyls with remixes were released and there were works on creating music for films.
In the 2000s, several undistinguished albums and new versions of old hits followed, as well as recordings with musicians such as Til Brenner, Heidi Happy, Dorothy Oberlinger and Beat Ash. The last album called Toy was released on September 30, 2016, and on October 28, a large-scale event took place - the group gave a live concert, for the first time in the history of Yello.
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