Yello

The formation of the famous Swiss band Yello was started by Boris Blank and Carlos Peron. Boris was a generator of music ideas that he made real with the help of various domestic tools available, while Carlos was a talented musicians and sound engineer. Together, they arranged a professional studio to conduct their sound experiments and realize their nonstandard solutions. Both were into progressive approaches and avant-garde art as it was clearly reflected by the music they produced. Yello was finally completed after they were joined by another unordinary person, Dieter Meier, a wealthy man, gambler, movie director, writer and journalist. Moreover, he used to be a member of the Switzerland golf national team.

To record the debut album, Yello signed a contract with the American company Ralph. Solid Pleasure hit the stores in 1980 to make a pleasant surprise to the public with its dance flavored core. The most prominent song it featured was Bostich. The band developed their skills, which was proved by the subsequent 1982 release of Claro Que Si, preferable before its predecessor for its better considered arranging. Both studio works were united by electronic sounding with a rich variety of effects and samples becoming the trademark of the team. Yello achieved a breakthrough with their third album, You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (1983), a record to earn the musicians the worldwide popularity. Experts said a lot of good words about the performers who successfully tried to make up a singular atmosphere possible thank to unique music and quite peculiar lyrics abundant in unexpected images. The perfect examples of their efforts were I Love You, and Lost Again. By that moment, the band was being torn apart by the inner conflict. Peron did not like his secondary role of executor of someone’s ideas. Meier was free at developing the concept while Blank was responsible for musical realization of Meier’s ideas. This inequity led to Peron leaving Yello. The loss appeared easy to swallow as it was showcased by the release of Stella (1985) right after the lineup reduction. The record became the smashing hit. The musicians stepped back from dance patterns and preferred making an epic and sophisticated piece of music.

After that, Yello released a collection of remixes of their own songs in 1986 and went to the studio with the view to prepare another album. The next long player was issued in 1987 already. Titled One Second, it was exactly the evidence of how many faceted the music by Yellow could be, and set the direction for the musicians to follow with their new releases. The perfection of this work made the next album, Flag (1988), much anticipated. The duet demonstrated their best skills in maintaining their own style with addition of all contemporary tendencies changing fast. The sensational track The Race reserved the band’s high positions in charts of many countries. To the admiration of their supporters and envy of their competitors, Yello remained a big figure in the music world and continued a highly productive studio activity. In the nineties, the group retained the tradition of regular recording of new albums for their fans. The performance was as high as always before, but the ideas lacked freshness. In the new millennium, Yello committed themselves mostly to writing soundtracks to TV shows and movies. In 2005 they released the new editions of the first albums.