This musicbreak presents a Virtual Concert with the Swiss band Yello. The name is a wordplay based on “a yelled Hello”. There is not much information about the band on the internet, except what Allmusic says:
- “The ambitious Swiss electronic duo Yello comprised vocalist/conceptualist Dieter Meier - a millionaire industrialist, professional gambler, and member of Switzerland's national golf team -- and composer/arranger Boris Blank. Meier, a former solo artist who also spent time with the group Fresh Colour, began collaborating with Blank in 1979, and the duo bowed with the single ‘I.T. Splash.’ After signing with the Residents' label, Ralph Records, Yello issued their 1980 debut LP, Solid Pleasure, which spawned the dance hit ‘Bostitch.’”
- “With 1981's Claro Que Si, Yello made its first forays into music video; their clip for the single ‘Pinball Cha Cha,’ directed by Meier, garnered considerable acclaim and in 1985 was selected as one of 32 works included in the Museum of Modern Art's Music Video Exhibition. Visual accompaniment remained a pivotal component of the duo's work after they signed to Elektra in 1983 for the LP You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess, as the videos for ‘I Love You’ and ‘Lost and Found’ received heavy airplay on MTV.”
- “1985's Stella proved to be Yello's commercial breakthrough: while the singles and videos ‘Desire’ and ‘Vicious Games’ found success upon their initial release, the duo enjoyed a delayed hit with the album track ‘Oh Yeah,’ which reached the U.S. singles chart after being prominently featured in the films Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Secret of My Success. After the remix project 1980-1985: The New Mix in Go, Yello recruited diva Shirley Bassey and ex-Associate Billy McKenzie for 1987's One Second.”
- “Despite the success of 1988's Flag, which contained the international hit ‘The Race,’ over the course of the next several years Yello grew increasingly involved with film projects: after scoring the comedy Nuns on the Run, Meier directed his own feature, 1990's Snowball. In 1991, the duo resurfaced with Baby, followed three years later by Zebra. 1995's Hands on Yello compiled reinterpretations of the group's songs by the likes of Moby, the Orb, and the Grid, while Pocket Universe, a collection of new material, appeared in 1997. Their tenth effort, Motion Picture, arrived only two years later, which was itself followed by 2003's The Eye, which featured Jade Davies on a number of tracks. Touch Yello, their 12th album, landed in 2009 and featured smooth jazz megastar Till Brönner on three selections. Incredibly the duo had never performed live in their long history, yet their 2016 album Toy was released amid news that they would undertake their first ever live performance in Berlin later in the same year.”
Wikipedia add about the music style:
- “Yello's sound is mainly characterised by unusual music samples, a heavy reliance on rhythm and Dieter Meier's dark crooning voice. Yello has been instrumental in spreading and developing the use of sampling, along with Art of Noise, Paul Hardcastle and Depeche Mode, especially in the construction of rhythm tracks, such as one of their signature tunes The Race from 1988.”
- “Boris Blank has taken a couple of vocal turns; on ‘Swing’ (from You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess) and ‘Blazing Saddles’ (from Flag), and guest vocalists have included Rush Winters (the first female diva to be featured on a Yello recording), Billy MacKenzie, Stina Nordenstam, Jade Davies, Shirley Bassey, Heidi Happy and FiFi Rong. The group has shared writing credit with MacKenzie, Winters and Happy.”
- “Yello rarely uses samples from previously released music; nearly every instrument has been sampled and re-engineered by Boris Blank, who over the years has built up an original sample library of over 100,000 named and categorised sounds.”
The association here is IR4 entertainment. Issues of the 4th industrial revolution is talked through in 9 blogs from UU 2017.mai.19 to UU 2017.juli.14. The concept of one musician and one performer can be very innovative, like Yazzo, Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell. In addition, having an industrialist, like Boris, in the band provides means to overcome some barriers in the music market. New IR4 tool for creating, , financing, producing, marketing and distributing enables even resourceless artists to create and compete in unexpected ways. Yello certainly provides a concept for IR4 entertainers.
Yello - Touch Yello - Virtual concert
https://youtu.be/-B0vepAb3WI
The association to Yello is IR4 entertainment. Issues of the 4th industrial revolution is talked through in 9 blogs from UU 2017.mai.19 to UU 2017.juli.14. The concept of one musician and one performer can be very innovative, like Yazzo, Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell. In addition, having an industrialist, like Boris, in the band provides means to overcome some barriers in the music market. New IR4 tool for creating, , financing, producing, marketing and distributing enables even resourceless artists to create and compete in unexpected ways. Yello certainly provides a concept for IR4 entertainers.
Playlist - Best of Yello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi6sgW_y7Uc&list=PLD3448632E452E7A3