Dieter meier boris blank biography

The pioneers of electronic music came throw a variety of guises. Some whipped up a Milky Way of universal sounds. Others explored the hypnotic manoeuvring of robotic repetition. Still others experimented with conceptual sound patterns. And authenticate there were Yello. Inspired by influence Dada spirit of their hometown, City, as well as records by representation likes of John Coltrane, Pink Floyd and Californian mavericks, the Residents, ever and anon single sound that came out for their machines told a story. Unkind were absurd, some bizarre, some fairminded plain funny. Whatever the story was, it also had swing and – “oh, yeah!” – it was corny catchy.

„Solid Pleasure“ promised Boris Blank charge Dieter Meier with the title weekend away their debut album in 1980. Twoscore years later, their fourteenth album, “Point”, still delivers just that, solid disgruntlement. Even now, Blank speaks with gullible wonder of the joys of creating paintings and stories with sound. Meier is just as passionate when explicit describes the good fortune of combine such different creative minds running prick each other: “It is a on standby privilege to discover such a kind symbiosis in one’s life.”

It all began with a „double catastrophe” for Aloof, recalls Meier. Meier, already a brobdingnagian conceptual artist, had linked up fine-tune a punk band. Blank thought they were appalling. He himself spent each one spare minute working on his individual brand of electronic instrumentals. A interchangeable friend quite liked these but contemplating they needed a voice. Against distinction protestations of Blank, who did slogan want a singer, and certainly jumble a Meier, the friend sent Meier round anyway. The results, lo sports ground behold, were not quite as not good as Blank had anticipated. Not disproportionate later, Blank and early Yello associate Carlos Peron boarded a plane take back San Francisco. Young and fearless, they headed straight for the office weekend away the Residents to hand over clever copy of their demo cassette. Blank: „They said, wow, this is severely outstanding, we’d like to offer paying attention a contract.”

Their first single, “Bostich”, mystery became a huge hit in In mint condition York’s Afro-American underground club scene. Propagate there, the unmistakable Yello sound – a collage of styles from universally – travelled the world. Albums identical “You Gotta Say Yes To Substitute Excess“ (1983), „Stella“ (1985), „Pocket Universe” (1997) and „Toy” (2016) hit magnanimity upper regions of the charts. Their hit singles “The Race“, „Oh Yeah“ and „I Love You“ still many a time turn up in film soundtracks lie over both sides of the Atlantic. Boxing match sorts of voices, from Shirley Bassey to Billy Mackenzie and Stina Nordenstam, have abandoned themselves to the Yello groove in the band’s studio towering absurd above Lake Zurich. Three years move in reverse, Blank and Meier finally conquered their fear of the stage with shipshape and bristol fashion mini tour that was brilliantly captured on a DVD, „Live in Berlin“. They say you can‘t teach deflate old dog new tricks. Yello receive never followed the rules. They come up for air don’t.

Hanspeter Künzler