Let's review the album as a die hard Yello fan and as music freak. After the fantastic Yello happening,movie and afterparty,I came back in my hotel with the new Yello cd. My brother went to a casino so I was alone in my hotelroom with the new Yello at 03:00 in the morning. Of course I wanted to hear the new Yello sound 2009. I was waiting almost 5 year fot it. So I started listening on my bed with my laptop and headphones. With the fresh memories of the Virtual concert and speaking with Boris and Dieter, it was an awesome special experience. Now 5 days later ,I heard the cd I think 2 times a day ,I think it's time for a personal review. It's personal,so don't kill me if ya don't agree.;-) Artwork cd : The best ever! It gives Yello style and respect. 1.The Expert. A great opening. A fantastic typical Yello song that reminds me of the best songs of Zebra. Not really surprising,but it give me the Yello feeling from the start. 2.You better hide. The beginning reminds me at Capri Calling from Baby. The funny thing is that in the beautiful ballad,(it's really beautiful) I miss Billy Mackenzie vocals. It's like it's been written for him,but he isn't there anymore. Heidi does do a great job,but still.... 3.Out of dawn This song is the perfect example why I like Yello. It has the typical Dieter vocals lyrics and vocals. It's catching and warm,with a simple music composition ans funny sounds. 4.Bostich reflected Funny ,and a very surprising intro. I like it but, not even a shadow of the original Bostich 5.Till tomorrow This track overblown my expectations. Somehow I always hoped for track like this. And now,..it's here.Even better than I expected. It reminds me at Dave Stewards : Lilly was here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhSx8uKdD5o Only then better and more atmospheric. Not that Touchy,though. 6.Tangier blue Also one of my favourits.New sounds and wierd cords. But the composition and sounds are great. Works good on lsd this music.;-) 7.Part Love. Ahum ahum says Dieter. And then he start the song the way that reminds me of Heavy whispers. But thats all,because this song is quite save,neutral and easy.Not a song that's going the be a classic. 8.Friday smile. Also an Yello song where you've been waiting for. Dieter on a high level. But the composition with the nice rythm is doing it all. I love the reverse .."zzzzZZip and ffffFFT" sounds in it. 9.Kiss in Blue. And again Boris sings! Boris singing with autotune makes him the best autotune singer.;-) A lovely sweet song with an perfect melodies for Heidi. Very good! 10. Vertical Vision. This is why I always liked those instrumental tracks from Yello. You never know what's gonna hit you. Like this song,... And still,..that typical Yello sound. 11. Trackless sleep Ah! Boris needs no autotune afterall!? No kidding,this track is also one of the best tracks on this cd. I sing it all day long ,and this is the only track with a bit latin feeling. A very "goodfeel" track with good melodys. 12.Stay Hmmm... Some parts of the song are okay,but somehow I skip it . And,..I really tried. 13.Electric Hipsters delay and Point Blank and now we have Electric. God I love this jazz (is it?)instrumentals. For me this song could last 7 or 8 minutes. Very... Boris!! Very... Nice! 14.Talka Makan. Almost every Yello cd has an ambient track. This one also. But after one minuut I have enough of this song. Sorry,but this is the worst Yello ambient song for me ever . The cd ends after 13 tracks for me. And after 13 tracks it's a surprising good CD. The 2 Swiss man are on age know. You can hear that they are not into wild and experimental things anymore. But they give some class,style and the typical Yellosound in return. With some new jazzy elements and accents they totaly fit in 2009. However I think Heidi Happy wasn't the best choice for Yello. She is into other kinds of music ,and that's something what you can hear on some songs.She has not much of connection with the Yello music. Till Bronner is a special case .A very good choice! The songs with him are high qualitity and Till tomorrow is going to be a classic. Thank you Yello. + Jazzy new sounds + Boris sings + Till Bronner!! + Creative - Heidi - They left the latin behind.(Exept Trackless sleep) - Where is the (real) slow ambient track? -- Arno Natte-Trillian Miles Social: http://www.facebook.com/arno.natte http://arno-natte.hyves.nl/ Personal music compositions: http://www.myspace.com/trilliano http://www.last.fm/music/trillian+miles Composed voor tv: http://www.karma.tv/ Composed for radio: http://www.purejingles.com/ Remixes : http://soundcloud.com/trillian-miles My album on Itunes music: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=317552080&s=1...
I've had the new album for a day, so I thought I'd join in the fun! Overall I enjoyed the album (I gave it 5/5 at http://www.discogs.com/release/1951753 ). I won't comment on every track (as just writing "great track" is a bit obvious). The CD seems to be missing some credits. It sounds like Heidi's vocals at the end of The Expert, and Dieter at the end of Till Tomorrow. Good to see (hear) Beat Ash is back. All we need now is Chico Hablas and Ernst Gamper and we'll have a proper reunion! (If we ask nicely, Carlos might even come!) The Expert - I first heard the album on my work computer at the end of the day (on tinny speakers) while doing paperwork, so missed the fun of the introduction - I didn't hear it properly the first time, so I had a fun surprise when I got home. Out Of Dawn - the low string parts in the middle reminded me of Sweet Thunder sped up. Bostich - starts of well, with a good introduction, then it just fizzles out as Bostich starts. It sounds like that introduction was just pasted on for no good reason, although it is the same tempo as the rest of Bostich, and there is an electronic "Everybody" at 0:18. The main section of the song is a bit of a disappointment - nothing like the original! Till Tomorrow - I think we'll have to add this to our list of "song titles that contain the artist's name" (along with "Le Secret Farida", "Santiago" and "Point Blank")! Just how did Till Brönner do that flugelhorn slide at 2:13? Till must be one of the best things about this album. Part Love - I had been wondering what the title referred to, until I heard the line "this is your love part" (part = acting role) Vertical Vision - The final muffled chord reminded me of "Tool In Rose" which also contains deliberately muted parts. I found myself humming the bass line to this while going to my car today - fortunately no-one was around (but now you all know *blush*). Takla Makan - On my first listen (at home) I happened to walk past the CD player and noticed it was already up to 7 minutes into the track - it hadn't seemed that long. I'm curious about Dorothee's credit for 'flute' - the instruments played sound more like recorders. I also got Carlos Perón's latest offering (El Nuevo (Carlos Perón vs Solar Lords): Pitigrilli) in the same parcel. According to their MySpace page it "sounds like Yello should sound like". Well, I'm glad Yello doesn't sound like this - all the tracks sounded the same, and it concluded with a medley of all the tracks performed live, where it becomes even more obvious that the tracks all sound the same. I don't think this will be getting much time in my CD player! Mark P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "They offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go, and so I had them send me back to last Thursday night, so I could pay my phone bill on time." (Weird Al Yankovic, "Everything You Know Is Wrong")
OK, They are LOW frequency terrorists, I just put a new woofer in the left channel and now I cannot play it loud!!! But afterall it is a funky start of a journey of 30 years of Yello in 12 traks ( a little bit too short)... And the last one is a meditation around the world in almost 9 minutes. Have fun... ----- Origineel bericht ----- Van: Mark Pulley <mrpulley@lizzy.com.au> Datum: dinsdag, oktober 13, 2009 14:44 Onderwerp: Re: [Yello] Touch cd review Aan: "The moon: beautiful. The sun: even more beautiful." <yello@mailman.xmission.com>
I've had the new album for a day, so I thought I'd join in the fun! Overall I enjoyed the album (I gave it 5/5 at http://www.discogs.com/release/1951753 ). I won't comment on every track (as just writing "great track" is
a bit obvious).
The CD seems to be missing some credits. It sounds like Heidi's vocals at the end of The Expert, and Dieter at the end of Till Tomorrow.
Good to see (hear) Beat Ash is back. All we need now is Chico Hablas
and Ernst Gamper and we'll have a proper reunion! (If we ask nicely,
Carlos might even come!)
The Expert - I first heard the album on my work computer at the end of the day (on tinny speakers) while doing paperwork, so missed the fun
of the introduction - I didn't hear it properly the first time, so I
had a fun surprise when I got home.
Out Of Dawn - the low string parts in the middle reminded me of Sweet
Thunder sped up.
Bostich - starts of well, with a good introduction, then it just fizzles out as Bostich starts. It sounds like that introduction was
just pasted on for no good reason, although it is the same tempo as
the rest of Bostich, and there is an electronic "Everybody" at 0:18.
The main section of the song is a bit of a disappointment - nothing
like the original!
Till Tomorrow - I think we'll have to add this to our list of "song
titles that contain the artist's name" (along with "Le Secret Farida", "Santiago" and "Point Blank")! Just how did Till Brönner do that flugelhorn slide at 2:13? Till must be one of the best things about
this album.
Part Love - I had been wondering what the title referred to, until I
heard the line "this is your love part" (part = acting role)
Vertical Vision - The final muffled chord reminded me of "Tool In Rose" which also contains deliberately muted parts. I found myself humming the bass line to this while going to my car today - fortunately no-one was around (but now you all know *blush*).
Takla Makan - On my first listen (at home) I happened to walk past the CD player and noticed it was already up to 7 minutes into the track -
it hadn't seemed that long. I'm curious about Dorothee's credit for
'flute' - the instruments played sound more like recorders.
I also got Carlos Perón's latest offering (El Nuevo (Carlos Perón vs
Solar Lords): Pitigrilli) in the same parcel. According to their MySpace page it "sounds like Yello should sound like". Well, I'm glad
Yello doesn't sound like this - all the tracks sounded the same, and
it concluded with a medley of all the tracks performed live, where it
becomes even more obvious that the tracks all sound the same. I don't
think this will be getting much time in my CD player!
Mark P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "They offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go, and so I had them send me back to last Thursday night, so I could pay my phone bill on time." (Weird Al Yankovic, "Everything You Know Is Wrong")
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"LOW frequency terrorists.." Good name for a band.;-) 2009/10/13 <luistervink@casema.nl>
OK, They are LOW frequency terrorists, I just put a new woofer in the left channel and now I cannot play it loud!!!
But afterall it is a funky start of a journey of 30 years of Yello in 12 traks ( a little bit too short)... And the last one is a meditation around the world in almost 9 minutes.
Have fun...
----- Origineel bericht ----- Van: Mark Pulley <mrpulley@lizzy.com.au> Datum: dinsdag, oktober 13, 2009 14:44 Onderwerp: Re: [Yello] Touch cd review Aan: "The moon: beautiful. The sun: even more beautiful." < yello@mailman.xmission.com>
I've had the new album for a day, so I thought I'd join in the fun! Overall I enjoyed the album (I gave it 5/5 at http://www.discogs.com/release/1951753 ). I won't comment on every track (as just writing "great track" is
a bit obvious).
The CD seems to be missing some credits. It sounds like Heidi's vocals at the end of The Expert, and Dieter at the end of Till Tomorrow.
Good to see (hear) Beat Ash is back. All we need now is Chico Hablas
and Ernst Gamper and we'll have a proper reunion! (If we ask nicely,
Carlos might even come!)
The Expert - I first heard the album on my work computer at the end of the day (on tinny speakers) while doing paperwork, so missed the fun
of the introduction - I didn't hear it properly the first time, so I
had a fun surprise when I got home.
Out Of Dawn - the low string parts in the middle reminded me of Sweet
Thunder sped up.
Bostich - starts of well, with a good introduction, then it just fizzles out as Bostich starts. It sounds like that introduction was
just pasted on for no good reason, although it is the same tempo as
the rest of Bostich, and there is an electronic "Everybody" at 0:18.
The main section of the song is a bit of a disappointment - nothing
like the original!
Till Tomorrow - I think we'll have to add this to our list of "song
titles that contain the artist's name" (along with "Le Secret Farida", "Santiago" and "Point Blank")! Just how did Till Brönner do that flugelhorn slide at 2:13? Till must be one of the best things about
this album.
Part Love - I had been wondering what the title referred to, until I
heard the line "this is your love part" (part = acting role)
Vertical Vision - The final muffled chord reminded me of "Tool In Rose" which also contains deliberately muted parts. I found myself humming the bass line to this while going to my car today - fortunately no-one was around (but now you all know *blush*).
Takla Makan - On my first listen (at home) I happened to walk past the CD player and noticed it was already up to 7 minutes into the track -
it hadn't seemed that long. I'm curious about Dorothee's credit for
'flute' - the instruments played sound more like recorders.
I also got Carlos Perón's latest offering (El Nuevo (Carlos Perón vs
Solar Lords): Pitigrilli) in the same parcel. According to their MySpace page it "sounds like Yello should sound like". Well, I'm glad
Yello doesn't sound like this - all the tracks sounded the same, and
it concluded with a medley of all the tracks performed live, where it
becomes even more obvious that the tracks all sound the same. I don't
think this will be getting much time in my CD player!
Mark P.
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-- Arno Natte-Trillian Miles Social: http://www.facebook.com/arno.natte http://arno-natte.hyves.nl/ Personal music compositions: http://www.myspace.com/trilliano http://www.last.fm/music/trillian+miles Composed voor tv: http://www.karma.tv/ Composed for radio: http://www.purejingles.com/ Remixes : http://soundcloud.com/trillian-miles My album on Itunes music: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=317552080&s=1...
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