UK musical genius David Cunningham (The Flying Lizards) and NYC maverick Peter Gordon (Love of Life Orchestra)—two musicians who have been in contact since the late 1970s and have been active within the post-punk/avant-pop scene—hit it off while working on The Flying Lizards’ second album, *Fourth Wall*, resulting in *The Yellow Box*, a unique cult audio masterpiece where a postmodern experimental spirit intersects with pop playfulness.
Featuring legendary drummer Anton Fier—known for his work with The Feelies and The Lounge Lizards—and John Greaves, the master bassist from Henry Cow and Soft Heap. Recorded during sessions in Europe from 1981 to 1983, this collection showcases early sampling techniques that made full use of tape—predating the advent of digital samplers— prepared instruments to create an original fusion of deconstructed rhythms and reconstructed melodies. Blending field recordings, electronic sounds, saxophone, and poetry, the album reconstructs their fragmented past ideas and unreleased material through cut-up collage and and reconstructed through various sonic experiments—a post-punk experimental, industrial, dub, avant-garde jazz, minimal drone, pre-electronica, strange, unique, fresh, and dizzying miniature musical world that feels like it’s luring you into a labyrinth. Contains 17 tracks.
Julius Eastman “Stay On It,” Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke “Lifetime Of A Flower,” Suzanne Ciani “Improvisation On Four Sequences,” Slapp Happy “Sort Of,” Fred Frith “Guitar Solo / Fifty,” Jards Macalé “Jards Macalé,” Joyce “Passarinho Urbano,” Dinosaur “Kiss Me Again,” Marshall Allen “New Dawn,” Keith Hudson “Playing It Cool & Playing It Right” “Nuh Skin Up Dub”—the long-awaited 16th release from Week-End Records, the label launched by the Week-End Festival in Cologne, Germany, which continues to put out a carefully curated selection of deeply cool, passion-filled releases. While the price is quite high, this release is, as expected, another fantastic one. A true gem of a record. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)