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Yello: Stella

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Label: Vertigo Records
Released: 1985.01.29
Time:
 40:58
Category: Synthpop
Producer(s): Yello
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.yello.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Desire (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:42
[2] Vicious Games (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:20
[3] Oh Yeah (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:05
[4] Desert Inn (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:30
[5] Stalakdrama (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:02
[6] Koladi-ola (B.Blank) - 2:55
[7] Domingo (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:30
[8] Sometimes [Dr. Hirsch] (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:33
[9] Let Me Cry (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:34
[10] Ciel Ouvert (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 5:20
[11] Angel No (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:06

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Boris Blank - Keyboards, Programming, Lead Vocals on [6], Background Vocals on [1,3,7-9], Recording, Engineer, Mixing, Re-Mastering, Producer
Dieter Meier - Lead & Background Vocals, Recording, Engineer, Producer

Beat Ash - Hi-Hat on [1,11]
Rene Chico Hablas - Guitar on [1,2,4,6,7]
Rush Winters - Vocals on [2,11]
Petia Kaufman - Glass Harp *
Dianne Brill - Voice
Annie Hogan - Piano

Tom Thiel - Recording, Engineer
Ian Tregoning - Mixing
Ernst Gamper - Cover Design, Design
Ursli Webber - Re-Mastering

* - Although Petia Kaufman Is Credited As Playing Glass Harp On The Album, Her Contribution Was Not Used On The Final Mix.

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Recorded and mixed at Yello Studio, partly remixed at Hartmann Digital Studio.



Yes, Stella is the album that includes Yello's biggest hit, "Oh Yeah." It's also their best single LP, an excellent production throughout by Boris Blank, from the theatric instrumentals "Stalakdrama" and "Ciel Ouvert" to the frenetic pitched percussion on "Let Me Cry." As well, Dieter Meier proves he's at his best vocally, whether it's the seamy side of life on "Desert Inn" or an exaggerated leer for "Koladi-ola." Both hit their peak on the same album, and Stella is a complete joy for fans of the vocal or production side of the group.

John Bush - All Music Guide



Yello is the Swiss maximalist cousin to the dry stark minimalism of Kratwerk. Founded by conceptual artist, painter and writer Dieter Meier and the lovely named sonic genius Boris Blank, they continue to churn out lush dramatic ear movies using the broadest of brushes. Blank is self-taught non-musican, but a master of equalizing and space and the daft playful collage, juxtaposing odd samples. After a few albums, he finally tamed his Fairlight keyboard and the SSL mixer to an seemingly hyperreal level, making even Frankie Goes to Hollywood producer Trevor Horn tremble in envy.

Thematically, and contrary to the bleak black and white postpunk and electropop of their opponents, Yello dived full on into the good life, emulation a Raymond Chandler-like universe of postmodern desire, crime and seduction in cars, bars, and aircraft with a distinct Cannes yacht feel. A cosmopolitan Memphis-styled mix of crooning, latin percussion, guitar hysterics, b-movie horn riffs, divas and field recordings integrated to make perfect pop singles and clubby yet stylish kitchy 12″ vinyl. In the middle of it all was Dieters vocal, a tuneless dark patinated instrument better suited for storytelling than for singing.

After “Stella”, they infiltrated the world of advertising jingles and soundtracks and became their own cliche, copying themselves endlessly like a electropop equivalent to the Stones. It´s still a nice formula, but the new not so mad adventures feels more like a souped up Audi TT than pieces of art today. Use their app and make your own Yello music now, or take Stella for a spin.

Morten Vammen - 22. April, 2015



Stella is the fourth studio album by the Swiss electronic band Yello, first released in Germany, Switzerland and Austria on 29 January 1985, and in the UK and US in March 1985. It was the first album made by the band without founder member Carlos Perón, and with his departure the remaining duo of Boris Blank and Dieter Meier began to move away from experimental electronic sounds towards a more commercial synthpop and cinematic soundtrack style. As well as becoming the first album ever by a Swiss group to top the Swiss album chart, it was the band's breakthrough album internationally, helped by the success of the song "Oh Yeah", which gained the band worldwide attention the following year after it was prominently featured in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and then two years later in The Secret of My Success.

The album was generally well received at the time of its release by the UK music press. Record Mirror enthused, "This picks up where [You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess] left off, taking its themes and mashing them up, pointing them in new, exciting directions... An album of moods and atmospheres, it must be listened to at maximum volume in a very dark room. Bliss." Sounds declared that "Yello's wry, pulsating melodramas lavish themselves on Stella in a sensuous escapade, leaving no room for faint hearts or lovers. Each haunting episode reeks of a sublime suspense with a liberal coating of electric eccentricity. Mellow moods are savaged by impassioned cries and discordant desires as humour seeps from vital pores." Melody Maker was less impressed, saying, "Their slick marriage... no, make it a steamy affair, between accessible splicing montage methods and sophisticated disco has the necessary balance of artifice and sweet melody, crisp danceateria [sic] moves and conceptual laziness (posing as artful dodging) that could conceivably pull the wool over people's eyes... Post-Fairlight, Yello are clever, sometimes too clever-clever, occasionally jarring as the montaging lays code upon codas."

Reviewing all six reissued Yello albums in 2005, Mojo stated that Stella "saw further refinements in sound [to You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess] and a more pronounced Euro-pop agenda, but however slick tracks like 'Oh Yeah' or 'Vicious Games' might be, it's never entirely comfortable listening". Allmusic believed that Stella was Yello's "best single LP, an excellent production throughout by Boris Blank, from the theatric instrumentals 'Stalakdrama' and 'Ciel Ouvert' to the frenetic pitched percussion on 'Let Me Cry'. As well, Dieter Meier proves he's at his best vocally, whether it's the seamy side of life on 'Desert Inn' or an exaggerated leer for 'Koladi-ola'. Both hit their peak on the same album, and Stella is a complete joy for fans of the vocal or production side of the group."

Wikipedia.org



"STELLA saw further refinements in sound and a more pronounced Euro-pop agenda..."

Mojo (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5



"Mit drei innovativen Alben auf der Haben-Seite erfüllte das Schweizer Duo mit "Stella" weiter virtuos sein künstlerisches Soll. Dieter Meier, Mann großer Sprachgesten, drückt "Desire" oder "Oh Yeah" den Stempel oft nur in lautmalerischen Vignetten auf; Tüftler Boris Blank komponiert vielschichtige Klangge- mälde zwischen technoidem Drive und Atmosphäre. Vier Bonustracks machen "Stella" noch lohnender."

C. Böhm in Audio 12/05
 

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