Yello - Pocket Universe - 1997

No nos cabe duda, Boris Blank es un genio musical que no ha sido justamente reconocido, un mago del sonido.Y Dieter Meier, su compañero de aventuras en Yello, desde sus letras, sus conceptos y sus vocales es el aderezo perfecto para un universo sonoro sugerente y único.Elegantes y divertidos como siempre, "marchosos" y ambientales en partes iguales, en "Pocket Universe", su noveno álbum de estudio, nos transportan sonoramente a los paisajes inaccesibles del espacio exterior y seguidamente nos bajan a tierra con ritmos electrónicos bailables que se alternan con otros sonidos terrestres y multiculturales.
Digamos que en cierta forma "Pocket Universe" es un cóctel de Artur C.Clarke y Carl Sagan con discotecas de Ibiza y tambores tribales.¿Que pensaría una raza extraterrestre que recibiera un disco así de Yello incluído en una sonda no tripulada? Me gustaría saberlo...
El álbum arranca con un emocionante "Solar driftwood" y cierra con la también impresionante "Beyond Mirrors", ambas piezas grandilocuentes y espaciales en las que la voz de Meier...no se queda atrás:

SOLAR DRIFTWOOD/ BEYOND MIRRORS

SOLAR DRIFTWOOD

The Big Bang. 

The ultimate hero of low frequency. The divine intergalactical bass drum connecting 

the tribes of our solar system. 

If we could communicate from our tiny piece of solar driftwood into another galaxy

what would we say?

We can send out pictures, symbols, chemical formulas or language.

The magic of music is a sign of consciousness that could be understood on far-flung

worlds millions of lightyears from our horizon.

Music is an interstellar language from a highly insignificant planet one of nine in

our system which sails through time and space till the next one, the next inevitable

Big Bang...

BEYOND MIRRORS

The age of science has failed to explain our universe in rational terms.

Consequently the power of magic has gradually emerged from our conscious minds to fathom the unfathomable.

Our most distinguished scientists reluctantly admit, that mankind is nothing but some billion creatures, sitting on a piece of solar driftwood floating in space.

Magic is the art of influencing the cause of events by the intervention of spiritual forces or some other occult device.

According to Arthur C. Clarke any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Early civilization often mistook the unexplainable world around them to be magic.

Rupert sheldrake in his book "seven experiments that could change the world" has stated that scientist's attitude toward their experiments affect the results of their experiments.

There is no such thing as a definite fact in science and therefore the irrationality of magic plays an important part in our rational world.

Werner heisenberg, the leading 20th. century physicist has stated, that mass is a physical interpretation of energy.

Religious organizations have understood the power of magic; and therefore monopolized the interpretation of the supernatural to control the human mind.

The universe as a whole is beyond explanation.

Only at the end of the 20th century the roman catholic church admitted, that the great visionary galileo galilei was, in fact, correct.

The second millennium has come to an end. scientists have to admit that the universe is magic.

CELSIUS

ON TRACK

MONOLITH

RESISTOR

LIQUID MOUNTAIN

PAN BLUE

PROGRAMA
(Autores Blank/Meier excepto indicación)
01. Solar Driftwood
02. Celsius
03. More
04. On Track
05. Monolith
06. To The Sea (Blank/Nordenstam)
07. Magnetic
08. Liquid Mountain
09. Pan Blue
10. Resistor
11. Beyond Mirrors

PERSONAL
Yello – Main Performer, Producer
Leos Gerteis – Producer
Ian Tregoning – Producer
Carl Cox – Producer
Boris Blank – Producer, Arranger, Engineer
Dieter Meier – Vocals
Stina Nordenstam – Vocals
Kevin Metcalfe – Mastering

TO THE SEA