Peter Gordon, David Cunningham - The Yellow Box (2025) [Hi-Res]

The album The Yellow Box is a collaborative project by trans-Atlantic musicians David Cunningham and Peter Gordon, who initially connected in the late 1970s through a shared interest in postmodern deconstruction and poptimism, building on their earlier work on the Flying Lizards' fourth wall. Conceived as a structural repurposing of music as untethered puzzle pieces without predetermined outcomes, the album took nearly two years to complete (1981–1983) and featured drummer Anton Fier (The Feelies/Lounge Lizards) and bassist John Greaves (Henry Cow/Soft Heap). The recording remained a "lost treasure" until its eventual release on Cunningham’s Piano imprint in 1996. The cinematic and avant-garde album is filled with drifting drones, counter-melodies, eerie minimalism, Kraftwerkian synthesizers, looped voices, early sampling techniques, and prepared instruments. Compared to a sparser version of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts or the experimental work of Can's Holger Czukay, the record stands as a conceptually complete work at the crossroads of time and technology, which has now been re-released over 40 years later.

Tracklist:
1-1 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Unlooped [1:15]
1-2 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - God [4:17]
1-3 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Russians [2:51]
1-4 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Provenance [4:25]
1-5 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Eighth [1:13]
1-6 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Out in the Yard [2:21]
1-7 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - From the Yard [2:07]
1-8 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Citizen [2:50]
1-9 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Sixth [1:38]
1-10 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Are you a Fish? [1:50]
1-11 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - The Unpopular Statement [4:04]
1-12 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - The Little One [0:56]
1-13 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Potomac [3:36]
1-14 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Dark River [5:30]
1-15 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - The Non-Loop [5:00]
1-16 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Seventh [0:38]
1-17 Peter Gordon;David Cunningham - Austria [2:57]