Ferris Bueller, the group’s musical ambitions started to take shape with their debut album
Solid Pleasure and its third single “Bostich.” The 1981 single sought out a new approach to electronic music with its pulsating synthesizer, disco beat, and Meier’s rapid-fire, rap-like vocal delivery. Anyone hearing it at the time on black radio in America could never have imagined it had been made by a bunch of white guys hailing from Switzerland.
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Yello’s ambitious, idiosyncratic sound owes much to Blank’s lack of formal musical training. Instead, his imagination is fired up in the studio by experiments in sampling. (He has a library of many thousands of original samples.) With these, he meticulously and gorgeously constructs incredible, detailed rhythmic soundscapes that form the basis of everything from sophisticated dance floor anthems to atmospheric tracks with cinematic ambitions. These sound pictures are blen
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The eponymous Dida is Nikola s mother. In his voice-over narration, the co-director explains that she never really recovered from a seizure she had had when she was two years old, and consequently faced serious learning disabilities. This is why he was brought up by his grandmother, and the film opens with the four of them - Dida, Grandma, Nikola and Corina - at the cemetery, marking another anniversary of Grandpa s death with
rakija and Nikola s favourite dish,
sarma. Judging by the mood, one would assume this event to be some sort of celebration and not such a solemn occasion.