THE YELLOW BOX is an acclaimed album by Peter Gordon & David Cunningham recorded in the early 1980s and released on CD in 1996. On November 7th, 2025 Week-End Records will release The Yellow Box on vinyl for the first time. To mark the release, Peter Gordon (saxophone, keyboards) will perform a series of concerts with Blake Leyh (electric cello, synthesizer) in Glasgow, London, Cologne, and Brussells. The shows will include video art and films of Gordon’s longtime collaborator Kit Fitzgerald.

Sunday November 23rd, 2025 – STEREO, Glasgow (Tickets & Info)

Monday November 24th, 2025 – Café Oto, London (Tickets & Info)

Wednesday November 26th – JAKI at Stadtgarten, Cologne (Tickets & Info)

Thursday November 27th – les ateliers claus, Brussels (Tickets & Info)

The vinyl re-release will be accompanied by a digital release available on Bandcamp and other streaming platforms.

…Like a sparser, less groove-oriented version of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, or a more radical take on the experimental work of Can’s Holger Czukay, The Yellow Box stands at the crossroads of time and technology… (Week-End Records)

Week-End Records writes about the album:

Embarking on a collaborative exercise in the structural repurposing of music as untethered puzzle pieces in need of rearrangement with no predetermined outcomes, the (Gordon & Cunningham) gave birth to a project that would see them move through both time and recording studios across Europe, taking nearly two years from 1981-1983 to complete. Enlisting the great Anton Fier on drums from The Feelies/Lounge Lizards nexus and John Greaves on bass from Henry Cow/Soft Heaplore to round out their dueling creative counterparts, the album would be something of a lost treasure until its eventual release on Cunningham’s Piano imprint in 1996. 

Cinematic in scope, and filled with drifting drones, beautiful counter-melodies, eery minimalism, Kraftwerkian synthesizers, looped voices, skronky interludes, and other shifting undercurrents of sound, it was an album that utilized both a diverse array of expressive languages, as well as early sampling techniques and prepared instruments, well before most people were thinking in such expansive, integrated terms at the dawn of the 80’s. But such is life at the vanguard of new music.

Read more and order the vinyl at Week-End Records website.