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.
