Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever is an Austin-based Texas indie rock band active from 2006 to 2012, with Adam Jones and Jennifer Moore as members. The name is also associated with an earlier group that performs a mix of rock and Latin and reggae rhythms.

Background and style

The earlier Yellow Fever forms around the songwriting and singing of Alex Svenson-Metés, who returns from summer work as a cowboy in Colombia with the idea of combining Latin sounds heard in Latin America with alternative rock. The group works between 1994 and 2004 and develops a sound that joins rock’n’roll with Latin and reggae influences.

Releases and recognition

The band issues a limited EP in Sweden through Escapade Music in 1997, followed by the full-length album Listen Here on Deaf N’ Dumb in 1998. Its single “No Sense” receives regular play on several Swedish radio programmes and appears in the Swedish film Vuxna Människor in 1999. The final album, Tremolina, is released on Undertow Records in 2001 and is recorded with Los Angeles-based producer R. Chris Murphy, whose credits include work with Chucho Valdés, Irakere and King Crimson. The album produces three singles in Scandinavia and Latin America, and one of its songs is used in the US college film Repli-Kate.

Tours and performances

Yellow Fever plays rock clubs and festivals in Sweden and performs at the Beny Moré festival in Cuba in 1999 at the invitation of salsa musician Isaac Delgado, appearing at the Karl-Marx Theater. It later undertakes a short US tour including NXNW in Portland, SXSW in Austin, dates in New York City, and an opening slot for Sugar Ray at the Philadelphia College Fest. In 2002 it tours Latvia and Estonia with The Mo. Its last full-house performance is at Debaser in Stockholm in April 2004.

Later connection

Yellow Fever later changes its name to YellowFever, written without a space and with a capital F, and is then known as Deep Time.