Yoko Ono – Moonbeams: New music A two-minute monologue about Earth's creation … and then the bass drops? Yes, it's the exclusive premiere of new music from Meltdown curator Yoko Ono
At 80 years old, Yoko Ono – musician, artist, activist and curator of this year's Meltdown festival, which she opens tomorrow night at the Royal Festival Hall in London with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – still manages to surprise and enthrall. As well as a huge art retrospective in Frankfurt recently, Ono's continued spirit of adventure can be summed up by her last three musical endeavours. In 2012, she released YOKOKIMTHURSTON, which, as the title suggests, was a collaboration with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore; she then went on to release a remix album, Onomix, which featured a David Audé take on Hold Me that managed to top the Billboard dance charts. Perhaps her best and most unexpected moment, however, came in the shape of her unique live interpretation of Katy Perry's Firework, which featured a simple piano accompaniment to Ono seemingly speaking in tongues. Only slightly more straightforward is her new single, Moonbeams – premiered here – which opens with a two-minute monologue about Earth's creation, hinging on the line: "People are planets, their souls are suns, orbiting the dancefloor of a cosmic club." As the word dancefloor leaves her lips, the song's bassline starts to emerge through the fog and a full band suddenly kicks in, leading to some guttural, wordless yelps from Ono in the shape of a chorus. It's a brilliantly challenging listen from someone who seems to have made being brilliantly challenging her life's work.
• Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band's album Take Me to the Land of Hell will be released on Chimera Music on 16 September. You can preorder it here, and get a free download of Moonbeams.
Yoko Ono Plans New Album for September Release 'Take Me to the Land of Hell' features Questlove, Tune-Yards
Yoko Ono will be releasing a new album, Take Me to the Land of Hell on September 17th on Chimera Music. The new LP comes four years after Ono's last full-length release, Between My Head and the Sky.
Ono, 80, recorded Take Me to the Land of Hell in New York, where she produced the LP with Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. The album features contributions from Roots drummer Questlove, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, Tune-Yards and Andrew Wyatt, and remixes by Beastie Boys Mike D and Ad-Rock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada.
Post subject: [2013-09-17] Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band "Take Me To The Land Of Hell" (Chimera)
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:11 am
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This is one of the best albums of 2013.I'm already on my 3rd listen. Cheshire Cat Cry is my favorite track so far. Has great rock, funk, ballads, and weirdness
BTW, the release date has been pushed back to 9/24, but I aw her last night and it was being sold at the show.
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