Released 10/16/09
Yoko Ono really needs no introduction. She has been an innovative and influential force on music and art, while simultaneously campaigning for peace on the world's stage. At 76 years young, Yoko continues to kick ass. * Between My Head and the Sky, a career-defining album made with her new Plastic Ono Band. The record is a gorgeous, mind-melting blend of styles, restating and sharpening themes while plunging into the always-mysterious future. The Plastic Ono Band is made up of Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada and his band members Yuko Araki and Shimmy Shimizu, son Sean Lennon as band leader and album producer, Yuka Honda from Cibo Matto, as well as NYC improvisers Erik Friedlander, Shahzad Ismaily, Michael Leonhart, Daniel Carter and Indigo Street. Yoko takes a variety of textual approaches on this beautifully balanced collection of work, from raw rock, electronic pulse glimmers, dark late-night improvisations and heart-breaking elegiac ballads. This is a career defining album by one of contemporary culture's reigning geniuses.
Disc 1: WAITING FOR THE D TRAIN SUN IS DOWN! ASK THE ELEPHANT! MEMORY OF FOOTSTEPS MOVING MOUNTAINS CALLING HEALING HASHIRE, HASHIRE BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY FEEL THE SAND WATCHING THE RAIN UNUN. TO I'M GOING AWAY SMILING HIGA NOBORU I'M ALIVE