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Cover of Asterisms by Sean Ono Lennon.

Sean Ono Lennon

Asterisms

TZADIK

    Devon Hoff, Yuka C Honda, Michael Leonhart, Joao Nogueira, Mauro Refosco, Ches Smith, Johnny Mathar, Sean Ono Lennon - Tzadik is proud to present Asterisms, a beautiful and exploratory instrumental project by Sean Ono Lennon, one of the most creative and versatile musician/ composer/producer/songwriters working today.

    Sean has written countless songs, composed film scores, produced, and performed on dozens of albums--and here he steps out as the leader of an all-star band of Downtown luminaries. Years in the making, the music is powerful, trippy, and intensely imaginative, blending rock, electronics, jazz, and more into an exciting new musical soundscape. With driving rhythms, a stunning lyricism, and a brilliant sense of orchestration, this album is sure to surprise and delight music fans the world 'round. Beautifully recorded, this is modern instrumental music at its very best--essential!

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Starwater
    2. Thinking Of M
    3. Acidalia
    4. Asterisms
    5. Heliopause

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    Cover of Far From Home by DR. MYSTERY.

    DR. MYSTERY

    Far From Home

    Ono

    DR. MYSTERY marks her debut release with Ono. "Far From Home" is an eight-track album that glides across the dreamscape of another world. DR. MYSTERY’s world, set in the future, exploring sounds that excite the mind and body, underpinning an eclectic take on leftfield techno.

    DR. MYSTERY’s talent to traverse the intersections between dreams and reality through sonics, positions her as an electric producer who is only just at the beginning of her journey. Ono wishes to capture this moment in a way that feels special, they have handmade 300 sleeves for the "Far From Home" vinyl out of old record sleeves and screen-printed the artwork onto them. Therefore each sleeve is bespoke and one of a kind.

    Landing inna indeed exotic and alien dreamscape. The first two, quite classic Detroit / electro influenced tracks quickly morph into a cybernetic-trip-pop masterpiece entitled "Petrichor" which sounds like if Portishead transmitted from Saturn. Peppered drum hits, ethereal vox and wavy synths decorate much of the remaining duration; as DR. MYSTERY drifts between hydroplaning electro and jarring mainframe kinetics. It's a seductive and immersive trip with a great deal of continuity, simplicity and sentiment holding the whole thing together. Like much of Ono's cherished discography, it's a leftfield, DIY epic which belies its underground ethos and aesthetic. Fully endorsed by us all here at Picc HQ it's great to see Ono back in action for 2023!

    All tracks written, produced & mixed by DR. MYSTERY
    Mastered by Nick Sinna at Hidden Sounds
    Artwork by Dr Mystery, Michael Holland
    Screen-printed by Luste Silkscreen Studio in Riga


    STAFF COMMENTS

    Matt says: For newcomers to Ono this is a quintessentially great entry point. Custom sleeves, screen printed artwork, featuring a truly underground artist - all aspects that the Michael Holland-directed label has celebrated over its many years of inception.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Dialog That Needs Your Attention 04:24
    2. Gaia 06:00
    3. Petrichor 05:08
    4. Zukunft 02:33
    5. Opulence 04:22
    6. Avalanche 04:24
    7. Far From Home 05:11
    8. Antares 03:41

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    Cover of NAKTHTTPS by Ugis Jansons.

    Ugis Jansons

    NAKTHTTPS

    ONO

      Latvia's Ugis Jansons comes highly recommended by Manchester's own Michael Holland, and sees Jansons working through a number of beautiful poppy piano pieces and shimmering loungey jazz numbers. Sitting somewhere between the off-kilter pop of Efterklang, the twinkling piano of Frahm and Jens Lenkman's cleverly produced sunshine pop. There's elements peeping through of dancefloor electronics and post-dubstep, before breaking into super-smooth glitched hip-hop, but all of the seemingly disparate elements are pulled together into a refined and beautifully polished whole. It's constantly surprising, thoroughly entrancing and most importantly, a great listen. 

      TRACK LISTING

      1. KLAVRĪT 02:55
      2. PLKST 1 13 5 04:01
      3. JĀ 03:38
      4. MIERĪGA 03:06
      5. STARPSPĒLE 00:59
      6. RĪT 03:56
      7. UPE 04:13
      8. WAVESTATE 03:41
      9. KNTRLE 04:44
      10. NAKTHTTPS 04:24
      11. ELĒPSPRATS 01:13

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      Cover of Summer Sun / Like Stone - Sean Ono Lennon Remixes by Matt Berry.

      Matt Berry

      Summer Sun / Like Stone - Sean Ono Lennon Remixes

      Acid Jazz

        After a busy, successful and critically acclaimed year Matt Berry offers one final salvo to his fans. A unique 12” single featuring his two collaborations with Sean Ono Lennon.

        Sean worked on two tracks from ‘The Blue Elephant’ album and applied his mind to give us distinctive re-interpretations of ‘Summer Sun’ and ‘Like Stone’. Psychedelics mixed with a stomping beat for ‘Summer Sun’ and something a little bit weird and reflective for ‘Like Stone’.

        TRACK LISTING

        Summer Sun (Sean Ono Lennon Remix)
        Like Stone (Sean Ono Lennon Remix)

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        Cover of Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Mixes) by John Lennon.

        John Lennon

        Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Mixes)

        Apple

          Plastic Ono Band was the debut solo album by John Lennon. Released on December 11th 1970, John and Yoko had started writing and demoing at Abbey Road (EMI Studios) in the summer, with recording sessions during September/October

          After the break-up of The Beatles that year, John and Yoko embarked on a period of self-reflection and experimentation, with the results that the songs and sessions for Plastic Ono Band were heavily influenced by his immersion in Arthur Janov’s primal therapy. John was able to find emotional depth and honesty within himself that few artists had ever done before, with John saying to Rolling Stone “now I write all about me and that’s why I like it. It’s me.” . The result is perhaps the most honest and emotionally raw album that anyone has ever released, let alone someone who was one of the four most famous musicians on the planet. With a small core band comprised of just Ringo Starr on drums and old friend Klaus Voorman on bass, co-produced by Phil Spector, the album peaked at 8 in the UK charts and 6 in the USA. It has come to be regarded by many as John’s finest solo work and has continued to grow in stature and reverence and has often featured in various Best Of lists through the years since. 

          Released on the same day was Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band album, the couple regarding the release as a pair of albums rather than two entirely separate projects, albeit of course it not achieving the same sort of coverage or chart success as John’s.

          Coming as this does hot on the heels of last year’s much loved and well-reviewed “Gimme Some Truth” set and “Imagine” before that, the audio has been completely remixed from the original studio tapes as part of the ongoing John Lennon Ultimate Mix series. The aim for this mix process is to achieve three things: to remain faithful and respectful to the original recordings; to ensure that the sound is sonically clearer overall and to increase the clarity of John’s vocals. As Yoko says, “it’s about John” and this new mix shows that it is his voice that brings the biggest emotional impact of the album.


          TRACK LISTING

          2LP
          Side A: The Ultimate Mixes Album And Singles
          Mother
          Hold On
          I Found Out
          Working Class Hero
          Isolation

          Side B: The Ultimate Mixes Album And Singles
          Remember
          Love
          Well Well Well
          Look At Me
          God
          My Mummy’s Dead

          Side C: The Ultimate Mixes/Out-takes Album And Singles
          Mother / Take 61
          Hold On / Take 2
          I Found Out / Take 1
          Working Class Hero / Take 1
          Isolation / Take 23

          Side D: The Ultimate Mixes/Out-takes Album And Singles
          Remember / Rehearsal 1
          Love / Take 8
          Well Well Well / Take 2
          Look At Me / Take 2
          God / Take 27
          My Mummy’s Dead / Take 2

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          Cover of Wedding Album by John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

          John Lennon & Yoko Ono

          Wedding Album

          Secretly Canadian

            Originally released in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Wedding Album’ was the couple’s third experimental album length record and one of the most remarkable of the duo’s testaments to an intense romantic and artistic partnership that would last fourteen years, until Lennon’s tragic passing in 1980.

            On March 20, 1969, John and Yoko were married in a civil service in Gibraltar. To celebrate the event, in lieu of a conventional honeymoon, the newlyweds spent a week in bed at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, inviting members of the press into their room for interviews and photo sessions and using their fame and the publicity generated by their ‘Bed-in’ to call attention to their campaign for world peace.

            With ‘Wedding Album’, John and Yoko created an enduring snapshot of a vibrant pop-cultural moment, with the hostilities of the Vietnam War as its bracing backdrop. It captures the humour, earnestness, and spontaneity that marked the early years of the ‘Ballad of John and Yoko’ era.

            ‘Wedding Album’’s innovative, original packaging, created by graphic designer John Kosh, included a box filled with souvenirs of John and Yoko’s nuptials: photographs, a copy of the couple’s marriage certificate, both Lennon’s and Ono’s drawings, a picture of a slice of wedding cake and more. Now, with a faithful recreation of ‘Wedding Album’ on special edition white vinyl LP, as well as compact disc, Secretly Canadian are making one of the most unusual and emblematic recordings of the Sixties available again - fifty years after John and Yoko were married - to mark the Golden Wedding anniversary of two of the 20th Century’s most emblematic cultural figures.

            TRACK LISTING

            John & Yoko
            Amsterdam

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            Cover of Warzone by Yoko Ono.

            Yoko Ono

            Warzone

            Chimera

              Following twenty albums over 50 years, Yoko Ono's Warzone is strikingly different from any record she has made previously, but it is also strikingly different from any album that anyone is making...

              Yoko revisits and reimagines 13 songs from her past work, spanning 1970-2009, the lyrics and messages still pertinent—perhaps even more pertinent—in 2018. "The world is so messed up. Things are very difficult for everybody. It's a warzone that we are living in..." says Ono. "I like to create things in a new way. Every day things change."

              The recordings and arrangements on Warzone are very stripped down, with a particular emphasis on Yoko's voice and lyrics. Here in this minimalist landscape the content of her message rings clear and unencumbered; sometimes somber warnings, sometimes uplifting encouragement, but her wisdom and fortitude are unflinchingly strong, her power having intensified with time and life experience. She ends the ominous questions of "Now Or Never" (1971) with one of her most famous and inspiring lines: "[a] Dream you dream alone is only a dream, but dream we dream together is reality."

              Warzone further builds the legacy of an artist unparalleled in her unique and singular vision. At 85 years young, Ono is already plotting her next album... It is not too late to change the world. We need Yoko now more than ever.

              TRACK LISTING

              1 Warzone
              2 Hell In Paradise
              3 Now Or Never
              4 Where Do We Go From Here
              5 Woman Power
              6 It?s Gonna Rain
              7 Why
              8 Children Power
              9 I Love All Of Me
              10 Teddy Bear
              11 I?m Alive
              12 I Love You Earth
              13 Imagine 

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              Cover of Stills by Michael Cutting.

              Michael Cutting

              Stills

              Ono

              North UK-based tape musician Michael Cutting makes his album debut with STILLS on Salford’s beloved imprint Ono. Relish- ing in the lo-fi, analogue textures offered by the pairing of fender rhodes piano and reel to reel tape machines, the album’s seven tracks act as vignettes; tempting with loop-induced isorhythms of warping, disintegrating harmonies. An extended re- working of Cutting’s live set for the same instruments, STILLS heavily retains the sense of live process, evoking precariously balanced loops between tape machines and thermoflasks, with the distinctive clicks and clunks of the reel to reels’ buttons and levers an intrinsic element to the sonic discourse.

              Cutting’s use of melody — plaintive, jaunty, occasionally drifting off-key — perfectly suits the nature of his tape-based ‘instruments’, with their inherent flaws, uncertainties, and means of making sound [...] STILLS is full of such attractive contrasts of melody, harmony, and rhythm, made all the more compelling by the ways in which they incorporate the material nature of the machines and processes that produce them

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Smoke
              2. Scorch
              3. Skint
              4. Slate
              5. Silk
              6. Salt.
              7. Sway

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              Cover of Feeling The Space by Yoko Ono.

              Yoko Ono

              Feeling The Space

              Secretly Canadian

                If you’ve listened to ‘Feeling The Space’, Yoko Ono’s personalis- political 1973 album, it should come as no surprise that the once-reviled artist is inspiring a new generation of activists in 2017.

                On such songs as the righteous chant ‘Woman Power’, the empathetic ballad ‘Angry Young Woman’, the hilarious protogrrrl ‘Potbelly Rocker’ and the satirical ‘Men, Men, Men’, Yoko sings in surprisingly straightforward fashion about the burdens carried by women and the mandate for feminism.

                Supported by such skilled studio vets as guitarist David Spinozza, sax player Michael Brecker and drummer Jim Keltner, this is perhaps Yoko’s most accessible album and her most intimate.

                ‘Feeling The Space’ was recorded during the time when the avant-garde visionary artist became estranged from her rock star husband John Lennon. He plays only briefly on the album (billed as Johnny O’Cean); she produced and wrote all the songs. The result is a definitive soundtrack / document of the era of consciousness raising and of radical critique of the family structure. Yoko and company deliver this hard message soft rock style, or as soft as Yoko could get. Yoko was on the front lines of the women’s liberation movement.

                Dedicated “to the sisters who died in pain and sorrow and those who are now in prisons and in mental hospitals for being unable to survive in the male society,” it’s an emotional exploration of the psychological toll of oppression.

                Available again for the first time in decades.

                TRACK LISTING

                Growing Pain
                Yellow Girl (Stand By For Life)
                Coffin Car
                Woman Of Salem
                Run, Run, Run
                If Only
                A Thousand Times Yes
                Straight Talk
                Angry Young Woman
                She Hits Back
                Woman Power
                Men, Men, Men

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                Cover of We Are For A While by Vitalija Glovackyte.

                Vitalija Glovackyte

                We Are For A While

                Ono

                Another of Ono's expansive and highly creative projects. "We Are For A While" is a fully realized multimedia experience, detailing the working process for Vitalija Glovackyte's sonic and visual tale about recycling. Vitalija first sourced a plethora of broken and salvaged instruments, their acquisition alone worthy of a tale (told in the accompanying booklet). After repairing instruments to a (somewhat) playable state, Glovackyte then set about recording the album you hear now - a collection of electro-folk meanderings, broken ambience and fairytales from industrial sites. It's a heartfelt homage to re-using instead of replacing and is highly evocative in the process. The booklet comes with photos detailing the process as well as a written narrative from Glovoackyte. It's another brilliant addition to the art / music cannon that is Ono records. Highly recommended.

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                Cover of Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life With The Lions by John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

                John Lennon & Yoko Ono

                Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life With The Lions

                Secretly Canadian

                The sound of Ono and Lennon validating their love as something impenetrable and timeless. It’s when we, the listener, begin to fully understand that the scope of their recording efforts was much more than a recording collaboration and something closer to a performative documentary, a declaration of “Our life and our love is our art - every nitty, gritty part of it.”

                TRACK LISTING

                Cambridge 1969
                No Bed For Beatle John
                Baby’s Heartbeat
                Two Minutes Silence
                Radio Play

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                Cover of Plastic Ono Band by Yoko Ono.

                Yoko Ono

                Plastic Ono Band

                Secretly Canadian

                This long-overdue vinyl reissue of Yoko Ono’s seminal but massively under-appreciated ‘Plastic Ono Band’ has all the makings of a classic rock nostalgia trip: Ono, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman. All the pieces are here to stir up a dangerous amount of nostalgia but once the needle drops the record achieves something exactly perpendicular to nostalgia.

                Released in 1971, the album not only influenced the approach of other musicians for decades, it also sounds absolutely modern 44 years out, eternally fresh despite the forward march of time.

                ‘Plastic Ono Band’ not only predicted the intersection of the avant-garde and rock that would take place in the second half of that decade, the album would sound right at home at where that intersection is happening today.

                TRACK LISTING

                Why
                Why Not
                Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City
                AOS
                Touch Me
                Paper Shoes

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                Cover of Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins by John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

                John Lennon & Yoko Ono

                Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins

                Secretly Canadian

                Turns out the very sound of falling in love is just as abstract, subjective and loopy as the concept itself. Yoko Ono and John Lennon are two of history’s greatest lovers and ‘Two Virgins’ is the document of the pair falling in love in real time. The album is a curious and amazing suite recorded over one weekend in Spring 1968 at Lennon’s Kenwood home: Distant conversations; comedic role playing and footsteps; laughter, birdcalls and plunking piano lines; silly songs and space; tape delay stretching shrieks, bass rumbles and moans to the moon and back again.

                The now-iconic cover (featuring Ono and Lennon standing nude together) notwithstanding, nothing about ‘Two Virgins’ is safe. It would be a risky move today for artists in the larger, pop culture conversation just as it was a risky move in 1969. However, this is an uncomfortably private, two-person dialogue about - and celebration of - experimentation, inspiration and play. These two souls bravely let us look through the keyhole.

                TRACK LISTING

                Side One
                Side Two

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                Cover of Big Peace by Peace.

                Peace

                Big Peace

                Ono

                Big Peace (formerly known as Big War) is a Manchester based producer, DJ, member of the Generic Greeting Collective and co-promoter of No White Tee's (alongside Swing Ting's Joey B). Working in a variety of musical disciplines, you're as likely to hear his music as part of an installation in a gallery as you are to hear it on a rap mixtape. His unique and underivative productions have received praise both locally and further afield and have been featured on websites such as Vice, Dummy, Southern Hospitality and Cocaine Blunts. Big War's DJ sets run the gamut from funk and soul to rap and leftfield beats. Peace & War was created between 2010-2016 and is a two part collection of instrumentals made from samples and original
                material with an awareness of DIY music and a clear influence from early 90's Warp / electronica. The music is bright eyed and positive but keeps it's foot firmly in the present as it marries its hip hop influences with a very post-everything, 2016 aesthetic. References could be made with 1080p, 100% Silk and the more recent Hyperdub output; but this definitely stands out as something sincere and considered, not simply an attempt to latch onto a fashionable trent of also-rans. Although highly produced, this is honest music that should resonante with the heart as much as it stimulates the mind and body. There's elements of yearning, lust, wide-eyed optimism and serene melancholy. Wonderfully sequenced and presented, this is a brilliantly realized piece. Highly recommended! 

                TRACK LISTING

                Peace Side:
                1. Aisha
                2. Hush (with Szajna)
                3. Cosey
                4. Diva
                5. Mrmi3
                6. Imperial Bedrooms (with Moose)
                7. Find A Way
                8. Bodyhigh
                9. Scales (with Szajna)
                10. Peace
                (33:04)
                War Side:
                1. Tour
                2. Hypeeee
                3. Knew Too Much
                4. Stiffy (with Szajna)
                5. Ballout
                6. Nono
                7. Bonus Edit
                8. Skerg
                9. One Of You
                10. Oscar
                (32:36)

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                Cover of Broken Records Phantasy by DJ Crackle & DJ Skip.

                DJ Crackle & DJ Skip

                Broken Records Phantasy

                Ono

                Fresh from dropping the world conquering "Posh People Make Me Ill", Ono are at it again, throwing another sonic curveball right around your melon. This time round, label favourite Stuart Chalmers (DJ Crackle) sets to work looping, layering and collaging a broad selection of sampled delights, loving cut up (in this case literally) from DJ Skip's (label head Michael Holland) extensive record collection. Taking an anything goes approach to source material the set switches between RnB, exotica, avant garde experiments, oddbal funk and disconcerting ambience, all chopped, screwed, slurred and spun out with maximum respect to Burroughs, Mike Cooper and Severed Heads. Whether you dig the frenetic and disorienting "Palm Treehouse Street Band", the headnodding bump of "Brandy Song For Supercat" or the borderline Balearic chill of "Beach Clouds" there's more than enough here to keep you coming back for more. Bravo.

                TRACK LISTING

                1. Beach Clouds
                2. Beautiful Cara, Don't Worry
                3. Brandy Song For Supercat
                4. Neutron Future Classics
                5. White Moonglows
                6. Neutron Past Classic
                7. Torch Songs For Trumpet
                8. Palm Treehouse Street Band

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                Cover of Yes, I'm A Witch Too by Yoko Ono.

                Yoko Ono

                Yes, I'm A Witch Too

                Manimal Vinyl Records

                MANIMAL GROUP is excited to announce the sequel to YOKO ONO’S critically acclaimed 2007 collaboration record Yes, I’m A Witch (Astralwerks).

                'Yes, I’m A Witch Too' features new collaborations and remixes pairing ONO with Death Cab For Cutie, Peter, Bjorn and John, Sparks, tUnE-yArDs, MiikeSnow, Cibo Matto, Portugal The Man and more. 


                TRACK LISTING

                1: Walking On Thin Ice
                2: Forgive Me My Love
                3: Mrs. Lennon
                4: Give Me Something
                5: She Gets Down On Her Knees
                6: Dogtown
                7: Wouldnit
                8: Move On Fast
                9: Soul Got Out Of The Box
                10: Approxmately Infinite Universe
                11: Yes, I'm Your Angel
                12: Warrior Woman
                13: Coffin Car
                14: I Have A Woman Inside My Soul
                15: Catman
                16: No Bed For Beatle John
                17: Hell In Paradise 

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                Cover of Sea Shanty Township by Watch Repair.

                Watch Repair

                Sea Shanty Township

                Ono

                  The cultishly adored and highly acclaimed Watch Repair return with one of their biggest hits to date. "Sea Shanty Town Ship" sees the act expand on their now trademark work method of tuned grandfather clocks and other found sounds and now includes flurries of guitar, pocket cello, dulcimer, reed organ, accordion and bowl (!!!). Those familiar with the sound know what to expect - the warmest, almost cerebral enveloping ambience, drones and tones, collaged together in sophisticated, sleight-of-hand excellence. Suspense and tension are given new meaning alongside reconceptualizing the natural ambience of the traditional grandfather clock. Now garnering support from the cyberworld, Factmag are counted amongst their fans; and rightfully so. This is gloriously sedate but instantly resonating musique which can instantly transport any listener from the current location to an altered mindstate. Most recommended. 

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                  Cover of Summer Of Grieving by Cargo Cult.

                  Cargo Cult

                  Summer Of Grieving

                  Ono / Warm Blood

                  Noisy, doom-laden, industrialized sludge here, quite the departure for Ono and a swerveball for the label make no mistake! This collaborative release with Warm Blood puts to disc what was a tape only release from 2012. Cult Cargo features members from my (and label owner Michael Holland's) childhood home of the (sunny!) Rossendale Valley - so you know you're dealing some real freakz here! Sounding somewhere between Suicide, the Cramps and The Fall, the band blend distorted, deadpan vocals, low tuned basslines and a heady mix of machine buzz and fug to dramatic effect. Punk in attitude but stoner in execution, these tracks burn, snarl and drunkardly swagger through their duration, leaving the listener disorientated and uneasy, but always spiritually refreshed. Personal highlights? "Turbo-Hippies" and "Poison" ride that psychotic, Mark E Smith frenzy with aplomb, while on "Yu" and "Night Time Is A Frightful Time" comparisons could be drawn with US psyche luminaries Robodor; apocalyptic, robotized doom. Is that a moody cover of Nirvana I hear in there too?! There's really something for everybody, or rather, nothing for nobody. It's a minority field after all... Recommended.

                  STAFF COMMENTS

                  Matt says: Holy shit this is one of my favourite Ono releases yet! And a totally different direction for the label. This shit bites harder than an Alsatian on crack rocks! Uncompromising punk-sludge from Rossendale's finest!

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1 Yu
                  2 Poison
                  3 Night Time Is A Frightful Time
                  4 Comic Profanity
                  5 Turbo Hippies
                  6 Subhuman Sustenance
                  7 The News Is The Noose
                  8 Whispers & Echoes
                  9 Starry-Eyed & Sleepless
                  10 A Happy Dose Of Homoterrestrial Spirit
                  11 Circles, Circles & Bigger Fucking Circles
                  12 My Heaven

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                  Cover of Take Me To The Land Of Hell by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.

                  Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

                  Take Me To The Land Of Hell

                  Chimera Music

                    Following her hugely successful run as curator of London’s Meltdown Festival, this album continues an astonishing bout of creativity for Ono, who is celebrating her 80th birthday with major museum retrospectives around the world, her 10th #1 hit on the Billboard Dance charts, a sequel to her instruction book Grapefruit, winning "Digital Genius" MTV O Award, and spearheading the activist effort against fracking in her home state of New York. A career retrospective book will be published by Genesis in Autumn followed by reissues of her '60s-80s albums in 2014.

                    “My new album comes at a very special time for me. The energy I have right now, and the desire to continue to make as much great work as I can, is really moving me forward all the time. This album is the culmination of a lot of ideas I’ve been having over the last few years and I feel proud to release it at such an exciting time of my life."

                    Take Me To The Land Of Hell was recorded in New York and produced by Yoko, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band includes members of Cornelius and Cibo Matto, plus – special guests for this album – tUnEyArDs, ?uestlove, Lenny Kravitz, Nels Cline and Andrew Wyatt. The album includes remixes by Mike D & Adrock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada.

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                    Cover of Yokokimthurston by Yoko Ono / Thurston Moore / Kim Gordon.

                    Yoko Ono / Thurston Moore / Kim Gordon

                    Yokokimthurston

                    Chimera Music

                      What we have here is a New York City avant garde convergence at its finest. The idea of a meeting between Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore is so perfect, so obvious, the only shock is that it didn’t happen earlier. Recorded last year at Manhattan’s Sear Sound, the album features lead vocals by Yoko, with backing vocals and guitars by Kim and Thurston. It’s a wild collision of song-form, poetics, free-rock and classic glossolalic ecstasy. Yoko has not allowed herself to sound this raw since the earliest recordings of the Plastic Ono Band. There’s a remarkably empathic and comfortable quality to the sound. The three communicate as though they’d been playing together forever.

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                      Cover of Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon.

                      John Lennon

                      Plastic Ono Band

                      EMI

                      Says Yoko: 'In this very special year which would have seen my husband and life partner reach the age of 70, I hope that this remastering/reissue programme will help bring his incredible music to a whole new audience. By remastering almost 150 songs spanning 8 of his most brilliant albums, I hope also that those who are already familiar with his work will find renewed inspiration from his incredible gifts as a songwriter, musician and vocalist and from his power as a commentator on the human condition'.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      1. Mother (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      2. Hold On (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      3. I Found Out (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      4. Working Class Hero (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      5. Isolation (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      6. Remember (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      7. Love (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      8. Well Well Well (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      9. Look At Me (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      10. God (2010 Digital Remaster)
                      11. My Mummy's Dead (2010 Digital Remaster)

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                      Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

                      Between My Head And The Sky

                      Chimera Music

                        From Fluxus and performance-art pioneer and Two Virgins to chart-topping dance-music heroine(inspiring punk rock along the way), Yoko Ono 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. Band includes Keigo 'Cornelius' Oyamada and his band members Yuko Araki and Shimmy Shimizu, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto) as well as NYC improvisers Erik Friedlander, Shahzad Ismaily, Michael Leonhart, Daniel Carter and Indigo Street. Raw rockers, electronic pulse glimmers, dark late-night improvisations and heart-breaking elegiac ballads- Yoko takes a variety of textual approaches on this beautifully balanced collection of work. A career-defining album by one of contemporary culture's reigning geniuses.

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