| View Larger Image | Between My Head and the Sky | Audio CDby Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
| List Price: | $15.98 | | Price: | $13.99 | | You Save: | $1.99 (12%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Chimera Music | | Release Date: | September 22, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 3,293rd |
|
FEATURES | |
TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Waiting for the D Train
- Track 2: Sun Is Down!
- Track 3: Ask the Elephant!
- Track 4: Memory of Footsteps
- Track 5: Moving Mountains
- Track 6: Calling
- Track 7: Healing
- Track 8: Hashire, Hashire
- Track 9: Between My Head and the Sky
- Track 10: Feel the Sand
- Track 11: Watching the Rain
- Track 12: Unun. To
- Track 13: I'm Going Away Smiling
- Track 14: Higa Noboru
- Track 15: I'm Alive
|
EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
2009 release. At 76 years young, Yoko continues to kick ass. Between My Head & The Sky is 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 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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 16 reviews)
|
I hear Lennon and Nilsson in her voice. THis is fun stuff. by thedre (San Francisco)  4 Stars
November 23, 2009
Hope I spelled Nilsson right. And the mixes are playful, like David Sylvian mixed with Towa Te or Pizzicato Five. THis is playful, fun stuff...sprinkled with a touch of Typsy. But I hear Lennon's voice sometimes, and sometimes Nilsson's. Considering her philosphy, I find it pretty hard to imagine she was trying to lock out the rest of the Beatles. I think John needed to go his own way, and she helped him in that journey.
| |
Yoko Ono, now 76, cannot be stopped! by Paul Allaer (Cincinnati) 4 Stars
November 21, 2009
Yoko Ono, now age 76, cannot be stopped these days. After a more than passable 2007 album "Yes, I'm a Witch" now comes yet another new studio album issued under the "Yoko Ono PLastic Ono Band" nomiker, surrounding herself on this collection with son Sean Lennon and his band, and other assorted studio musicians.
"Between My Head and the Sky" (15 tracks; 59 min.) starts off with a funky "Waiting For the D Train", which is then followed by THE must-hear track of this album, a 5 min. wildely eccentric but oh-so entertaining "The Sun Is Down!". Another loosely structured jam "Ask the Elephant!" comes next. What a stunning 1-2-3 opening set. Understandably things setlle down after that a bit, including pensive tracks like "Memory of Footsteps" and "Healing". But check out "Moving Mountains", an instrumental with Ono's wailing on top and distorted trumpets in the background, wow. I rate the first half of the album 4.5 stars. The second half of the album is not as strong, although "Hashire, Hashire" is a jazzy free-flowing track which makes you wanna get up and dance. The title train is hard-charging tune with great guitar work from Sean Lennon. But the 6 min. "Feel the Sand" ballad (Ono-style, of course) goes on for far too long. I rate the second half 3.5 stars. Cut 3 or 4 of the weaker tracks and we have a 4.5 stars album here, but then again this is Yoko Ono, and she's gonna do whatever she's gonna do.
And have I mentioned that Yoko Ono is 76? It is simply stunning to hear her at the top of her game, as she clearly is on this album. And it gives all of us (or certainly me) hope that getting old(er) doesn't mean once cannot enjoy rock music anymore, even an album as experimental and free-spirited as "Between My Head and the Sky".
| |
Oh Yoko by Carlo Mercieri (Ormond Beach, Florida United States)  5 Stars
November 14, 2009
When most people hear the name Yoko Ono they cringe in disdainful closed minded ignorance...they are mistaken to not give ac hance to this powerful album...
The grooves groove heavy and the space, light and thoughtful.
Yoko's word have meaning, sometimes rough, sometimes peace, sometimes sexy...
It is the sound of the city and the night sky of compassion...
| |
Wow Is This Stuff B-A-D! by David R. Seid (Fairfax, VA USA)  1 Stars
November 11, 2009
Oh my! I hate to be the lone person to write a negative review, but I feel so strongly on this that I can't repress my feelings... Bottom line is I feel this is utter garbage. I like to go outside the mainstream and can appreciate new ground being laid, but the first track alone had me in a fit of laughter at how incredibly BAD it was. I truly have never heard a song this weird (and not weird in a good way). Unfortunately the rest of the album is similar. All I can say is that this one merits a buy... but as a gag gift for a "special" recipient that you wish to torture or amuse. As music, if you are looking for something off the mainstream, try Erin Bode or any number of other talented artists... Give this one a pass.
| |
A Genre-Buster! by Steven Haarala (Mandeville, LA USA) 4 Stars
November 04, 2009
Yoko's band for this CD, the reinvented "Plastic Ono Band", is composed of musicians of obvious ability. One of them is her son, Sean Lennon. Sean must have inherited considerable talent from both his parents, because he is credited with playing a variety of instruments - guitars, piano and keyboards, bass and percussion.
The tracks on this CD represent a rainbow of genres, most of them incorporating Yoko's trademark "vocalizations"; and many include lyrics which paint a relationship between philosophy and elemental things: sun, moon, stars, wind, ocean, sand, grass, rain, sky. The odd thing is that in this combination of philosophy and the elements, Yoko resembles another (very different) singer/songwriter, Laura Nyro, who wrote brilliant Top 40 hits recorded by pop/rock artists in the 60's and 70's.
"Waiting For The D Train", "Between My Head And The Sky" and "Hashire, Hashire" fall into the "rock" category. The first 2 are similar to music found on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' classic "Blood Sugar Sex Magik": funky, bass-heavy, guitars galore. The music of the 3rd one (sung in Japanese) reminds me of loud, sensational background music from a 50's crime/vice film. Then, what I call "sonic pop" is represented by "The Sun Is Down" and "Watching The Rain". These are milder but still beat-driven, spacey and generously sprinkled with electronica. In the "ballad" category are "Feel The Sand", which literally mentions the value of "smelling the roses"; "Unun.To", featuring classical piano, rippling strings and a muted horn, with lyrics about the effect that our actions and emotions have on our neighbors in the Universe, present and future; "I'm Going Away Smiling", with ascending and descending piano arpeggios, strings, and lyrics that I feel MUST be about John; and "Higa Noboru", with arpeggios vaguely like the music of "Moonlight Sonata".
The remaining tracks stand alone as far as categorizing goes. "Ask The Elephant" is rather spare musically, leaning toward contemporary modern jazz (with a heavy beat). "Memory Of Footsteps" has a solo horn arrangement reminiscent of what you might hear in an old popular jazz standard. "Moving Mountains" has no lyrics, just Asian jungle beats and jungle noises (not only from Yoko!). "Calling" is a song of comfort and encouragement which begins quietly, backed by a droning like that from a bagpipe or organ, but soon changes to 60's acid-rock. "Healing" is folk-like.
If you like music for its own sake (not just formulaic mainstream); alternative sounds, especially electronica; abstract lyrics as opposed to simple love songs; and if your mind is open to experimentation, then probably you will enjoy this creation.
| |
SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Soundstage: Ringo Starr and the Roundheads - Live
Starring: Ringo Starr
Captured in High-Definition and Mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound Filmed at this historic Genesee Theatre in Waukegan, Illinois – this amazing, one-night-only event presents Ringo Starr performing five Beatles classics along with his greatest solo hits in a career-spanning set with The Roundheads. Features: It Don’t Come Easy, Octopus’s Garden, Choose Love, I Wanna Be Your Man, Who Can It Be Now? (with special guest Colin Hay), Don’t Pass Me By, I’m The Greatest, Give Me Back The...
| 
| Open Your Box (Remixes)
by Yoko Ono
| 
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Undead
by Sean Lennon
2009 instrumental score to an idiosyncratic low-budget vampire flick, composed on Lennon's bedroom computer, Undead is dramatic and wild, sounding like the son of Ennio Morricone or Bruno Nicolai circa early '70s. Featuring Kool Keith and Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto) on the song 'Desire'.
| 
| Yes, I'm a Witch
by Yoko Ono
The voice of Yoko Ono with colloborations from Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, Anotno (of Antony & The Johnsons, The Apples in Stereo, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, Peaches and many more.
| 
| You Are Here
by thenewno2
|
|
|
