MOONBEAMS by Yoko Ono

published on 2013-06-10T08:11:22Z

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Out on September 17th on vinyl, CD & digital download from <a href="https://chimeramusic.com">Chimera Music</a>. ------------------------------------------ MOONBEAMS by Yoko Ono Winter 2012/2013 Moonbeams melting Into my blood stream In winter The snow protected us Covering our pain Now I hear ice cracking Slowly in my brain My heart is ruminating your sweet words While my hand’s strangling the birds People are planets Their souls are suns Orbiting the dance floor Of our cosmic club Storm clouds were raining But now they’re gone My spirit appears like the sun at dawn Moonbeams spreading their wings Shining my rings I got from my three husbands Who all made me housebound My heart is ruminating your sweet words While my hands are skinning the birds. Spring is here again Your heartbeat is calling me - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Words and Music by Yoko Ono © Ono Music (BMI) 2013 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND Yoko Ono - Vocals Yuko Araki - Drums Sean Ono Lennon - Bass, Drum programming, Synth, Guitar Bill Dobrow, Christopher Sean Powell - Percussion Keigo Oyamada - Kaoss Synth Nels Cline - Electric Guitar Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu - Electric Guitar Yuka C. Honda - Rhodes, Sampler - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL Produced by Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Yuka C. Honda Recorded at Sear Sound by Christopher Allen Mixed by Michael H. Brauer for MHB prods Mixed at Electric Lady Studios Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Kevin Harper - Assistant Engineer Mark Bengston - ProTools Engineer and Assistant Geoff Thorpe - Art Director Greg Kadel - Cover Photography Sean Lennon - Studio photos Yoko Ono - Drawings - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND release the brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on September 17th 2013 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The album continues an astonishing bout of creativity for Ono, who celebrated her 80th birthday this year and has just curated the hugely succesful <a href="http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/yoko-onos-meltdown/" target="_blank">Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London</a>. "An extraordinary performance by any standard – for a woman in her ninth decade, almost unbelievable" <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/yoko-ono--plastic-ono-band-royal-festival-hall--music-review-8661364.html" target="_blank">Evening Standard</a>, June 2013 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The truly amazing YOKO ONO releases her brand new album <a href="http://chimeramusic.com" target="_blank">TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL</a> on Chimera Music on Sep 17th. The album comes four years after her previous studio album <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/album/between-my-head-and-the-sky/id329431571" target="_blank">BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY</a> which received rave reviews and was voted one of Mojo Magazine’s Albums Of the Year. That same year Ono was awarded both the Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo and The Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for her ground-breaking music and art. TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL was recorded in New York and was producedby Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BANDalso includes members of Cornelius and Cibo Matto, plus – for this album – tUnEyArDs, Questlove, Nels Cline and Andrew Wyatt. The album includes remixes by Mike D & Adrock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada. The record was planned and made during a hugely productive period which saw Ono’s 2012 show <a href="http://imaginepeace.com/archives/16252" target="_blank">TO THE LIGHT</a> at London’s Serpentine Gallery break attendance records; she then went on to open <a href="http://imaginepeace.com/archives/19087" target="_blank">HALF-A-WIND SHOW</a>, a major retrospective in Frankfurt, finish her instruction book <a href="http://imaginepeace.com/archives/19575" target="_blank">ACORN</a>, travel extensively to oversee various museum shows, score her 10thNo 1 hit <a href="http://imaginepeace.com/archives/19585" target="_blank">HOLD ME</a> on the Billboard Dance Chart, actively campaign against fracking in New York State, win the <a href="http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/921277/digital-genius-award.jhtml" target="_blank">MTV O Music Award for 'Digital Genius'</a> and – most recently – plan the <a href="http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/yoko-onos-meltdown/" target="_blank">Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London</a>, which she curated. Yoko’s curatorship is already being hailed as the best in the 20 year history of the festival which this year included a coruscating opening night performance by YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, and guest appearances by Ono with Cibo Matto, Peaches, Kim Gordon and a closing night collaborative performance with Siouxsie of Ono’s seminal “Walking On Thin Ice”. Meltdown 2013 featured a huge cross–section of artists including Savages, Kim Gordon, Siouxsie, Cibo Matto, Bo Ningen, Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Deerhoof, Patti Smith, Peaches, Marianne Faithfull, Boy George, Patrick Wolf, Reggie Watts, Viv Albertine, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pussy Riot and Immortal Technique. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Praise for Yoko’s performance at Meltdown 2013: “It’s a heck of a racket for a gal in her eighties – Yoko is the star but the music offers her the sky to shine in” The Independent “An international treasure shines. Ono has transcended age – she opened Meltdown 2013 with a blistering, thrilling, cutting-edge musical set which not so much pushed boundaries as ignored them” Evening Standard “Even at 80 Yoko is out on her Ono” Observer “Octogenarian’s standing elevated to the angel of the avant garde” The Guardian - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MOONBEAMS, the staggering opening track of the new album, was recently previewed on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/yokoono/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-moonbeams" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a>, ahead of its live premiere as the opening song of Meltdown 2013. Ono said today: “My new album comes at a very special time for me. I’m so happy that it’s being released after all the incredible shows that made up Meltdown. The energy I have right now, and the desire to continue to make as much great work as I can, is really moving me forwards 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.” Yoko Ono has a major art retrospective HALF-A WIND SHOW currently on view at the <a href="http://www.louisiana.dk/uk/Menu/Exhibitions/Yoko+Ono/YOKO+ONO+HALF-A-WIND+SHOW" target="_blank">Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen</a>, later opening at <a href="http://www.kunsthalle.at/en/kunsthalle-krems/exhibitions/yoko-ono" target="_blank">Kunsthalle Krems, Austria </a>on 20th November 2013, and another major art retrospective WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) opening on 15th November at the <a href="http://www.mca.com.au/exhibition/war-over-if-you-want-it-yoko-ono/" target="_blank">Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney</a>. TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL is released on September 17th.