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Antony & Yoko: “I Love You Earth” & “I’m Going Away Smiling”

In honor of Yoko Ono‘s 82nd birthday, the singer has collaborated with Antony and John Zorn on two new limited edition 10″ vinyl releases.

The first is called Antony & Yoko and features a duet on Ono’s “I Love You Earth”, along with Antony’s solo rendition of Ono’s “I’m Going Away Smiling”.

The second is called Yoko Ono & John Zorn, and features an improvisation between the two called “Blink” that was performed on WNYC back in 2012. More info here. Antony & Yoko
ANTONY & YOKO
“I Love You Earth”
“I’m Going Away Smiling”
Chimera Music Release No. 16

Antony interprets two powerful Yoko Ono songs in the studio, with Thomas Bartlett on piano, and joined by Yoko on a moving vocal duet on “I Love You Earth.” Antony’s interpretation of “I’m Going Away Smiling” is stark and haunting.

• Proceeds to benefit the […]

Yoko Ono & John Zorn – Blink

In honor of Yoko Ono‘s 82nd birthday, the singer has collaborated with Antony and John Zorn on two new limited edition 10″ vinyl releases.

The first is called Antony & Yoko and features a duet on Ono’s “I Love You Earth”, along with Antony’s solo rendition of Ono’s “I’m Going Away Smiling”. More info here.

The second is called Yoko Ono & John Zorn, and features an improvisation between the two called “Blink” that was performed on WNYC back in 2012. iTunes_Zorn
YOKO ONO & JOHN ZORN
“Blink”
Chimera Music Release No. 26
An intense, wild improvisation by two masters of the avant garde, celebrating the 25th Anniversary of David Garland’s Spinning On Air radio program, Yoko performed “Blink”, an improvisation with saxophonist John Zorn, live on WNYC at the station’s Greene Space on November 14, 2012. The duo have performed together on just a […]

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band play MoMA NYC on Aug 14 & 15, 2015


An Evening with YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND

Friday 14 Aug 2015
MoMA Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, New York, USA
Tickets

Saturday 15 Aug 2015
MoMA Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, New York, USA
Tickets

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND

Featuring YOKO ONO with
Denardo Coleman, drums
Erik Friedlander, cello
Alan Licht, guitar

7:00 p.m. Doors
7:30 p.m. Performance

Titus 2 Theater
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, New York USA

About YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND

Around 1968, Ono decided to create a band “that would never exist… that didn’t have a set number of members… that could accommodate anyone who wanted to play with it.” The name derived from a small three-dimensional work—composed almost entirely of transparent plastic objects—that John Lennon made in response to Ono’s initial idea. Although conceptually Plastic Ono Band had no members, in practice it had a flexible lineup.

YOKO […]

Yoko Ono on The Late Show with David Letterman with Sean, Charlotte & The Flaming Lips

Thank you, Flaming Lips for joining YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND for The Late Show with David Letterman and suprising me, in return, by inviting me to The Flaming Lips sold out show last night at Terminal 5 and playing DON’T WORRY KYOKO with me. That was such a sweet gesture. It was great fun!
love, yoko

Wayne Coyne & Yoko Ono by Sean Ono Lennon
Picture of Wayne Coyne & Yoko Ono by Sean Ono Lennon

Wayne Coyne & Yoko Ono
#YokoOno joined the #FlamingLips onstage during their epic set in New York last night to perform 1971’s “Don’t Worry Kyoko.”
Photo: Joe Papeo/@irocktheshot

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band with RZA – Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City / Seed Of Joy / Life Is A Struggle


YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND & RZA

Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City
/ Seed Of Joy / Life Is A Struggle
Live at The Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, USA – 1 Oct 2010

10″ Single, Chimera Records CHIM017
Released 9 September 2013

Limited to 1,000 one-sided 10″ singles with a Yoko Ono etching on the flip side.
All net profits of the download and vinyl sales will go to The Children’s Literacy Society, which provides after-school enrichment programs for at-risk children in Staten Island, NY.

Preorder the 10″ single from Chimera Music or RecordStore.co.uk

SEED OF JOY / LIFE IS A STRUGGLE

My mind flashed back to the early moon
When I was just a sperm cell in the fallopian tube
In the midst of a state of triple darkness
Going through a struggle so I could […]

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band with Iggy Pop – Waiting For The D. Train

 

“The ‘D’ stands for death, so the thing is, you’re waiting for death, in a way. And while you’re waiting for death, a lot of things go on in your life. Separations or pain or some beautiful joy, all this stuff happens. And then in the end [of the ‘Between My Head And The Sky‘ album is] the song called “Higa Noboru,” which means “The Sun is Rising.” After the D Train, The Sun Is Down. And then the sun is rising, and I’m saying “I’m still alive.” It’s going into the new era, a new age. We’re gonna go to a new age together. That’s what it means.”
Yoko Ono, 2012.

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND & IGGY POP

Waiting For The D. Train – Live at The Orpheum Theatre, LA, 1 Oct […]

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND play Bowery Ballroom NYC 15 Sept; Tix onsale 2 Aug

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND
The Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St, New York, NY, 10002
http://www.boweryballroom.com/

Sun, September 15, 2013
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Tickets: $30
On Sale Fri 8/02 12:00 pm EDT
This event is 18 and over

A rare performance by YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, celebrating the release of the new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL. This show marks the pinnacle of an astonishing bout of creativity for Ono, who celebrated her 80th year with major museum retrospectives in Europe, her 10th #1 hit on the Billboard Dance Chart, the publication of her instruction book Acorn, and curating the hugely successful Meltdown Festival in London.

Says Yoko: “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 […]

Yoko Ono & Thurston Moore – Festival Dates August 2013

Yoko Ono & Thurston Moore are playing 4 Festival dates in August 2013, combining vocals, guitar, drums and spectacular visuals from Yoko and Thurston’s film archives.

7 Aug Tranatlantyk Festival, Poznan, Poland

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10 Aug Kampnagel Sommerfestival, Hamburg, Germany

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18 Aug Huvila Festival, Helsinki, Finland

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19 Aug Huvila Festival, Helsinki, Finland

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More on Yoko & Thurston here.

London Evening Standard: Review: YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, Royal Festival Hall, London

by John Aizlewood, Evening Standard, 17 June 2013.

★★★★

She may have turned 80 in February but Yoko Ono is still capable of turning heads and minds. Not looking a day over 60, as mentally sharp as ever, Ono has transcended age. She opened Meltdown 2013 (which she’s curating) with a blistering, thrilling, cutting-edge music-as-art set, which not so much pushed boundaries as ignored them. Like some cocksure 70-year-old kid, she even had the chutzpah to begin with the new Moonbeams, which started as rumination and finished in a frenzied, freeform barrage of transfixing noise.

How times change. Once reviled, she’s now an international treasure and the world has finally caught up with the music of Ono and her seven-strong Plastic Ono Band which included her son Sean Ono Lennon (“what are we gonna play next, mum?”) and, in the Linda McCartney role, Lennon’s girlfriend, Charlotte Kemp Muhl.

To […]