Name: Fly
Brand: Yoko Ono

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SC282cd

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-07-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

656605028224

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Yoko Ono

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Secretly Canadian

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, and peace activist. Born on February 18, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan, she is widely known as the wife of John Lennon from 1969 until his death in 1980. Yoko Ono is also the mother of Sean Lennon and was previously married to Toshi Ichiyanagi from 1956 to 1962.

With her unique artistic style and powerful message of peace, Yoko Ono has made a significant impact on the art world. Her work spans various mediums including music, visual arts, and performance art. As an influential figure in the avant-garde movement, she has inspired countless artists around the globe.

Yoko Ono's music can be described as experimental and boundary-pushing. She has collaborated with notable musicians such as John Cale and Ringo Starr. Some similar artists who share her innovative spirit include Laurie Anderson, Nico, Scott Walker, and Robert Wyatt.

What you hear on Fly is Ono’s disarming combination of opacity and visceral, personal transparency in full bloom. It’s also one of the most unbridled, most captivating soul albums ever made. And that’s right where she wants you: Vulnerable, wide open to any-and-everything, ready to have your world tipped onto its head. She’s a master of spinning your head around. First, you get the Bar Band from Hell of Midsummer New York to kick things off. It’s about the last thing you’d expect from Ono coming off Plastic Ono Band. But here you are, listening to Ono channeling Elvis. At 16-minute-plus, the tranced-out, motorik-inspired boogie Mind Train is rough-and-ready for your next basement get down. Movement and perspiration required. Ono’s band of session heavy hitters burrows deep in a sort-of locomotive raga while Ono’s punchy vocables and rhythmic syllables do interpretive dances around one another. If Ono’s voice were Miles Davis’s trumpet, Mind Train might not sound totally out of place on Davis’s Jack Johnson or On The Corner. Then, we have the absolutely gutting blues of Don’t Worry, Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For Her Hand in The Snow). Full of ache and raw emotion, the song is a love note, a plea for forgiveness, to her estranged daughter Kyoko shot across the universe on a flaming arrow. Don’t Worry... is the only song on Fly to feature the truly legendary line-up of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman — all masters laying down a totally crude assault on the blues form. Ono follows this stampede of emotion with the self-referential torch song Mrs. Lennon, a wounded - personally wounded, spiritually wounded - song that gets right into the Universal Loneliness. And so here you are. You’re devastated. You're exhausted. You're exhilarated. And you’re only 1/4 of the way up the mountain that is Fly. Dig deep, traveler, it’s worth the climb.

2LP+ - Limited Double White Vinyl with Download.

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