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Artist | Yoko Ono
Title | Fly
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 103:35
Label | Secretly Canadian Store | 2017
Catalog | SC282 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 243 kbps Size | 190.92 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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CD 1/2
01. Midsummer New York 3:51
02. Mindtrain 16:53
03. Mind Holes 2:47
04. Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In 4:55
The Snow)
05. Mrs. Lennon 4:12
06. Hirake 3:31
07. Toilet Piece / Unknown 0:30
08. O'Wind (Body Is The Scar Of Your Mind) 5:23
CD 2/2
01. Airmale 10:43
02. Don't Count The Waves 5:25
03. You 8:59
04. Fly 22:52
05. Telephone Piece 0:33
06. Between The Takes (Bonus Track) 1:58
07. Will You Touch Me (Bonus Track) 2:47
08. The Path (Bonus Track) 5:42
09. Head Play (Medley: You / Airmale / Fly) (Bonus Track) 2:34
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Few women in the history of rock & roll have stirred as much controversy as
Yoko Ono. Although her romance with John Lennon was hardly the only factor
straining the relationships between the individual Beatles, she made a
convenient scapegoat for the group's breakup, and was repeatedly raked over
the coals in the media for the influence she held over Lennon, both in his
life and his music. Ono's own work as an artist and musician didn't
mitigate the public's enmity toward her; to the average man on the street,
her avant-garde conceptual art seemed bizarre and ridiculous, and her
highly experimental rock & roll (which often spotlighted her primal vocals)
was simply too abrasive to tolerate.
By the time "Fly" emerged in 1971, the battle lines had long been drawn,
and those who preferred to place Ono's domestic situation rather than her
music in the foreground were never going to give it a fair shake. Very much
their loss - not only is it that rarest of all beasts, a 70's double album
that rewards repeated listening, but "Fly" also shows the work of a
creative artist working with a sympathetic set of backing players to create
inspired, varied songs. At points, the appeal lies simply in Ono's implicit
'to heck with you' approach to singing - compositions like "Midsummer New
York" are easygoing rock chug that won't surprise many, but it's her take
on high-pitched soul and quivering delivery that transforms them into
something else.
The screwy blues yowl of "Don't Worry Kyoko" is something else again,
suggesting something off Led Zeppelin III gone utterly berserk. Meanwhile,
check the fragile, pretty acoustic guitar of "Mind Holes," her singing
swooping in the background like a lost ghost, while the reflective "Mrs.
Lennon", as wry but heartfelt a portrait of her position in the public eye
as any, ended up being used by Alex Chilton for "Holocaust", which gives a
good sense of the sad tug of the melody. Perhaps the best measure of "Fly"
is how Ono ended up inventing Krautrock, or perhaps more seriously bringing
the sense of motorik's pulse and slow-building tension to an
English-language audience.
There weren't many artists of her profile in America getting trancey,
heavy-duty songs like "Mindtrain" and the murky ambient howls of "Airmale"
out to an English-language audience. Such songs readily match the work of
Can, another band with a Japanese vocalist taking things to a higher level.
As for "Fly" itself, the mostly unaccompanied wails and trills from Ono
will confirm stereotypes in many folks' minds, but it's a strange, often
beautiful performance that follows its own logic.
Remastered in 2017 and released by Secretly Canadian.
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