Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band Announce Release Of New Album
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
Yoko Ono has confirmed she will release her brand new album 'Take Me To The Land Of Hell' on Chimera Music on September 16. The album comes four years after her previous studio album 'Between My Head And The Sky' which received rave reviews and was voted one of Mojo Magazine’s Albums Of the Year. That same year Ono was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo for her ground-breaking music and art.
'Take Me To The Land Of Hell' was recorded in New York and was produced by Yoko, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band also includes members of Cornelius and CiboMatto, plus – for this album – tUnEyArDs, Questlove, Nels Cline and Andrew Wyatt. The album includes remixes by Mike D and Adrock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada.
The record was planned and made during a hugely productive period which saw Ono’s 2012 show To The Light at London’s Serpentine Gallery break attendance records. She then went on to open Half-A-Room, a major retrospective in Frankfurt, finish the book Acorn, travel extensively to oversee various museum shows, score her 10th Number 1 hit Hold Me on the Billboard Dance Chart, win the MTV O Music Award for 'Digital Genius' and – most recently – plan the Meltdown Festival in London, 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.
Moonbeams, the opening track of the new album, was recently previewed on Soundcloud, ahead of its live premiere as the opening song of Meltdown 2013.
Ono said: “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 will have a major art retrospective opening in November at MOCA in Sydney.
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