A blog dedicated to Yoko Ono.
By Cara (thecurvature)
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Fuck Yeah John & Yoko
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YokoKimThurston and John Cage ‘Shock’: Yoko Ono has been making interesting music for 50 years. →
Similarly, Ono’s participation on another new-to-market CD, YokoKimThurston, makes that recording one of the best experimental Sonic Youth side-projects—and there have been many—to come out in some time. Brokenhearted fans of the band who may be hoping for at least a creative reconciliation between Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore shouldn’t get their hopes up based on their appearance with Ono here: YokoKimThurston was recorded in February 2011, before the couple’s recent divorce. When Gordon and Moore told me about the anticipated project during a 2009 interview, they thought it might come out on SYR, Sonic Youth’s boutique label for way-out-there experimentation.
Instead, Chimera Music is putting it out. Run in part by Ono’s son Sean Lennon, it’s the same label the family used in 2009 to put out Ono’s best song-based album in a couple decades, Between My Head and the Sky. YokoKimThurston is, in contrast, not an album of songs: If you go in expecting pop forms—which Ono has also shown a facility for, over the years—you’ll wind up frustrated, possibly cursing experimental art on the whole and feeling sad about the $10-$15 you just spent.
If you listen for texture, on the other hand, and for the unfolding of an experiment guided by expert experimenters, you’ll find a lot on YokoKimThurston to hold your attention. Ono’s delicate exploration of vocal technique on the mostly wordless-but-haunting opener, “I Missed You Listening,” puts the lie to her screaming-only reputation. And when Gordon joins Ono for an odd sort of duet, we get two of avant-rock’s most celebrated (and divisive) female vocalists working together for the first time. That needed to happen.
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Yoko Ono / Thurston Moore / Kim Gordon present a 14-minute avant track called In The Morning.
It’s available on 10” vinyl and as a digital download. I didn’t know what to expect, but morbid curiosity made me order the download for $2.00, just to hear a collaboration between the now-divorced members of Sonic Youth.
As far as I can tell, they provided the drones and noise while Yoko chants above them, with some extra Kim breathiness. I’ve heard worse released by Sonic Youth, and it has a kind of Eastern vibe to it, if only from Yoko’s chants. The backing music reminds me of earlier, independent Sonic Youth rather than the slicker, post-95 flavour.
Get it at the Chimera Music site, if you have a spare $2 and an adventurous ear.
