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Track Listings
| 1. Waiting for the D Train |
| 2. The Sun Is Down! |
| 3. Ask the Elephant! |
| 4. Memory of Footsteps |
| 5. Moving Mountains |
| 6. Calling |
| 7. Healing |
| 8. Hashire, Hashire |
| 9. Between My Head and the Sky |
| 10. Feel the Sand |
| 11. Watching the Rain |
| 12. Unun. To |
| 13. I'm Going Away Smiling |
| 14. Higa Noboru |
Editorial Reviews
2009 release. At 76 years young, Yoko continues to kick ass. Between My Head & The Sky is a career-defining album made with her new Plastic Ono Band. The record is a gorgeous, mind-melting blend of styles, restating and sharpening themes while plunging into the always-mysterious future. The band includes Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada and his band members Yuko Araki and Shimmy Shimizu, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto) as well as NYC improvisers Erik Friedlander, Shahzad Ismaily, Michael Leonhart, Daniel Carter and Indigo Street.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
By VD2400
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Yoko Ono's new album is an amazing piece of work/art. It's a beautiful album that blends her past music to her present music. This is an album awaited for many years from her many fans. The album is perfection and couldn't be better. Her vocals are as strong and perfect as ever! May Yoko Ono bring us more art and music very very soon because her many fans have waited too long. May there be a US tour as well! Small towns have many Yoko Ono fans as well as the cities! May the queen of art keep bringing us music and art to learn from! I love you Yoko!
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Her new album kicks off in style with a funky rockin' freak out, "Waiting For The D Train." When I first saw that title as the album opener, I thought that perhaps the 76 year old artist had images of death on her mind. Was this album a quiet farewell?
Nothing like. Well, something like- but certainly not that opening number. When was the last time you heard an album open like this- let alone an album by a 76 year old?
The album changes gear often, and sometimes dramatically, as Yoko wrestles with ideas of her lovers, legacy, life, and oncoming death. Stand out tracks are the danceable "The Sun is Down," the psychedelic "Calling," the hard hitting "Between My Head And The Sky," and the dreamy "Feel The Sand."
The album readies for the close with a trio of songs led by piano- an instrument that weighs heavily in Yoko's life and home. Here Yoko seems her most open and contemplative. As she invokes images of shuddering coughs, invisible walls, and those she'll leave behind- she also asks, "why is this life so beautiful?"
The last track on the album is a sweet surprise, and reminds us that Yoko is at heart an earnest, funny, soul.
Nothing like. Well, something like- but certainly not that opening number. When was the last time you heard an album open like this- let alone an album by a 76 year old?
The album changes gear often, and sometimes dramatically, as Yoko wrestles with ideas of her lovers, legacy, life, and oncoming death. Stand out tracks are the danceable "The Sun is Down," the psychedelic "Calling," the hard hitting "Between My Head And The Sky," and the dreamy "Feel The Sand."
The album readies for the close with a trio of songs led by piano- an instrument that weighs heavily in Yoko's life and home. Here Yoko seems her most open and contemplative. As she invokes images of shuddering coughs, invisible walls, and those she'll leave behind- she also asks, "why is this life so beautiful?"
The last track on the album is a sweet surprise, and reminds us that Yoko is at heart an earnest, funny, soul.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By DSF
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I don't love Yoko, but I like her a lot :) BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY is a mostly very solid piece of work, considerably better than 2001's BLUEPRINT FOR A SUNRISE. Some of the tracks may sound half-finished, with vocals and lyrics that are an awkward fit to the music, but when BETWEEN succeeds, as it does most of the time, it's quite a heady listening experience. The title track is classic Yoko: funky, fierce, and darkly funny. And I imagine even longtime Yoko detractors could come away from touching ballads "I'm Going Away Smiling," "Unun. To," and "Higa Noboru" feeling their hardened hearts at least a little softened.
By the way, be sure to check out Ono's collaboration with Basement Jaxx, "Day Of The Sunflowers (We March On)." It's on the Basement Jaxx album SCARS, and it's crazy kooky brilliant.
By the way, be sure to check out Ono's collaboration with Basement Jaxx, "Day Of The Sunflowers (We March On)." It's on the Basement Jaxx album SCARS, and it's crazy kooky brilliant.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars
bag lady
she needs to get back in a sak and have eric clapton throw her off the stage. or better yet the ocean
Published 15 months ago by D. L. Blair
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the Tops of 2009
Electro-funk meets cool jazz meets new age meets melodious pop meets spoken word. East meets west, north and south-we are all water, perhaps someday we will evaporate together(ha). Read more
Published 19 months ago by Jerry Dunham
5.0 out of 5 stars
YOKO'S MASTER-PEACE
Thank GOD For YOKO, I Didn't Think She Could Get Any Better>>>>
If I Even THINK Of "I'M GOING AWAY SMILING" I Cry.
A MASTER-PEACE>>>>JOHN Is Smiling YOKO!!! Read more
If I Even THINK Of "I'M GOING AWAY SMILING" I Cry.
A MASTER-PEACE>>>>JOHN Is Smiling YOKO!!! Read more
Published 23 months ago by Glenn A. Greenberg
5.0 out of 5 stars
Be There or Be Square :-{D}
I saw Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band perform music from this CD at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA, February 2010. Yoko really rocked! Read more
Published on September 11, 2010 by Jokie X Wilson
1.0 out of 5 stars
Give Mark David Chapman a weekend pass and a gun to finish the job!
Imagine yourself in an alternate universe where, on the night of December 8th 1980, Mark David Chapman's poor eyesight caused him to miss John and hit Yoko. Read more
Published on June 13, 2010 by Aparato SuperSonico
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Must Have For Yoko Ono Lovers!
Yoko's creativity has not faded over the years, it has just become more refined. She is backed by the latest incarnation of the Plastic Ono Band, and these backing musicians are... Read more
Published on February 27, 2010 by Trinity21
5.0 out of 5 stars
Approximately Infinite Universe meets Rising !
Very few important albums are released these days.
THIS is an important album. The illusive "Plastic Ono Band" flys again, and this time, modern music is almost caught up to... Read more
THIS is an important album. The illusive "Plastic Ono Band" flys again, and this time, modern music is almost caught up to... Read more
Published on February 13, 2010 by Michael D. Myers
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible
I agree with the other reviewer who said this would be a great gag gift or something to give someone to torture or torment them! Read more
Published on January 30, 2010 by W. STEVENS
5.0 out of 5 stars
surprisingly good
not surprising because it's yoko, but surprising because of the sound(s). if you took yoko's name and face off the cd, a lot of people would like it a lot more. Read more
Published on December 14, 2009 by Arnab Chakladar
3.0 out of 5 stars
Yoko is an artist, no doubt about that
Bought it for a friend, and also listened to it. As a conceptual artist Yoko is amazing. The lyric poetry here is very insightful and provocative, written side by side in... Read more
Published on December 12, 2009 by A. Visconti
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