Yoko Ono - Plastic Ono Band

Part of the Yoko Ono reissue project from Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music

Painstakingly reproduced vinyl packaging and remastered audio

Remastered from the original tapes by Greg Calbi and Sean Lennon

The Secretly Canadian record label is partnering with Chimera Music on releasing Yoko Ono‘s essential musical output from 1968 to 1985. The reissue project's focus is to painstakingly reconstruct the original vinyl packaging, to thoroughly excavate and appropriately curate the treasure-laden archives of never-before-seen photos and ephemera, and to re-master the audio, all for the purpose of creating the definitive editions of this timeless work. The vinyl was re-mastered from the original tapes by Greg Calbi and Sean Lennon.

This long-overdue vinyl reissue of Yoko Ono's seminal, but massively under-appreciated Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band has all the makings of a classic rock nostalgia trip: Ono, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman. All the pieces are here to stir up a dangerous amount of nostalgia. But once the needle drops, the record achieves something exactly perpendicular to nostalgia.

Released in 1971, the album not only influenced the approach of other musicians for decades, it also sounds absolutely modern 44 years out, eternally fresh despite the forward march of time. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band not only predicted the intersection of the avant-garde and rock that would take place in the second half of that decade, the album would sound right at home at where that intersection is happening today. Our reissue also includes four additional songs — "Open Your Box," "Something More Abstract," "Why (Extended Version)," and "The South Wind" — that did not appear on the original release.

Side 1

Why

Why Not

Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City

Side 2

AOS

Touch Me

Paper Shoes

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