John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music, No.1: Two Virgins

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.

Turns out the very sound of falling in love is just as abstract, subjective and loopy as the concept itself. Yoko Ono and John Lennon are two of history's greatest lovers, and Two Virgins is the musique concrete fever dream document of the pair falling in love in real time. It's a Cageian suite recorded over one weekend in Spring 1968 at Lennon's Kenwood home: Distant conversations; comedic role playing and footsteps; laughter, birdcalls and plunking piano lines; silly songs and space; tape delay stretching shrieks, bass rumbles and moans to the moon and back again.

It's two young people attempting to weird one another out, attempting to make one another laugh, falling deeply into one another. John mucks around with delay and loops while Yoko exercises her expressionist vocalizations. The smoke and wine is nearly audible. This reissue also includes "Remember Love," which did not appear on the original release.

Side One

Side Two

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