{"title":"Yoko Ono","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, and peace activist. Born on February 18, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan, she is widely known as the wife of John Lennon from 1969 until his death in 1980. Yoko Ono is also the mother of Sean Lennon and was previously married to Toshi Ichiyanagi from 1956 to 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith her unique artistic style and powerful message of peace, Yoko Ono has made a significant impact on the art world. Her work spans various mediums including music, visual arts, and performance art. As an influential figure in the avant-garde movement, she has inspired countless artists around the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYoko Ono's music can be described as experimental and boundary-pushing. She has collaborated with notable musicians such as John Cale and Ringo Starr. Some similar artists who share her innovative spirit include Laurie Anderson, Nico, Scott Walker, and Robert Wyatt.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"approximately-infinite-universe","title":"Approximately Infinite Universe","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere’s a fury at the core of Yoko Ono’s 1973 rock opus \u003ci\u003eApproximately Infinite Universe \u003c\/i\u003ethat was not apparent on previously recorded efforts. Ono has always been a master of turning pain and sadness into art, but here, there’s a clenched-fist intensity that sets it apart in her deep, unparalleled catalogue. Ono is angry. She proved that one can carry a boundless love for humanity and still be furious - furious at male \/ female relationships, at war, at your partner. Meanwhile, on a sonic level, Ono ups the ante on the more centered rock-n-roll sounds she approached with 1971’s\u003ci\u003e Fly\u003c\/i\u003e. Backed by members of New York band Elephant's Memory, with limited guitar contributions from John Lennon (listed as Joel Nohnn), the album is also one of the most traditional-sounding rock chapters in Ono's sprawling catalogue. There are moments here that absolutely rival Jersey legends the E Street Band, though of course Ono’s vision leads her band down darker, more mystical paths than the E Street Band ever dared tread. \u003ci\u003eApproximately Infinite Universe\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential and progressive piece of Ono’s output, both in the advancements she made as a songwriter \/ conceptualist, and as a solidified statement of her staunch feminist role within the very male-dominated mainstream rock ghetto of the mid-1970's. Add this powerful feminist statement to the fact that the music business in 1973 was in its post-Woodstock explosion: A\u0026amp;R men, radio programmers, marketing execs, booking agents: men with a chokehold over the business, and Yoko's entry into it a complete question mark to them all. Ono absolutely intended to boggle the boys' club of the music industry. Fast-forward to today, and \u003ci\u003eApproximately Infinite Universe\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a template for powerful female artists to follow in the years ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50387911377227,"sku":"1012943","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50387917570379,"sku":"1012942","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f3825ffc-851f-409b-b67d-e003edae11c7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726338283"},{"product_id":"fly","title":"Fly","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat you hear on \u003ci\u003eFly \u003c\/i\u003eis Ono’s disarming combination of opacity and visceral, personal transparency in full bloom. It’s also one of the most unbridled, most captivating soul albums ever made. And that’s right where she wants you: Vulnerable, wide open to any-and-everything, ready to have your world tipped onto its head. She’s a master of spinning your head around. First, you get the Bar Band from Hell of \u003ci\u003eMidsummer New York\u003c\/i\u003e to kick things off. It’s about the last thing you’d expect from Ono coming off Plastic Ono Band. But here you are, listening to Ono channeling Elvis. At 16-minute-plus, the tranced-out, motorik-inspired boogie \u003ci\u003eMind Train\u003c\/i\u003e is rough-and-ready for your next basement get down. Movement and perspiration required. Ono’s band of session heavy hitters burrows deep in a sort-of locomotive raga while Ono’s punchy vocables and rhythmic syllables do interpretive dances around one another. If Ono’s voice were Miles Davis’s trumpet, \u003ci\u003eMind Train\u003c\/i\u003e might not sound totally out of place on Davis’s Jack Johnson or On The Corner. Then, we have the absolutely gutting blues of \u003ci\u003eDon’t Worry, Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For Her Hand in The Snow)\u003c\/i\u003e. Full of ache and raw emotion, the song is a love note, a plea for forgiveness, to her estranged daughter Kyoko shot across the universe on a flaming arrow. \u003ci\u003eDon’t Worry...\u003c\/i\u003e is the only song on \u003ci\u003eFly\u003c\/i\u003e to feature the truly legendary line-up of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman — all masters laying down a totally crude assault on the blues form. Ono follows this stampede of emotion with the self-referential torch song \u003ci\u003eMrs. Lennon\u003c\/i\u003e, a wounded - personally wounded, spiritually wounded - song that gets right into the Universal Loneliness. And so here you are. You’re devastated. You're exhausted. You're exhilarated. And you’re only 1\/4 of the way up the mountain that is \u003ci\u003eFly\u003c\/i\u003e. Dig deep, traveler, it’s worth the climb. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Double Black Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP+ - Limited Double White Vinyl with Download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50405685985611,"sku":"1012939","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50405689688395,"sku":"1012940","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e1241ff9-f4ea-4e60-bf2f-4f8c19881dd9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726580702"},{"product_id":"warzone","title":"Warzone","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing twenty albums over 50 years, Yoko Ono's \u003ci\u003eWarzone\u003c\/i\u003e is strikingly different from any record she has made previously, but it is also strikingly different from any album that anyone is making... Yoko revisits and reimagines 13 songs from her past work, spanning 1970-2009, the lyrics and messages still pertinent - perhaps even more pertinent - in 2018. \"The world is so messed up. Things are very difficult for everybody. It's a warzone that we are living in...\" says Ono. \"I like to create things in a new way. Every day things change.\" The recordings and arrangements on \u003ci\u003eWarzone\u003c\/i\u003e are very stripped down, with a particular emphasis on Yoko's voice and lyrics. Here in this minimalist landscape the content of her message rings clear and unencumbered; sometimes somber warnings, sometimes uplifting encouragement, but her wisdom and fortitude are unflinchingly strong, her power having intensified with time and life experience. She ends the ominous questions of \u003ci\u003eNow Or Never\u003c\/i\u003e (1971) with one of her most famous and inspiring lines: \"[a] Dream you dream alone is only a dream, but dream we dream together is reality.\" \u003ci\u003eWarzone\u003c\/i\u003e further builds the legacy of an artist unparalleled in her unique and singular vision. At 85 years young, Ono is already plotting her next album... It is not too late to change the world. We need Yoko now more than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chimera Music","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50456565285195,"sku":"1042270","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c91868de-f2a2-4c36-b951-3ddf445b7244_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727199537"},{"product_id":"plastic-ono-band","title":"Plastic Ono Band","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis long-overdue reissue of Yoko Ono’s seminal, but massively under-appreciated \u003ci\u003eYoko Ono Plastic Ono Band\u003c\/i\u003e 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. This reissue also includes four additional songs - \u003ci\u003eOpen Your Box, Something More Abstract, Why (Extended Version)\u003c\/i\u003e, and The South Wind - that did not appear on the original release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - With Download including Bonus Tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Clear Vinyl with Download including Bonus Tracks\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50494553260363,"sku":"1001029","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494554407243,"sku":"1001030","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1b41870-f0dd-4f8f-8440-548e212a2acb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727706582"},{"product_id":"season-of-glass","title":"Season of Glass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo mark the 45th anniversary of its release, Secretly Canadian release Ono’s seminal 1981 album \u003cem\u003eSeason of Glass\u003c\/em\u003e, as an expanded CD, and on vinyl for the first time in more than forty-five years, with expanded and enhanced artwork. 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I felt like a person soaked in blood coming into a living room full of people and reporting that my husband was dead, his body was taken away, and the pair of glasses were the only thing I had managed to salvage – and people looking at me saying it was in bad taste to show the glasses to them.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBacked by the same band that had played on Double Fantasy, the sound of Season of Glass sits in alignment next to that album, which at the time was already considered an artistic triumph for Ono, who was inspiring young artists like the B-52s and Sonic Youth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the years since its release, the honest, loving, sometimes harrowing nature of the songs on Season of Glass have meant that it has only gained in stature. Now universally embraced as a powerful artistic statement about grief and loss, it is considered a landmark release, and among Ono’s best works; a fully realized artistic statement. Ultimately, Season of Glass is a stunning, cathartic listen. 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