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Between My Head The Sky

Artist: Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Label: Chimera Music
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 12576

Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 5 x 0.4

MPN: 10
UPC: 616892056362
EAN: 0616892056362
ASIN: B002HWON3Y

Release Date: September 21, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Tracks:

•	Waiting For The Sun
•	Sun Is Down, The
•	Ask The Elephant
•	Memory Of Footsteps
•	Moving Mountains
•	Calling
•	Healing
•	Hashire Hashire
•	Between My Head And The Sky
•	Feel The Sand
•	Watching The Rain
•	Unun To
•	I'm Going Away Smiling
•	Higa Noburu
•	I'm Alive

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5 out of 5 stars

YOKO ONO'S MOST OUTSTANDING GREATEST ALBUM EVER!!! September 29, 2009
FAMOUS NAME (UNITED KINGDOM)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful

br /WOW!! Where do I begin to describe this - Yoko's great new Album!? This has to be one of the most poignant, profound - inspirational and possibly most defining work of her long and lasting career! Quite a statement I know - considering Yoko's substantial and quality back catalogue. However, words fail me with this, since this contains some of the most beautiful Pieces of Art ever set to music by anyone! br / br /This Album was so eagerly awaited. I pre-ordered it (something I rarely do with CDs) and is the first Yoko Album I have purchased immediately upon release! This Album lived up to my expectations fifty fold and beyond! Whilst waiting for it to arrive, I could not help but to keep returning to the Amazon Page to listen to the 30 second Samples of each great Track! I was immediately hooked! br / br /Having recently purchased her son Sean's debut Album 'Into The Sun', (see my Review for that title) and knowing that this was a kind of 'collaboration' between the two - there would be no mistaking the teaming of two great talents together here would be quite remarkable! br / br /The Album however kicks off with a few Dance numbers, which are the usual 'cool' and high quality we have come to expect from Yoko, but as the Album progresses, it melts beautifully into what can only be described as the 'reflective' and 'subliminal' beauty that it is - climaxing with the bold statement: 'I'm Alive' - which for me, somehow winds the whole thing up magnificently! br / br /It is somewhat difficult to high-light the Tracks here, since this Album is all so superbly done, and so if I was asked to comment on each Piece in as few words as possible, then here goes: br / br /1) The opening Song is: 'Waiting For The D Train' which is probably your only 'average' Yoko Dance Track you will find in this Set - but after this, the 'usual' ends abruptly, and the 'difference' really begins, and Ono reaches new heights never achieved before in my opinion, and manages to surpass everything else she's ever done in terms of Art in music! br / br /2) 'The Sun Is Down!' is a really 'cool' dance Track - and probably her greatest to date with a really 'hooky' beat that you'll want to go on and on and will delight all! br / br /3) The 3rd Track is where Yoko notably brings a form of 'continuation' to most of her Albums. This time, it's in the guise of: 'Ask The Elephant' which follows on, and 'expands' somewhat on the Piece: 'Ask The Dragon' from her last but one Album: 'Rising'. (see my Review for that title) br / br /4) By the 4th Piece, this is where the real 'core' of this Masterpiece of Arty music from Yoko really starts to evolve - in the beautiful and somewhat 'deep': 'Memory Of Footsteps'. br / br /5) There's something new in Piece Five - for those of us who are familiar with Yoko's 'musical' vocal sounds. This is totally new and a real treat in the form of: 'Move Mountains' and is not so long a Track as most of her other Pieces in that particular genre. It is amazing to note here also, the immense control Ono still has over her clever vocal ability, and at her advanced age too! Unlike a few Singers somewhat younger than she, that really should have packed up by now as they can no longer manage it. Yoko still has what it takes and still does it with tremendous ease! br / br /6) The 6th Piece has a really 'groovy' beat to it and is entitled simply: 'Calling' - just DIG it!! br / br /7) The 7th Track has the mixture of both being hauntingly beautiful - with a touch of melancholia. - wonderful! This is entitled: 'Healing'. br / br /8) 'Hashire, Hashire', has a reggae-fied and 'catchy' beat that appeals instantly. Though one always feels they are missing out on something when Yoko does not speak/Sing her words in English - she does both on this Track. br / br /9) 'Between My Head And The Sky' is of course the title Track, and is used as the backing Track I stumbled upon once on a great Fashion Clip on YouTube - at the end of which there is an interesting Interview with Yoko and her son Sean (who collaborates with her here on this Album) and they speak briefly about working together and why. br / br /10) 'Feel The Sand' to me is a very unusual Piece, and could easily form part of a Relaxation Programme. I found myself simply closing my eyes to this, and just listening to Yoko's beautiful and meaningful words... br / br /11) 'Watching The Rain' to me, put simply, is a 'subliminal' sound all its own. br / br /12) 'Unun. To' is another, like an earlier Track - beautifully melancholic Piece, with some very wise words from Yoko! br / br /13) 'Going Away Smiling' is 'reflective', and gives an insight to perhaps how Yoko really feels about her own life. br / br /14) The penultimate Track is, I believe to be Ono's most beautiful Piece ever recorded entitled: 'Higa Noboru'. Once again; this has a melancholic flavour, but hauntingly beautiful too. This is closed by the shortest Piece and 'bold' statement 'I'm Alive' - which is the final Track that I just love and adore! br / br /In summing up, I would say that this Album is unique in Yoko Ono's work. It's an Album that has an exceptionally peaceful, calm and almost 'tranquil' collection (excepting a few) as its main basis and theme, and for that reason, will probably always stand out in Ono's fabulous and long career as an outstanding 'Artist' in modern music! br / br /Yoko's Albums are not known for their 'organisation' of having either a 'beginning', 'middle' and/or an 'end' - but this definitely has all three! br / br /How many women at nearly seventy-seven years' of age still record this kind of stuff!? Yoko Ono is perhaps the only Artist in several genres that is still turning out the kind of stuff that is still 'cool' enough to interest even a younger listening audience, whilst still maintaining her hardcore followers from four decades ago! Yoko Ono is probably the greatest Artist of 'Arty' music of both this, and the last century, and we are fortunate enough to still have her with us! I find myself always listening to her lyrics/words which for the most part in popular music go right over the top of my head... br / br /No Track here is over-long, and this is most definitely one of the most significant and meaningful Albums I have ever bought in my Collection! br / br /Yoko - please don't make us wait so long again - the world of Art in music still needs your contributions!! br / br / br /Note: . Also includes some great Art from Yoko in the form of a small booklet, which was done during the 90s.

5 out of 5 stars

A MASTERMINDED SONIC SPHERE! September 27, 2009
HELENE RAMOS (LIMA/PERU)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

YOKO ONO,has always had the magic at the moment of conceiving explicit ART! Her vanguardism even so much before of being known around all the globe puts her in a scale of EVOLUTIONISM. Throughout all these years and before them,this lady has always been going beyond and beyond and beyond... talking about GREAT music and I'm still waiting a record of her, recorded together with BJORK! This sonic gem is masterminded like an aurora borealis of styles and adopted them in great form! In Peru,my radio show:2001_ONETHOUSANDYEARSAFTER! as always, has played on first for a great audience of maximalist minds this disc, like most of her identified sonic flying objects! Keep up the very good job lady,and you...BUY OR BUY THIS SONIC GEM! br / br /HELENE RAMOS GALAGARZA br /peruvian journalist /cyber dj/promoter producer br /editor/writer/radio producer host/designer br /[]

4 out of 5 stars

Still Defiantly Different September 27, 2009
DSF (Amish country)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

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.

4 out of 5 stars

Renewed Plastic Ono Band October 28, 2009
Janow (Norway)
Yoko Ono with The Plastic Ono Band - some 36 years since their last release 'Feel the Space', are obviously still going strong! The music style is new, and in many ways the singing seems more deliberately controlled (but isn't that what it was in 1969-1973 too?), but there's no doubt about it: this is Yoko at her brilliant best!

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