Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
Fly 2LP

What you hear on Fly is 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 Midsummer New York 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 Mind Train 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, Mind Train might not sound totally out of place on Davis’s Jack Johnson or On The Corner. Then, we have the absolutely gutting blues of Don’t Worry, Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For Her Hand in The Snow). 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. Don’t Worry... is the only song on Fly 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 Mrs. Lennon, 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 Fly. Dig deep, traveler, it’s worth the climb.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 1971 / Reissue 2017

Tracklist:

A1 Midsummer New York

A2 Mindtrain

B1 Mind Holes

B2 Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)

B3 Mrs. Lennon

B4 Hirake

B5 Toilet Piece / Unknown

B6 O'Wind (Body Is The Scar Of Your Mind)

C1 Airmale

C2 Don't Count The Waves

C3 You

D1 Fly

D2 Telephone Piece