BAM! Suddenly the audience started to sing Happy Birthday to me right in the middle of the sing along GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! That was such a nice surprise. I was so unprepared for it, I don’t even remember if I had thanked the audience or not. Did I? There was so much love circulating, it didn’t seem necessary to say anything… We were family. The curtain went down after GIVE PEACE A CHANCE. Sean and I looked at each other. Sean’s eyes were twinkling. “You were great.” said Sean. “So were you.” It was a grand moment. We knew we had been witnesses to something that was bigger than both of us.
For her third solo album for Tzadik Records’ Oracles series, releases that “celebrate the diversity and creativity of women in experimental music making”, Yuka Honda delivers another fascinating, mostly instrumental set, this time using her programming and production skills to create what the label describes as “a hypnotic groove for young moderns”.
Featuring two co-writes with Sean Lennon, with whom she currently performs in Yoko Ono’s regenerated Plastic Ono Band, and three with horns arranger Michael Leonhart (who also guests on percussion, keyboards and vibraphone), Heart Chamber Phantoms looks sets to be her most ambitious solo outing to date. Regular collaborators Dougie Brown (drums) and Courtney Kaiser (vocals) are among the other guests.
Dear Friends
A BIG THANKYOU to over 200 remixers who took part in the THE SUN IS DOWN! remix competition.
The 20 prizewinning remixers are:
Bill Kates, Billy Martin, Damien Price, DJ Chernobyl, Jorge Artajo, King Louis & Mighty Jay, Konrad Behr, Mabarak, Madeon, Nick Vernier Band, Pedro Vainer, Posterboys, Rondo Brothers, Rumours of Whores, Ugh/Satanicpornocultshop, Shuji Nabara, [...]
Dear Friends
Thankyou all so much for the overwhelming response to the THE SUN IS DOWN! remix competition!
We were surprised that they were all of a very high standard, which we have not counted on.
We’ve now realized that we need more time in order to give a good listening to all of your remixes and arrive [...]
Sean Lennon recently released a new CD, a soundtrack for a low-budget vampire flick, entitled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead. He composed the moody, instrumental score on his home computer.
Lennon runs Chimera Records out of his kitchen.
Lennon is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and he talks with Bob about vampires, music, [...]
Photos from Dream Power 2009
Photos by Anne Terada © 2009 Yoko Ono
Dream Power John Lennon Super Live, Dec 8th 2009
The Dream Power John Lennon Super Live will be held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Dec 8 with several Japanese artists participating.
Proceeds from ticket sales for the annual event will be used to build schools [...]
Let’s donate schools to the deprived children of Asia and Africa!
Imagine a wave of Dream Power spreading across the world.
Starting in 2001 in Japan, the Dream Power concerts have now helped build 85 schools in some 22 countries across Asia and Africa. If you stop to think about it, the children who were in first [...]
Following the September 9 (9-9-09) debut of The Beatles’ digitally re-mastered catalogue on CD, Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music are pleased to announce the worldwide release of a limited edition of only 30,000 Beatles Stereo USB apples on December 7 (December 8 in North America).
The exquisitely crafted, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the [...]
Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon partner with EMI Music and Sony/ATV Music publishing to donate net proceeds from Plastic Ono Band’s “Give Peace A Chance” 40th anniversary digital single to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund.
Commemorative Digital Single Launches Today, Exclusively on iTunes, here.
New York, NY – November 3, 2009 – To celebrate the [...]
Basement Jaxx: Scars - new album – out 21 Sept 2009
The long-awaited new album from Basement Jaxx, entitled “Scars”, will be released on September 21st.
You can pre-order your CD copy from Play.com and get an exclusive bonus track by clicking here.
Preorder from the iTunes Music Store here:
Record your own version of the Basement Jaxx song Day [...]
We wrote letters but received no replies. One of us pushed a note under the door of his flat in London. Then we were able to speak to him. But the tape recorder had to stay off.
He was born in Nürnberg. His parents, orthodox Jews, and nearly all his other rela- tives were murdered by [...]
Gift of Lennon’s Songbook Supports Amnesty International’s Global Campaign on Darfur
February 18, 2009
Yoko Ono’s generous gift to Amnesty International — the right to have leading international musical artists record new versions of John Lennon’s solo compositions – provided a significant boost toward the organization’s campaign to end the violence in Darfur, achieve security for 2.6 million [...]
by Alicia Bridges, Perth Now.
AFTER 15 years as one of the two artists behind Basement Jaxx,
Simon Ratcliffe remains almost entirely anonymous.
A career of international hits and critical acclaim has done little to
coax him and bandmate Felix Buxton into the limelight.
For most of their fans they are names without faces, and that’s the way
they like it.
When the [...]
by Sue Gilmore, Contra Costa Times, 19 Jan 2009
Beating swords into plowshares is about as noble an antiwar notion as they come, but Sarah Cahill of Berkeley is taking the Old Testament injunction out of the fields and into the higher realm of music.
The noted pianist, recording artist and “Then & Now” radio talk-show host on KALW-FM [...]
The Ghost of A Sabre Toothed Tiger
Last minute gig – Monday 12 Jan at the Living Room at 6:30pm.
The Living Room
154 Ludlow Street, (between Stanton and Rivington), New York, NY 10002 [map]
Tel: 212-533-7237
www.livingroomny.com
Directions: Take the F or V trains to 2nd Ave
No Reservations. $5 suggested donation to artists, 1 drink minimum per set.
Coming Soon:
Chimera Records Launch
Featuring:
The Ghost [...]
Dear Ben,
Right now I am in Tokyo feeling all nervous before my appearance in a very big John Lennon Tribute Concert this evening. But my PA just put your new video on her computer screen for me.
The way you did it made me choke up. You did it so well. Just right. Thank you. I [...]
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The Pet Shop Boys will collect the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award at next year’s Brit Awards, it was announced.
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will be honoured with the award at the ceremony on February 18, the UK’s recorded music association, the BPI, said.
The pioneering dance duo, known for their chart-topping hits including West End [...]
