Name: Holy Hand Grenade - Community Center Solo by Asher Kurtz
Duration: 2 min 6 s
Description: This an excerpt of a recording from a Holy Hand Grenade show at Whynot Jazz Room in New York City. Community Center written by Lynn Ligammari and Asher Kurtz

This an excerpt of a recording from a Holy Hand Grenade show at Whynot Jazz Room in New York City. Community Center written by Lynn Ligammari and Asher Kurtz

Holy Hand Grenade - Community Center Solo

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The Phantom Menace Was The Worst Thing Since My Son

Unbeknownst

Lead single "Chirp Chirp" from our forthcoming EP, Stories in Glass. Music video premiere on Ones to Watch here: http://ones2wat.ch/M7/

Chirp Chirp is  about someone feeling trapped in their own shell and finding freedom through embracing of unity with their surroundings, in this case, a bird on a lemon tree. They are drawn to the bird and enchanted by its free and easy nature. The bird is able to touch something that is hidden so deep in them, and with ‘such a small gesture’ it manages to cut through all the armor they’ve been trying to put on. In the choruses there’s a moment of realization that maybe the person and the bird aren’t as different from each other. In that moment, when all walls are down, the person and the bird are one.

Produced by Asher Kurtz
Mixed by Dalton Harts
Mastered by Charlie Van Kirk
Art by Scott Siskind

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LYRICS 
I heard you
under the weight of the sun
leaves rustling,
and a whistle so easy
I thought I’d burn my eyes
when I looked up
I saw you there
Blue and beautiful,
watercolors through the sky

It breaks me how
you lift me up,
all my insides turn to dust;
it's such a small gesture.

In the blazing sun
I remember who I am
For a moment
there’s no doubt
I am you and you are me
you are me can’t you see

On a branch 
of a lemon tree
I saw you,
so calm and so serene
I wonder what you know
In your black eyes
pools of memories and sights
Give me something,
show me vistas full of light

In the blazing sun
I remember who I am
For a moment
there’s no doubt
I am you and you are me
you are me can’t you see

Chirp Chirp

I’ve always had anxiety issues, but they were manageable most of the time. It was noise in the back of my head and I’ve always just thought of it as a part of me, as part of my patterns of dealing with the world. But sometimes it would erupt and turn into an anxiety attack. I would freeze, like a deer in the headlights, breathing fast, but not being able to move. Headlights is about that feeling that this noise is following you, wherever you go, and sometimes it overtakes you and aren’t able to control it.

Produced by Asher Kurtz
Mixed by Dalton Harts
Mastered by Charlie Van Kirk

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Headlights

Note To Self

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Margaret Glaspy - Ex-Factor (Lauryn Hill Cover)

The first single from the 5 song EP Alchemy. The full EP was written, recorded, produced, and mixed in one week during the COVID-19 global pandemic of 2020.

Asher Kurtz - All instruments, Production, Mixing

Ian Hersey - Mastering

Alchemy

The full EP was written, recorded, produced, and mixed in one week during the COVID-19 global pandemic of 2020.

Asher Kurtz - All instruments, Production, Mixing

Ian Hersey - Mastering

AK Interlude

OUT NOW on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/artist/ono/id219376502

2013 marks a milestone year for ONO. The influential pop culture icon, outspoken activist and enduring avant-garde visionary celebrates her 80th birthday on February 18th. 

Yoko Ono's dynamic, uncompromising and, often controversial career has spanned more than 5 decades and has seen Ono expand from vilified outsider artist, socio-political revolutionary and progenitor of punk and New York's famed Downtown art scene to now include global peace ambassador, philanthropic contributor to the Arts and Billboard Dance chart-topping diva.

In the past decade, the boundless art-rock visionary has opened up her catalog of original works to be cleverly reinvented by a cherry-picked assemblage of dance, electronic and indie/alternative music innovators including PET SHOP BOYS, FLAMING LIPS, BASEMENT JAXX, DANNY TENAGLIA, PENGUIN PRISON, JUAN MACLEAN, FELIX DA HOUSECAT, PEACHES, ANTONY (of ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS), SPARKS, CSS, HANK SHOCKLEE, CAT POWER, JUNIOR BOYS, BIMBO JONES, and THE POLYPHONIC SPREE. To date, the groundbreaking remix series has spawned nine #1 BILLBOARD HOT DANCE CLUB PLAY chart-topping hits including TALKING TO THE UNIVERSE, MOVE ON FAST, WOULDNIT (I’M A STAR), GIVE ME SOMETHING, I’M NOT GETTING ENOUGH, GIVE PEACE A CHANCE, NO NO NO, EVERYMAN / EVERYWOMAN and the definitive anthem WALKING ON THIN ICE, as well as, 2 critically-acclaimed remix albums – YES, I’M A WITCH and OPEN YOUR BOX.

ONO kicks off the 2013 New Year with a fiery new dance single HOLD ME - a searing collaboration co-written and produced by EDM A-lister DAVE AUDÉ (whose discography includes remixes and productions for U2, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Depeche Mode, Coldplay and Pussycat Dolls, and an unprecedented 83 #1 Billboard Club Play Chart hits). The single finds ONO as vibrant and compelling as ever, continuing her streak of dance floor and club chart domination.

While her previous club hits have been star-studded reworkings of her classic material, “HOLD ME” is an entirely new song co-written by ONO and Dave, tailor-made for dance floors, and filled with her vivid lyrical imagery. Combined with Audé’s midas touch for solid, contemporary club anthems, the collaboration is an inspired one that sheds a new light on ONO and adds a strikingly new dimension to her illustrious career. 

Enlisted for remixes are Grammy Award-winning producer RALPHI ROSARIO, premiere Dutch DJ/producer R3HAB, sweltering progressive house collective PAPERCHA$ER, Spain’s IVAN GOMEZ & NACHO CHAPADO, Brazilian electro house/dubstep heavyweights DIRTY LOUD, electro nu-rave legend TOMMIE SUNSHINE and Boston-based wunderkind EMJAE (aka DJ/producer/remixer Matt Johnson of Nightriders and The Night Owl), all of whom deliver adrenalin-fueled bangers that keep the emotion and energy levels high. In addition to his original production, Audé himself also contributes to the collective of vibrant interpretations.

HOLD ME will be available as two separate digital green releases (no materials used or abused) on MIND TRAIN / TWISTED Records issued in February on iTunes and at all fine digital retailers.

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