WE NEED TO STOP KILLING AND SPREAD LOVE. YOKO YOU STILL WRITE MEANINGFUL SONGS

Following twenty albums over 50 years, Yoko Ono's Warzone 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."
 
In "Woman Power" from 1973, Ono took President Richard Nixon to task:
 
You may be the president now
You may still be a man
But you must also be human
So open up and join us in living
 
Two generations later, the lyrics are still applicable for another man in the White House and “Woman Power” is as topical as ever. In her 1971 essay Feminization of Society (reprinted in the Warzone liner notes), Ono wrote: "I am proposing the feminization of society; the use of feminine tendencies as a positive force to change the world."
 
Our recent presidents and many of our world leaders have never served in the military, yet they continually nourish and serve the corporate-infused military industrial complex, keeping the world in a perpetual warfare. The song "Warzone" is a dark and terror-filled album opener.
 
"I lived through the Second World War as a very young girl and a lot of things happened. Horrible... what a terrible time.... But a good experience for me because it made me a strong woman. You had to know what to do quickly. My brother and sister were very young [and we were separated from our parents and] evacuated and hid in an attic in the countryside. We had water from a dirty well, and no food. We were very hungry. It was a very very dangerous time. I had to be wise to survive, for myself and for my brother and sister."
 
Co-producer and musician Thomas Bartlett played in Yoko's band in 2006. The two kept in touch through the years, occasionally rehearsing in her living room. Thomas played piano on "I Love You Earth,” her 2014 duet recording with Antony. This rerecording of her 1986 song fits hand-in-hand with Yoko's anti-fracking activism. The lyrics, ever more salient today, seem to have foreshadowed the concept and tone of Warzone.
 
The recordings and arrangements on Warzone 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 "Now Or Never" (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."
 
In contrast to the 1970 version of "Why", with John Lennon's savage guitar matching Yoko's furious vocal outrage, the new version features fierce animal cries. Says Yoko: "I wanted the animals to be equally present as the musicians. I started the record with Elephant. The Elephant is speaking for all animals. We are killing them to get ivory tusks - that's the kind of people we are.... [For the recording] we used the animal voices as music instruments - it came out beautiful."
 
Warzone 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.

Warzone is release number 52 on Chimera Music, run by Sean Ono Lennon. Chimera has been reissuing the Yoko Ono back catalog in partnership with Secretly Canadian Records. 4 reissues are scheduled for later in 2018, and the Yoko Ono / John Lennon Wedding Album is scheduled for March 20, 2019.

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"¿Quién será?" de Sonido Gallo Negro es una reconstrucción de la clásica pieza popular donde las melodías llevadas por órganos electrónicos se entrelazan con trompetas y son guiadas por un cencerro cañero que ilustra perfectamente la devoción de este conjunto por el groovie que hace bailar a más de uno.

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A spectacular reimagining of one of the all time greatest Northern Soul tunes, Timi Yuro ‘It’ll Never Be Over For Me’ whilst the original can change hands for upwards on £2000 a group of young Argentinian Mods and rude boys have come up with a reggae version.
 
On paper it shouldn’t work but it does. The most requested song on Eddie Piller’s Eclectic Soul Show on Soho Radio in 2017 following a chance meeting with guitarist Kevin Finigier from Los Aggrotones in the studio.
 
Acid Jazz are proud to release this as a limited edition vinyl single (backed with one of the bands original organ instrumentals) as a taster for the labels release of their European debut LP later in 2018.

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Sonido Gallo Negro - Mambo Cósmico
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Hailing from Mexico City, Sonido Gallo Negro's exhilarating third album continues their exploration into the psychedelic richness and rhythmic pulse of Peruvian cumbia while at the same reaching for new sounds and textures – such as mambo, cha cha, porro and danzon.

Filled with frenetic, red hot identities and sonorities, Mambo Cósmico is the album that galvanizes the international reputation Sonido Gallo Negro earned through their powerful concerts and their earlier records - Cumbia Salvaje (Savage Cumbia, 2011) and Sendero Místico (Mystical Path, 2014 – released outside of Mexico by Glitterbeat).

Mambo Cósmico is a sonic collage that is not only musical, but also cultural and historical. This combo of nine musicians, seek out a new and unexpected musical cosmos that goes beyond their well-honed Mexican and Latin American influences. Their navigational charts point towards an additional synchronicity of sound and imagination with the Middle East, the Hispanic old world and Africa, as embedded within the Americas.

Of the eleven tracks included on Mambo Cósmico, nine are group originals, Tolú by Lucho Bermúdez and ¿Quién será? by Pablo Beltrán Ruiz being the only cover versions. Also, for the first time some of these pieces include vocals and group choruses.

Sonido Gallo Negro are:
Edwin Irigoyen: congas 
Truc Casasola: timbales, bass drum, snare.
Gabriel López: lead guitar and Farfisa organ
Israel Martinez: bass 
Lucio de los Santos: flute and bongos 
Julian Sampler: sampler and organ 
Jorge Alderete: theremin and visuals
Roberto Vargas: güiro and percusion

Guests: 
Alex Gonzalez Villaseñor Escobar: trumpet in Mambo Cosmico,Tolú, ¿Quien será? and La Foca Pascual Montaño: trumpet, Mambo Egipcio 
Mitze Maíz: vocals, Catemaco and Danza del Mar 
Alexis Ruiz: vibes, Mambo Cósmico and La Foca 
Master Javier Carrillo Velazquez: violin, Danzón Fayuquero 
Isaias Chay Martinez: arcusa, La Danza de los Diablos 
La Bruja de Texcoco (The Texcocan Witch) string harp, Catemaco

Mambo Cósmico

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Two exclusive tropical edits based on the sweet Brasil sounds. The hypnotic guitar-lick and samba bonanza turns Berimbao into the ultimate yet classy uptempo bomb. On the B side, it's the mental piano hook that makes the cut. A repetitive swing that works up into a burning tune.
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This is hell in paradise
We're all asleep or paralyzed
Why are we scared to verbalize
Our multi–color dreams

When will we come to realize
We're all stoned or pacified
While the boogie men organize
Their multi–level schemes

Underqualified for love
Overqualified for life
Sticking in our heads in slime
Thinking we're in our prime

Mesmerized by mythology
Hypnotized by ideology
Antagonized by reality
Vandalized by insanity
Desensitized by fraternity
Sanitized by policy
Jeopardized by lunacy

Penalized by apathy
Living in the world of fantasy
Dancing on hot coal
Waiting for the last call
It's Adam's ball
Eve's call
Eve’s call

Wake up, shake up, check out, work out, speak out, reach out, it's time to, time to, time to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to

This is hell in paradise
None of us wish to recognize
But do we want them to materialize 
An endangered species

Exorcise institution
Exercise intuition
Mobilize transition
With inspiration for life


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1985

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — keyboards, electronics 
Nico Muhly — string arrangements
Caleb Burhans, Patti Kilroy, Laura Lutzke, Courtney Orlando — violins 
Animals: Elephant, Baboon, Panther

Hell In Paradise

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Warzone, warzone
We are living in a warzone
It’s a warzone
Men flashing their guns and balls
Women looking like barbie dolls
Wake up, wake up
Hold your life
We’re out to chill, out to kill
Warzone, warzone, warzone

Guys stealing zillions gets away
While we knock each other to make our day
Wake up, wake up
Hold your life
Wake up
They’re out to chill, 
They’re out to kill

Warzone, warzone, warzone, warzone
Warzone

Don’t make us laugh 
with your high minded talk
When all you want from us
Is some pillow talk
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, Wake up,
Hold your life

Warzone, Warzone, warzone, warzone, warzone, warzone, warzone
We’re living in a warzone
Help us, help us
If you hear me, if you hear me

Please help us


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1996

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — piano, keyboards, electronics 
Animals: crow, elephant, wolf

Are we gonna keep pushing our children to drugs? 
Are we gonna keep driving them insane? 
Are we gonna keep laying empty words and fists? 
Are we gonna be remembered as the century that failed?

People of America, when will we learn?
 It's now or never, there's no time to lose.

Are we gonna keep sending our youth to war? 
Are we gonna keep scarring rice fields and infants? 
Are we gonna keep watching dead bodies over dinner? 
Are we gonna be known as the century that kills?

People of America, when will we stop?
 It's now or never, there's no time to waste.

Are we gonna keep pretending things are alright?
Are we gonna keep our mouths closed just in case? 
Are we gonna keep putting off until it's too late?
 Are we gonna be known as the century of fear?

People of America, when will we see?
 It's now or never, we've no time to lose.
People of America, when will we see? 
It's now or never, we've no time to lose.

Are we gonna keep digging oil wells and gold?
 Are we gonna keep shooting the ones that tries to change? 
Are we gonna keep thinking it won't happen to us? 
Are we gonna be known as the century that kills?

People of America, please listen to your soul, 
We can change the times to century of hope.

'cause...
a dream you dream alone is only a dream,
 But a dream we dream together is reality.


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1972
Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — keyboards, electronics 
Marc Ribot — acoustic guitar 
Kassa Overall — drums

Now or Never

Now Or Never

Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
If we sweep the bottom of the rivers
We’ll find bodies that shouldn’t be there
If we sweep the courts and the offices
We’ll find heads that shouldn’t be there

Cats on the hill
Ready to kill

Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
If we sweep the shelters and asylums
We’ll find women who shouldn’t be there
If we sweep the dark streets and alleys
We’ll find tradesmen who shouldn’t be there
Ding Dong Hell
Pussy in the well
Cats on the hill
Ready to kill

Are you getting ready for
blood and horror
Are you getting ready 
for God and terror
Are you getting ready
For God and Terror

Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1996

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — piano, electronics 
Doug Wieselman — bass clarinet 
Erik Friedlander — cello

Where Do We Go From Here

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Woman Power!
Woman Power!

Two thousand years of male society
Laying fear and tyranny
Seeking grades and money
Clinging to values vain and phony

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

Do you know that one day you lost 
	your way, man
Do you know that some day you have to 
	pay, man
Have you anything to say
except "Make no mistake about it
I'm the president, you hear!"
I wanna make one thing clear
I'm the president, you hear!"


Woman Power!
Woman Power!

You don't hear them singing songs
You don't see them living life
'Cause they've got nothing to say, but
"Make no mistake about it
I'm the president, you hear!"
"I wanna make one thing clear
I'm the president, you hear!"

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

You may be the president now
You may still be a man
But you must also be human
So open up and join us in living

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

In the coming age of feminine society
We'll regain our human dignity
We'll lay some truth and clarity
And bring back nature's beauty

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

Every woman has a song to sing
Every woman has a story to tell
And make no mistake about it, 
	brothers
We women have the power to move the 
	mountains

We’ll teach you how to cook
We’ll teach you how to knit
We’ll teach you how to care for life,
Instead of killing
Make no mistake about it,
	sisters
We women have the power to change the 
	world

Woman Power!
Woman Power!
Woman Power!
Woman Power!

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

East and West must work together


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1973

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — keyboards, bass, electronics
Marc Ribot — electric guitar 
Kassa Overall — drums
Nico Muhly — string arrangement
Caleb Burhans, Patti Kilroy, Laura Lutzke, Courtney Orlando — violins

Woman Power

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Les Négresses Vertes - C'est pas la mer à boire

We're proud to announce the release of the new album from Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. This is a music group with a long, established history in the American underground spiritual jazz scene. Kahil El’Zabar - Chicago’s best kept jazz secret, is an artist on a league of his own, with a significant contribution in the continuation of the spiritual and afro-futuristic jazz for the last four decades.

Kahil El’Zabar’s performance on multi-percussion and vocals has been described as “Jazz as spiritual experience”. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s incredible line-up also includes the super-talented Corey Wilkes on trumpet, the deep, extraordinary Alex Harding on baritone sax and the fierce Ian Maksin on cello.

This is Be Known: Ancient / Future / Music for your mind, body and soul.

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Now Or Never

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