Between My Head and the Sky

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Between My Head and the Sky
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Studio album by
Plastic Ono Band
Released21 September 2009 (2009-09-21)[1]
Genre
Length58:32
LabelChimera Music
ProducerYoko Ono and Sean Lennon
Plastic Ono Band chronology
Don't Stop Me! EP
(2009) 		Between My Head and the Sky
(2009) 		Onomix
(2012)

Between My Head and the Sky is an album by Yoko Ono's band Plastic Ono Band released on Chimera Music in September 2009. It is her first studio album to be released as "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" since 1973's Feeling the Space. This Plastic Ono Band lineup featured Cornelius, Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto fame), and Ono's son Sean Lennon as band leader and producer.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic83/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[4]
The A.V. ClubB+[5]
MojoStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[6]
The ObserverStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[7]
Pitchfork7.3/10[8]
QStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[9]
Rolling StoneStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[10]
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The TelegraphStarStarStarStarStar[11]
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New Internationalist magazine described the album as "fresh and challenging as any of her early work" and having "a commitment to spontaneity".[13]

Track listing

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All songs written by Yoko Ono.

  1. "Waiting for the D Train" – 2:46
  2. "The Sun Is Down!" (Cornelius Mix) – 4:49
  3. "Ask the Elephant!" – 2:57
  4. "Memory of Footsteps" – 3:30
  5. "Moving Mountains" – 3:00
  6. "Calling" – 4:19
  7. "Healing" – 4:25
  8. "Hashire, Hashire" – 3:35
  9. "Between My Head and the Sky" – 5:33
  10. "Feel the Sand" – 6:02
  11. "Watching the Rain" – 5:30
  12. "Unun. To" – 3:16
  13. "I'm Going Away Smiling" – 2:53
  14. "Higa Noboru" – 5:44
  15. "I'm Alive" – 0:22

Japanese bonus track

  2. "Hanako" – 1:54

Japanese iTunes bonus video[14]

  2. "Why" (Live at Royal Festival Hall, London 2009) – 5:08
Note

Digital and streaming editions of the album omit the last two tracks, instead ending the album with the track "I'm Going Away Smiling".[15][16][17][18]

Personnel

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  • Yoko Ono – vocals
  • Sean Lennon – acoustic and electric guitars, piano, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion
  • Keigo Oyamada – guitars, bass guitar, Tenorion, programming, percussion
  • Hirotaka Shimizu – guitars, percussion
  • Yuko Araki – drums, percussion
  • Shahzad Ismaily – guitars, bass guitar, drums, percussion
  • Yuka Honda – Pro-tools editing, sampler, e. piano, organ, percussion
  • Michael Leonhart – trumpet, vibraphone, percussion
  • Erik Friedlander – cello
  • Daniel Carter – tenor saxophone, flute
  • Indigo Street – guitar
Technical

Release history

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Country Date Format Label Catalog
Japan 16 September 2009 CD Chimera Music PVCP-8259[19]
22 September 2009 2xLP 616892049760[20]
United States 21 September 2009 CD 616892056362[21]
22 September 2009 2xLP CHIM01LP[22]

References

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