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"It's
music. It starts with a kind of pianissimo and kind of largo. And then it goes
on increasing in speed as well. And then it goes into a crescendo and it goes
on and I mean, that's music. You can notate that." Read the full interview
"Variously hailed
as a catalyst of the punk movement and criticized as a marginal performance artist
with questionable musical abilities, Yoko Ono has been nothing if not iconoclastic
in her four-decade career. The latest in Rykodisc's catalog reissue series of
Ono's work consists of some of her most notorious work, namely four albums she
recorded with husband John Lennon in the late '60s and early '70s. The first of
the "Unfinished Music" titles is the infamous "Two Virgins"
album, which became better known for its cover portrait of Lennon and Ono nude
than for its nonmusical content. Similarly, the other titles feature the young
couple in audio-verite settings, chanting, speaking, groaning, and otherwise holding
court. The inclusion of bonus tracks (B-sides and previously unreleased cuts)
gives these albums newfound musicality and will probably make them more palatable
to fans."
"At
the time of its release, this duo album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono gained its
greatest notice for its cover, a photograph that depicted the two standing before
the camera naked. The recording, too, can be described as naked, in that it contains
no music that would interfere with one's ability to hear the normal sounds of
life. The record is not unlike what you might get if you turned on a tape recorder
for a random half-hour in your home — snatches of inaudible conversation
far away from the microphone, footsteps, wind, and so on." 
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