| Product Summary | | Label: Caroline Distribution | | UPC: 00094637928721 | | Release Date: 2/6/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203878680 | | Item#: M3E26H | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Witch Shocktronica Intro - (with Hank Shocklee) ~ Yoko Ono |  | | 2. Kiss Kiss Kiss - (with Peaches) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 3. O'Oh - (with Shitake Monkey) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 4. Everyman Everywoman - (with Blow-Up) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 5. Sisters O Sisters - (with Le Tigre) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 6. Death Of Samantha - (with Porcupine Tree) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 7. Rising - (with DJ Spooky) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 8. Nobody Sees Me Like You Do - (with The Apples In Stereo) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 9. Yes I'm A Witch - (with The Brother Brothers) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 10. Revelations - (with Cat Power) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 11. You & I - (with The Polyphonic Spree) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 12. Walking On Thin Ice - (with Jason Pierce) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 13. Toyboat - (with Antony) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 14. Cambridge 1969/2007 - (with The Flaming Lips) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 15. I'm Moving On - (with The Sleepy Jackson) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 16. Witch Shocktronica (Outro) - (with Hank Shocklee) ~ Yoko Ono | | | 17. Shirankatta (I Didn't Know) - (French, Japanese, with Craig Armstrong) ~ Yoko Ono | |
| The voice of Yoko Ono with colloborations from Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, Anotno (of Antony & The Johnsons, The Apples in Stereo, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, Peaches and many more.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel include: Yoko Ono (vocals); DJ Spooky, Peaches, The Flaming Lips, Craig Armstrong, Cat Power. | | Yoko Ono is one of pop music's most divisive figures, both because of her controversial (to some) relationship with John Lennon and her uncompromising and often difficult artistic and musical vision. To reduce Ono's musical output to the shrieks and shouts she's most often associated with, however, is to overlook some truly excellent music. YES, I'M A WITCH seeks to correct these oversights and misunderstandings by recruiting a host of indie-rock and electronica heavyweights to rework key Ono tracks. Most artists chose to recast the songs in the glitches and sputters of contemporary electronic music (something of a digital equivalent to Ono's melisma), with Le Tigre's triumphant electro-clash reworking of "Sisters O Sisters" a particular standout. Yet the most poignant moments--Antony and Hahn Rowe's shimmering take on "Toyboat," Cat Power's simple piano-driven duet on "Revelations"--occur when Ono's subtleties are placed front and center, allowing the hidden beauty in her work to emerge. |
Producer: Craig Armstrong; Blow-Up |
Musical Guests | | Cat Power | | Craig Armstrong | | Peaches | | DJ Spooky |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | Cast, Original | | Double Fantasy [Remaster] ~ Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Milk & Honey [Remaster] ~ Lennon, John | | Unfinished Music #1: Two Virgins ~ Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Wedding Album ~ Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Lennon, John | | Original Cast | | Plastic Ono Band | | Between My Head And The Sky [Digipak] ~ Plastic Ono Band (The) |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/06/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 79287 | | Label : Astralwerks (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00094637928721 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.74)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[Ono's] long-underrated talent for simple, direct melodies makes it easy for these disciples to rescore Ono's songwriting in their own lingo."Spin (p.86)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he collection manages to achieve formal freedom, hit-record verve, and one woman's personal supernatural." Entertainment Weekly (p.74)
- "[T]he results should be required listening for anyone who doubts her continuing relevance to cutting-edge culture." -- Grade: A- The Wire (p.57)
- "[With] some highlights showing off Ono's on-the-verge voice from various novel angles....Jason Pierce's lovely drone distortion on 'Walking On Thin Ice' complements Ono's voice perfectly." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.92)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "What YES, I'M A WITCH proves, above all else, is that the world is at last catching up with Ono....[The album] offers a widescreen version of the Yoko Ono story." Rolling Stone 7 of 10
Yoko Ono has made her most exciting and uncompromising music recording with fans -- primarily her husband, John Lennon, and, on 1995's Rising, their son Sean. This set of "collaborations" -- new arrangements of Ono's songs with her vocals from the original versions -- extends that family to a generation of alternative-rock and dance-music pupils, including Peaches, Cat Power, the Flaming Lips and torch singer Antony, too young to care if she broke up the Beatles (which she did not) but the right age to appreciate the radical modernism of Ono's early-Seventies LPs. Her long-underrated talent for simple, direct melodies makes it easy for these disciples to rescore Ono's songwriting in their own lingo. Peaches amplifies the sexual undercurrent of "Kiss Kiss Kiss" with electro-bump-and-grind. The Polyphonic Spree, usually on the wrong side of twee, bring the right comfort and light to "You and I," and Le Tigre punk up the vintage feminism of "Sisters O Sisters." Antony doesn't make the most of the pairing of his high tenor and Ono's higher, plaintive wail; he's too far back in the dark of "Toyboat." But Jason Pierce of Spiritualized takes the avant-disco of "Walking on Thin Ice" further out, with a drone-rock backdrop that echoes Suicide's "Cheree" and noise-guitar eruptions that Lennon surely would have loved. - David Fricke
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