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Back in 2010, Yoko Onos Plastic Ono Band performed a series of shows at L.A.s the Orpheum, featuring collaborations with Iggy Pop, RZA, and Carrie Fisher among others. One of the then-lesser known bands on the bill was Merrill Garbus tUnE-yArDs, who covered/updated Were All Water, from Ono and John Lennons 1972 album, Some Time in New York City.
The cover is now seeing a release: Were All Water b/w a remix of Onos Warrior Woman (from 1973s Feeling the Space) will be the second in a series of 10 benefit records curated by Ono, to be released today via Chimera Music. Profits from the records and 100% of income from downloads will be donated to the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, working to help families affected by Hurricane Sandy.
The remix previews a second volume of Yes, Im a Witch, featuring reinventions of Onos songs, which will be released later this year.
Of the project, Garbus said:
Getting familiar with Yokos vast body of work has been a true education for me. When it came time to choose one of Yokos songs to cover, and then later one to remix, I had the opportunity to delve into the ground-breaking, punk-before-punk, radical, brave and brilliant work she had done, album after album. More musicians should learn Yokos history as a songwriter and performer shes been light years ahead of us for decades.
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