John Lennon - Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions

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Artikel Name: Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: SECRETLY CANADIAN Titelanzahl: 5

Trackliste LP - 1

1. John Lennon / Yoko Ono - Cambridge 1969 2. John Lennon / Yoko Ono - No Bed for Beatle John 3. John Lennon / Yoko Ono - Baby’s Heartbeat 4. John Lennon / Yoko Ono - Two Minutes Silence 5. John Lennon / Yoko Ono - Radio Play

Beschreibung

This album, subtitled UNFINISHED MUSIC NO. 2, is linked to its predecessor (TWO VIRGINS: UNFINISHED MUSIC NO. 1) by name only. Though both offer recordings that found John Lennon happily stepping into the avant-garde world of his paramour, this album departs from the sound collage approach of their debut and instead offers a range of real time recordings. The improvisational 26-minute "Cambridge 1969" is from a live performance and primarily features Yoko Ono's vocals and Lennon's feedback guitar. Four subsequent pieces (originally comprising side two of the album) were recorded at the Queen Charlotte Hospital in London. Yoko occupied a room there at a critical juncture in a difficult pregnancy (ultimately suffering a miscarriage) and John took up on the floor beside her. This documents their desire to draw poetry and emotional resonance from their life together as well as to make art from their surroundings. The five minutes of "Baby's Heartbeat" followed by the "Two Minutes Silence" may not be a riveting traditional listening experience, but it is conceptually moving.

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono's second collaborative album consists of five tracks: all of side one is taken up by "Cambridge 1969," a live recording at Lady Mitchell Hall in Cambridge of Lennon playing an electric guitar backup to Ono's singing and screaming. Side two includes an a cappella rendering by Ono of "No Bed for Beatle John," which discusses the refusal of a hospital to give Lennon a bed so he could stay during his wife's troubled pregnancy; "Baby's Heartbeat," which is what it says it is; "Two Minutes Silence" in commemoration of Ono's miscarriage, which is also what it says it is; and "Radio Play," 12 minutes of a radio dial being turned back and forth to pick up random stations. If, as they suggested, their lives were their art, then this is, too. Maybe. [Vol. 2 was re-released on LP in 2016.] ~ William Ruhlmann

William Ruhlmann