Between My Head and the Sky

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Between My Head and the Sky
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Studio album by
Released21 September 2009 (2009-09-21) [1]
Genre
Length58:32
Label Chimera Music
Producer Yoko 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.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The A.V. Club B+ [4]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
New Internationalist Positive [6]
Pitchfork 7.3/10 [7]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Spin 8/10 [2]

New Internationalist magazine described the album as "fresh and challenging as any of her early work" and having "a commitment to spontaneity". [6]

Track listing

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
  1. "Hanako" – 1:54
Japanese iTunes Bonus Video [9]
  1. "Why" (Live at Royal Festival Hall, London 2009) – 5:08
Note

Digital and Streaming editions of the album omit the last 2 tracks, instead ending the album with the track "I'm Going Away Smiling." [10] [11] [12] [13]

Personnel

Technical

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabelCatalog
Japan16 September 2009CDChimera MusicPVCP-8259 [14]
22 September 20092xLP616892049760 [15]
United States21 September 2009CD616892056362 [16]
22 September 20092xLPCHIM01LP [17]

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