Rising (Yoko Ono album)

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Rising
Yoko Ono Rising.jpg
Studio album by
Yoko Ono/IMA
Released7 November 1995 (1995-11-07)
RecordedQuad Recording, New York City
Genre Alternative rock, art rock
Length59:13
Label Capitol
Producer Yoko Ono, Rob Stevens
Yoko Ono chronology
New York Rock
(1994)		Rising
(1995)		 A Story
(1997)

Rising is a 1995 album by avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. Released on 7 November by Capitol Records, it features the backing band IMA (Japanese for "Now"), which included Ono's son Sean Ono Lennon, Timo Ellis, and Sam Koppelman. It was her first album of new material since 1985's Starpeace . The album has sold 11,000 copies in the U.S. to date. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Artforum International Positive [3]
The Guardian Positive [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Robert Christgau A− [6]

The British newspaper The Guardian named the album "Pop CD of the week" in January 1996. [4] In their review, the album was described as an "unexpected minor triumph". [4] The reviewer, Dan Glaister, further noted that "underlying all the hurt and anger" was also "an overwhelming honesty and humanity" and that the album "succeeds in imparting enormous positivity". [4] Glaister singled out the track "Kurushi" as a "haunting, gentle call to a loved one" and described "Goodbye, My Love" as a "mournful, jolly little ballad a la McCartney". [4]

Bruce Hainley of art magazine Artforum International wrote that the album "affirms her amazing talents as a musician" and described it as "an uncompromising blend of Conceptual art and rock 'n' roll" with Yoko using a "wide range of vocals [...] from the aggressive to the sultry to fusion". [3] He also felt that it was "hard to imagine a better place to start for those unfamiliar with her work". [3] Hainley also praised the remix album Rising Mixes, which "[showed] the continuing reach of Ono's influence on rock since the '70s". [3] He described the bonus song "Franklin Summer" as "hypnotic". [3]

Track listing

All songs written by Yoko Ono.

  1. "Warzone" – 1:55
  2. "Wouldnit" – 3:02
  3. "Ask the Dragon" – 4:12
  4. "New York Woman" – 2:07
  5. "Talking to the Universe" – 3:31
  6. "Turned the Corner" – 2:58
  7. "I'm Dying" – 6:18
  8. "Where Do We Go from Here?" – 3:02
  9. "Kurushi" – 7:59
  10. "Will I" – 2:27
  11. "Rising" – 14:28
  12. "Goodbye My Love" – 2:22
  13. "Revelations" – 5:35
  14. "Ask the Dragon" (Ween Remix) – 4:49 (Japanese Edition Bonus Track)
  15. "Talking to the Universe" (Cibo Matto Remix) – 4:21 (Japanese Edition Bonus Track)

Rising Mixes (released 3 June 1996)

  1. "Talking to the Universe" (Cibo Matto Remix) (4.21)
  2. "The Source" (ABA All Stars) (4.58)
  3. "Ask the Dragon" (Ween Remix) (4.49)
  4. "Where Do We Go from Here?" (Tricky Remix) (5.07)
  5. "Rising" (Thurston Moore Remix) (8.48)
  6. "Franklin Summer" (Yoko Ono/IMA)* (30.02)

The ABA All Stars remix is credited to Miho Hatori, Yuka Honda and Sean Lennon (the members of Cibo Matto), as well as Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Keiji Haino, Masonna, Monde Bruits, Incapacitants, C.C.C.C., Hanatarash, MSBR, and The Gerogerigegege are also credited as performers in Thurston Moore's remix of "Rising".

A vinyl promo version was released with the track listing:-

  1. "Ask the Dragon" (Ween Remix) (4.49)
  2. "Talking to the Universe" (Cibo Matto Remix) (4.23)
  3. "The Source" (ABA All Stars) (4.58)
  4. "Where Do We Go from Here?" (Tricky Remix) (5.04)
  5. "Rising" (Thurston Moore Remix) (8.48)
  6. "Kurushi (Perry Farrell Mix)" (7.26)

Personnel

Production

Release history

Rising

CountryDateFormatLabelCatalog
United States1995CD Capitol Records CDP 724383581726 [7]
CassetteC4 724383581740 [8]
EuropeCDCDP 8358172 [9]
Japan13 December 1995TOCP-8737 [10]

Rising Mixes

CountryDateFormatLabelCatalog
United States1996CD Capitol Records CDP 724383726806 [11]
LP (Promo)SPRO-11219/11222 [12]
EuropeCDCDP8372680 [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Trust, Gary (18 September 2009). "Ask Billboard: Madonna, Yoko Ono, Gospel". Billboard. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. ↑ Rising at AllMusic
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Hainley, Bruce (April 1996). "Oh Yoko!". Artforum International. 34 (8): 23.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Dan Glaister (19 January 1996). "Pop CD of the week - Yoko Ono and IMA". The Guardian. London. p. 13.
  5. ↑ Rollingstone
  6. ↑ "Yoko Ono/IMA: Rising". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Yoko Ono / Ima – Rising (1995, CD)". Discogs .
  8. ↑ "Yoko Ono / Ima – Rising (1995, Cassette)". Discogs .
  9. ↑ "Yoko Ono / Ima – Rising (1995, CD)". Discogs .
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  11. ↑ "Yoko Ono / Ima – Rising Mixes (1996, CD)". Discogs .
  12. ↑ "Yoko Ono / Ima – Rising Mixes (1996, Vinyl)". Discogs .
  13. ↑ "Yoko Ono / Ima – Rising Mixes (1996, CD)". Discogs .
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