Audio CD review:
Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm a Witch

Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm a Witch

Band: Yoko Ono Title: Yes, I'm a Witch Rating: Release Date: 06 February, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Witch Shocktronica Intro - Hank Shocklee 2: Kiss Kiss Kiss - Peaches 3: O'Oh - Shitake Monkey 4: Everyman Everywoman - Blow Up 5: Sisters O Sisters - Le Tigre 6: Death Of Samantha - Porcupine Tree 7: Rising - DJ Spooky 8: No One Can See Me Like You Do - The Apples In Stereo 9: Yes, I'm A Witch - The Brother Brothers 10: Revelations - Cat Power 11: You And I - Polyphonic Spree 12: Walking On Thin Ice - Spiritualized 13: Toy Boat - Antony And The Johnsons 14: Cambridge 1969/2007 - The Flaming Lips 15: I'm Moving On - The Sleepy Jackson 16: Witch Shocktronica Outro - Hank Shocklee 17: Shiranakatta (I Didn't Know) - Craig Armstrong

Editoral Review Such is not the case with Ono's version of a collaborative hipster album, Yes, I'm A Witch. At first glance, this looks like it might be yet another one of those records where an older cult artist is paired with a bunch of younger/ supposedly hipper musicians in efforts to add legitimacy to the younguns and street cred to said cult figure. Yoko chose all the artists herself, and her choices range from predictable (Cat Power, Antony, Flaming Lips) to not (Le Tigre, Porcupine Tree, Hank Shocklee). The musicians were asked to pick elements of songs from Ono's back catalog and rework them. Most chose her distinctive vocals and created new songs using them (surprisingly, no one chose to work with "Mind Train" off her daring 1971 LP Fly). Unsurprisingly, Peaches chose to rework "Kiss Kiss Kiss," the infamous Double Fantasy song wherein Ono appears to achieve orgasm. Jason Pierce from Spiritualized turns the dance-y 1981 number "Walking on Thin Ice" into a powerful drone/ guitar workout percolating with a drum machine's pulse. The awesomest song is the Flaming Lips' take on Lennon/ Ono's "Cambridge 1969," carving a marvelous krautrock-ish groove that cradles Ono's unique vocal talents and Lennon's feedback and makes it something new, and better. The results overall are surprisingly great, though it's a bit disorienting given the eclectic array of artists. Ono fans, of course, will not likely be bothered by that. --Mike McGonigal .. You can see a complete list of all Yoko Ono discography, or go back to the Yoko Ono tabs