Yoko Ono JOHN LENNON "Two Virgins" US LP with Bag Cover
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John Lennon / Two Virgins: Unfinished Music No. 1 - Apple Records T-5001 (Stereo)(US)(1968/85) ...This auction is for an original early reissue Record and includes the original outer brown bag-style cover.
At the time of its release, this album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono gained its greatest notice for its cover, a photograph that depicted the two standing before the camera naked. The recording, too, can be described as naked, in that it contains no music that would interfere with one's ability to hear the normal sounds of life. The record is not unlike what you might get if you turned on a tape recorder for a random half-hour in your home -- snatches of inaudible conversation far away from the microphone, footsteps, wind, and so on. Conceptual "music" in the Cage-ian sense.
Track listings and reviews below...
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Detailed item info:
Track listing(Side One)
1. Two Virgins
(Side Two)
1. Two Virgins (cont)
Details Producer: John Lennon, Yoko Ono Distributor: Apple records
Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo
Album notes Personnel: John Lennon (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, various instruments); Yoko Ono (vocals, various instruments).
Originally released in 1968 on Apple Records.
Recording information: Room 1742 Hotel La Reine, Elizabeth, Montreal, Canada (05/68-06/69); John Lennon's home studio in Weybridge, Surrey, England.
Photographer: John Lennon.
Subtitled UNFINISHED MUSIC NO. 1, this was the first of a series of recordings that were released near the beginning of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's relationship. Ono, a member of the Fluxus art movement, was a respected artist and had been producing pieces in non-traditional media (sound, video, conceptual) throughout the '60s--in fact she met Lennon when he came to one of her gallery exhibitions. With the Beatles in often-fractious circumstances at that time, Lennon poured his energies into collaborations with her.
The two long pieces comprise of a side each on this vinyl record. They're both sound collages which incorporate found sounds, bits of other recordings, some keyboards and other instruments, as well as Lennon and Ono variously talking and vocalizing. This was the public's first glimpse of Yoko's particular style of singing which included whoops, warbles, and shrieks. The verbal exchanges between the couple are often quite charming and amusing.
Editorial reviews ...A lovely collage of whistling, tinkling, speaking, piano, guitar, wailing, and whatsit, TWO VIRGINS sounds a bit like the wilder abstractions of Gong or Amon Duul I...
Spin (09/01/1997)
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