The Bizarre Beat of Yoko Ono’s Drum
In her new album, <em>Warzone</em>, the artist updates songs from her catalogue, but misses the mark more often than not.
“People of America, please listen to your soul!” That’s Yoko Ono, telling us what to do on her new album . And what if our soul—collectively, Joseph Campbell-esquely—sounded like Yoko Ono? Which is to say: wizened, innocent, fearlessly strange, offensively artless, and rather peremptory. finds Ono revisiting and refashioning 13 of her own songs/pieces, from 1970’s “Why” to 2009’s “I’m Alive,” here stripping them down to wiry substructures of piano
