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#AlternateFridayMusic
Oct 10 2025
The prompt is #UniverseYoko Ono / Ima “Talking to the Universe" (Cibo Matto Remix) from Rising Mixes, 1996
No, I don’t reach for some Yoko to play every day, nor do I like her every musical effort, but I find her an interesting artist (musical and otherwise) worthy of investment of time and thought.
In 1995 Yoko put out “Rising” in collaboration with her son’s band Ima. I don’t think I was even aware of that album when I encountered “Rising Mixes,” a handful of tracks from Rising remixed by artists I might’ve picked for the task, plus a couple that didn’t make the original album.
I usually don’t like the way remixes extend and distort an artist’s original tracks, but Yoko is one of the few for whom I often prefer the remixes to the originals, because her music can be challenging, and because there’s less of a strong melodic line or structure to distort, so smoothing their jagged texture and adding some rhythmic underpinning works for me. Perhaps it will for you, too!