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01. Yoko Ono - Secret Piece
02. Yoko Ono - City Piece
03. Yoko Ono - Pieces for Orchestra No. 1: Peel
04. Yoko Ono - Pieces for Orchestra No. 2: Peek
05. Yoko Ono - Pieces for Orchestra No. 3: Take Off
06. Yoko Ono - Voice Piece for Soprano
07. Yoko Ono - Tape Piece II (Room Piece)
08. Yoko Ono - A Piece for Orchestra (Count All The Stars)
09. Yoko Ono - Water Piece
10. Yoko Ono - Clock Piece
11. Yoko Ono - Bicycle Piece for Orchestra
12. Yoko Ono - Pieces for Orchestra No. 4: Tear
13. Yoko Ono - Pieces for Orchestra No. 5: Touch
14. Yoko Ono - Pieces for Orchestra No. 6: Rub
15. Yoko Ono - Wood Piece
16. Yoko Ono - Wind House
17. Yoko Ono - Sweep Piece
18. Yoko Ono - Overtone Piece
19. Yoko Ono - Question Piece
20. Yoko Ono - Disappearing Piece
ARTIST
TITLE
Selected Recordings From Grapefruit
FORMAT
2CD

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KR 100CD KR 100CD
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RELEASE DATE
3/21/2025

For the first time a full album with recordings based on Yoko Ono's 1964 collection of texts, event scores and drawings Grapefruit, a foundational cornerstone of what became known as conceptual art, and enveloping the orbits of Fluxus and experimental music. Performed by The Great Learning Orchestra which has during the 25 years of its existence worked with Gavin Bryars, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, J.G. Thirlwell, Arnold Dreyblatt, and more. Originally self-published in 1964 in a limited edition of 500 copies under Yoko Ono's own imprint, Wunternaum Press, and later reprinted in expanded editions, the collection of over 230 texts, event scores and drawings that comprise Grapefruit has long been considered a foundational text in what became known as Conceptual Art, and envelops the orbit of Fluxus and experimental music. Though comparisons to John Cage may seem obvious, Ono's first attempts at textual composition actually pre-date her first encounter with the American composer by around a decade and have evolved free from Cage's influence. Another factor that sets these scores apart from associated forms of verbal notation from the same period is Ono's ambivalence towards the necessity, or even possibility, of their physical realization -- instead the idea being that the realization should take place in the mind of the reader. Hardly any performances have been recorded and released on disc -- so, 60 years after Grapefruit first appeared, Selected Recordings From Grapefruit is the very first full album of pieces selected from the many sections of the book. The sonic realizations presented here are of a number of different kinds, encompassing studio-based ensemble performances, but also location, environmental and field recordings (and at times combinations of these), as the scores themselves dictate, and for the most part recorded live and acoustically, such that the performances, actions, situations and environments that you hear are real. The accompanying 20-page booklet with rare performance photos and some original typewritten scores from Ono's personal archive also includes the text instructions for each piece - thus allowing the listener to make a connection between the imaginative engagement and creative activity executed by the performing members of The Great Learning Orchestra and the resulting recording. With 20 tracks and approximately 85 minutes duration, Selected Recordings From Grapefruit finally brings to ear some of the most important and influential 20th century avantgarde art.