Yoko Ono With The Plastic Ono Band And Elephants Memory Approximately Infinite Universe Apple Records – SVBB 3399 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold, Winchester Pressing US/Jan 8, 1973 UK/16 Feb 1973 A1 Yang Yang 3:50 A2 Death Of Samantha 6:22 A3 I Want My Love To Rest Tonight 5:11 A4 What Did I Do! 4:10 A5 Have You Seen A Horizon Lately 1:57 B1 Approximately Infinite Universe 3:20 B2 Peter The Dealer 4:44 B3 Song For John 2:05 B4 Catman (The Rosies Are Coming) 5:32 B5 What A Bastard The World Is 4:33 B6 Waiting For The Sunrise 2:32 C1 I Felt Like Smashing My Face In A Clear Glass Window 5:07 C2 Winter Song 3:36 C3 Kite Song 3:19 C4 What A Mess 2:41 C5 Shiranakatta (I Didn't Know) 3:13 C6 Air Talk 3:21 D1 I Have A Woman Inside My Soul 5:31 D2 Move On Fast 3:43 D3 Now Or Never 4:57 D4 Is Winter Here To Stay? 4:20 D5 Looking Over From My Hotel Window 3:31 Arranged By, Lyrics By, Music By, Piano, Vocals – Yoko Ono Artwork – Bettina Rossner, John Lennon, Yoko Ono Bass, Trumpet – Gary Van Scyoc Castanets – Daria Price Drums, Percussion – Richard Frank, Jr. Engineer – Dennis Turbeville, Jack Douglas, Kurt Munkacsi Guitar – Wayne Gabriel Guitar, Backing Vocals – Joel Nohnn Orchestrated By – Ron Frangipane Photography By – Bob Gruen, Iain Macmillian Piano, Organ, Harmonium, Trumpet – Adam Ippolito Producer – John Lennon, Yoko Ono Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Stan Bronstein Featured John Lennon on guitar, using the pseudonym "Joel Nohnn." Custom Apple labels with Yoko's face imposed on Sides 1 and 3. This version is autocoupled – discs are paired 1/4 and 2/3. On disc 2, Side 2 is the sliced side, side 3 is the full/face side. Comes with custom inner sleeves with lyrics and credits. Inside gatefold contains Ono's essay "The Feminization of Society". An abridged version of this essay was previously published in The New York Times in February of 1972. The full essay was published in Sundance Magazine in May of 1972. Ono's "Approximately Infinite Universe" essay is printed on the back side of the album sleeve. ____ back cover: John and I were having a conversation about astral identity. John was in a mood to start it off with a "No" and I with a "Yes." It's a seesaw game we play--though we prefer to think of it as a dialectic thinking process we developed between us, and that the seesaw will grow a propeller and start to float in the air, if we seesawed enough. So! We were ruminating on astral identity. J: It's a bit uhh, you know. Y: Right. But you know how an arbitarary number-series starts to make a pattern and repeats itself in the end. Say if the universe is infinite sometime or other it may start to repeat itself. Still, the idea of John from Liverpool and Yoko from Tokyo existing in another planet as well, having tea when we were having tea, that sort of thing, was a bit too much, John said, and his beautiful toes started to move up and down in bed. Y: Maybe there's a timewarp and they'd be doing something we did last year, John. You're just offended. Men feel threatened when their uniqueness is questioned. J: Not that. It just means that you believe in fatalism. Y: Not necessarily. It only means that there are many, many universes. Infinite numbers of. J: Infinity is just a man-made concept, it doesn't exist. Y: Look, take numbers. Numbers are a concept, too. There's no such thing as number one, say. It's actually a numr that is an infinite approximation to number one, that we call number one. Like 0.999999...to infinity but we build bridges and buildings on those infinitely approximate numbers not on definite ones. That means that we are always just at the verge of things, verge of being. That goes for buildings and ships and everything.John turned into an English teapot before my eyes, and I found myself drifting off to a cosmic nowhere by myself. Y: If it works on a microcosmic world like numbers below one, why not out there in the universe? Universe is infinitely approximate. But that means that it's at least approximately infinite, right? So the concept of infinity is not just a romanticism, John. It is an approximately infinite universe. I heard a tiny grunt and John saying he liked the sound of the words. Then suddenly we realized that this time we were both drifting out in cosmos somewhere together, like God's two little dandruffs floating in the universe. "Astral identity! Wow!" "Something else, right?" "Right!" Later, we came down to Earth and went back to our weekly ceremony of washing our hair and helping each other dry it. (December '72 New York) ____ Secretly Canadian – SC283, Chimera Music – CHIM22 US/Jul 14, 2017 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, White Includes: Printed inner sleeves with lyrics. 'A Hole to See the Sky Through' thick card die-cut postcard with download code (includes bonus tracks) 2-12 Dogtown 2-13 yoko ono - she gets down off her knees 8" x 8" 12 page booklet with Ono's essay "The Feminization of Society" and photos. A2 sized poster ____