John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (Ultimate Mixes)Plastic Ono Band was the debut solo album by John Lennon. Released on December 11th 1970, John and Yoko had started writing and demoing at Abbey Road (EMI Studios) in the summer, with recording sessions during September October After the break up of The Beatles that year, John and Yoko embarked on a period of self reflection and experimentation, with the results that the songs and sessions for Plastic Ono Band were heavily influenced by his immersion

house-rocking signature sound

The pulsing synthetics and noise textures of the more overtly technetronic “Scanner”

during the 13th year of their rebirth

In The Deep

this album was the key recording of what became modal jazz

“Then with the autoharp

' work the way Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong worked together

The dirge-like drone that opens the record gives way to a wall of reverb that sounds fuller and brighter than anything they've committed to tape

It soon became clear that there was a harder edge to everything

Sticker Sheet insert (note: these will also be in standard vinyl version)

with the veteran bluesman fuelled by homemade moonshine supported by a young hippy rhythm section

The band recorded additional material in other locations: the album song Tighten Up in Brooklyn with Danger Mouse (Brian Burton)