If you're going to be in London on the 17th of June please add this to your calander!



The GOASTT
The Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger pairs Sean Lennon (acoustic guitar / vocals) with Charlotte Kemp Muhl (vocalist / songwriter), on mysterious and surreal melodies. The GOASTT is a work-in-progress, currently recording their first album.
http://myspace.com/theghostofasabertoothedtiger


IF BY YES
Sublime sounds from the extraordinary vocalist Petra Haden and Yuka Honda, the brain of Cibo Matto, with Yuko “Migu” Araki & Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu from Cornelius.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zOW1wueHrAU
http://myspace.com/petrahaden
http://myspace.com/yukahonda

AMOR DE DIAS
Amor De Dias is the secret tropicalia/psych-folk/Erik Satie meets the Beach Boys side project of Alasdair from the Clientele and Lupe from Pipas.

Get tickets here ---> http://wegottickets.com/event/49878
Venue website ---> http://cafeoto.co.uk/

$15.99 CD



VARIOUS ARTISTS
Chimera Music Release No 0
(Chimera Music)

"You Feel Right (Cornelius Remix)" If By Yes
"Ask the Elephant!" Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

Chimera Music is a brand new label from none other than Sean Lennon, troubled offspring of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. The surprise to me (having heard his earlier recordings) is the artistic variety on offer here as he pulls in favors from friends and colleagues to come up with a genuinely high quality sampler. Gone is the Beatles-lite jangle of Lennon's earlier work and we are treated to snippets of his psychedelically-minded compositions for the forthcoming movieRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead. Sitting beside this are tracks from (unsurprisingly) the Plastic Ono band, Cornelius and, most interestingly, If By Yes, a new project from Yuka Honda, the woman behind Cibo Matto. The mood here is very much psychedelic, bordering on the kind of library-heavy soundtrack digging you find from Trunk Records or B-Music, but with an artistic focus that gives the tracks a distinctly contemporary feel. It's hard to know exactly what Chimera Music will offer in the months and years to come, but if this collection is anything to go by, then the early signs are very good indeed. The damaged mind sounds more appealing than ever when it has company... [JT]

Now available for digital download. This is our record company's first release in the States. Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.fina-music.com/
http://www.fina-music.com/catalog/index.html?id=103925

CD:

http://www.othermusic.com/

Love,

Sean

Well I failed to post that we were debuting Chimera Music in Tokyo 21 January, for which I'm sorry, but there was just too much to deal with leading up to the gig. The show was packed anyway, and turned out to be a huge success. Phew!

The artists playing were Kemp and Eden (Charlotte's band since childhood), the GOASTT (my new band with Charlotte), If By Yes (Yuka Honda's band with Petra Haden, and Shimmy and Yuko, bassist and drummer from Cornelius band, and generally the cutest husband and wife I've ever seen), Myself doing solo tunes, and my mom's Plastic Ono Band Revisited or Revised or what have you.

To top it all off our backing band was Cornelius! For those of you who don't know, you should all go listen to their most recent album Sensuous Sounds. But for those of you who do, I'm sure the shock and awe are just setting in. Cornelius was just made the 2nd Japanese artist in history to be nominated for a Grammy in America, for which I'm very proud. I'm such a big fan of this band, the fact that they'd want to be our backing band is such an incredible honor. They really played their asses off, and learned 20 songs in 5 days in order for us to mimize the amount of time we'd be in Japan (the country is not cheap)

The way the show worked was more like a variety gig, or how I imagine early Motown gigs might have been, meaning there was one band, with different artists and bands trading off from song to song.

Based on the audience reaction, and the enthusiasm over merchandise, I'd say the show was a huge success, for which I am thrilled. Starting a label has been so exciting but also nerve wrecking at times. Having a successful debut in Tokyo has revitalized my belief that what we are doing is the right thing.

To coincide with the show we put out a sample CD of Chimera Artist which is available on Japanese iTunes and Japanese Amazon. We're working on importing it to America, and doing an American Sample album in the near future. To all our American fans we apologize for starting over seas, but the stars were just aligned here in Japan, so we had to go where the flow was. We're just getting our feat on the ground as a company, so doing an introduction in Japan really helped, and was such a pleasure as well.

A children's book I illustrated has also been released by Kodanshya in Japan. For those of you who have mentioned to me that you're hesitating to get it because of the language factor, don't worry, the book is printed in English AND Japanese on every page, so it's in fact good for kids to get a leg in that door. The drawings are all based on my niece and nephew, whom I love dearly, and few are based on my great great great grandfather, who was in fact a samurai. (There was a statue of him at one of my ancestors houses that I used as a reference.)

Unfortunately we sold out on all the practical sizes of teeshirts. There are only a few odd sized ones left. I'm thinking of throwing them in my suit case and bringing them back to NY to make available somehow.

Charlotte and I customized a bunch of vintage coats by drawing all over them and sewing on official Chimer badges. Those just flew off the merch table, so we're thinking of trying to make twice as many next time, although we'll need a lot of time to do it.

We'll be back stateside early Feb recording a new Yoko album. That's gonna be really fun. Then off to Paris 25 Feb to play Serge tribute with John Zorn. Singing in French is so difficult. Somehow I always forget the words.

Anyway, much love to everyone. hope to see you at the American Chimera debut show, although it hasn't been booked, I'll let you know as soon as it has.

Much Love,

Sean

We've decided to play a last minute gig on Monday 12 Jan at the Living Room at 600p. Would love to see some people there. Much Love, Sean (Please note the time has changed to 6p NOT 630p, thanks...)

I've started a record label called Chimera Music. I debuted some new tracks on Mark Ronson's East Village Radio show tonight. You can check it out as a podcast if you want to hear my new band The GOASTT, Yuka Honda's new band, If By Yes, and Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band 'revisited.'

Much love to everyone, and Happy Holidays.

Sean