Kosmik Radiation Radio - Dec 19, 2007 Playlist

Without a doubt, Yoko Ono is the most famous musician ever to come from Japan, and perhaps the most well known avant-garde artist of the 20th century. Though ironically, her reknown is mostly based on her being "the widow Lennon" -- when in fact her marriage to John (his second and her third) was very much a marriage of equals. Before she hooked up with the lead Beatle, Yoko was well known globally as a leading member of the fluxus movement, and hung around and performed on the same stages as other luminaries of the avant-garde such as John Cage, LaMonte Young, George Maciunas and her first husband, the regarded experimental composer Toshi Ichiyanagi. (In case you're keeping score, her second husband was jazz musician Tony Cox.) The double album Fly was Yoko's second solo album (named for an experimental film she made with Lennon), and is arguably her musical masterpiece (though from a more "rock-ist" perspective, the free form caterwauling on her debut Plastic Ono Band is also top notch -- it's even better than Lennon's simultaneously released album of the same title!)
Here are some of Yoko's experimental films from the 1960's (including Fly.) And here's a clip of Yoko jamming with John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards in one of her first "rocknroll" performances.
As a bonus, you can watch the entire 100 minute long documentary film about Takehisa Kosugi's Taj Mahal Travellers here!!!

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
Les Rallizes Denudes	Blind Baby Has Its Mother's Eyes	Blind Baby Has Its Mother's Eyes	rec. 1989?	Japan
Masayuki Takayanagi & New Directions	The Galactic System	Independence Tread On Sure Ground	1969	Japan

Frank Zappa (Born Dec 21, 1940)	Part 1	Lumpy Gravy	1967	USA
Yoko Ono (with Ornette Coleman)	AOS	Plastic Ono Band	1970	Japan/USA

Yoko Ono	You	Fly CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1971	Japan
Toshi Ichiyanagi / Michael Ranta / Takehisa Kosugi	Part 2	Improvisation Sep. 1975	1975	Japan

Taj Mahal Travellers (Takehisa Kosugi)	II	August 1974	1974	Japan
Takehisa Kosugi	Mano Dharma '74	Catch-Wave	1975	Japan

East Bionic Symphonia (Takehisa Kosugi)	Part 1 (7:30 pm - 7:47 pm)	East Bionic Symphonia	1976	Japan
Group Ongaku (Takehisa Kosugi)	Object	Music Of Group Ongaku	rec. 1960	Japan