Back in 2010, Yoko Ono\’s Plastic Ono Band performed a series of shows at L.A.\’s the Orpheum, featuring collaborations with Iggy Pop, RZA, and Carrie Fisher among others. One of the then-lesser known bands on the bill was Merrill Garbus\’ tUnE-yArDs, who covered/updated \”We\’re All Water\”, from Ono and John Lennon\’s 1972 album, Some Time in New York City.

The cover is now seeing a release: \”We\’re All Water\” b/w a remix of Ono\’s \”Warrior Woman\” (from 1973\’s Feeling the Space) will be the second in a series of 10\” benefit records curated by Ono, to be released today via Chimera Music. Profits from the records and 100% of income from downloads will be donated to the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, working to help families affected by Hurricane Sandy.

The remix previews a second volume of Yes, I\’m a Witch, featuring reinventions of Ono\’s songs, which will be released later this year.
Of the project, Garbus said:

\”Getting familiar with Yoko\’s vast body of work has been a true education for me. When it came time to choose one of Yoko\’s songs to cover, and then later one to remix, I had the opportunity to delve into the ground-breaking, punk-before-punk, radical, brave and brilliant work she had done, album after album. More musicians should learn Yoko\’s history as a songwriter and performer– she\’s been light years ahead of us for decades.\”