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Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Experimental, Ambient
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Tracklist :

01. Ashes in the Snow (11:45)
02. Burial at Sea (10:38)
03. Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn ( 6:00)
04. Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm) (11:25)
05. Follow the Map ( 3:55)
06. The Battle to Heaven (12:51)
07. Everlasting Light (10:23)

Hymn to the Immortal Wind is the fifth album by the Japanese post-rock band Mono, to be released March 24, 2009. The album was recorded and mixed in June and November 2008 at the Electrical Audio Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois, by Steve Albini. A music video for the fifth track, Follow the Map, has been released to promote the album.

Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind. The music is naturally majestic, with MONO's trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up.

While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO's music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO's strongest virtue - save for perhaps their uncanny ability to sound every bit like a plane crashing into a Beethoven concert.

Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor’s opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments.

The album is a full return to all of the big sounds that we’ve come to know from Mono. These guys don’t mess around, it’s always a full delivery above and beyond the call of duty. Listen to the songs and decide for yourself.

[me]O Dear God... thx u for MONO !!!

Left - I Could Stand Alone Here (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock
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Tracklist :
01. Fear
02. Tear
03. Dear
04. Hear
05. Breeze
06. Sear
07. Rear
08. Clouds
09. Near
10. Stand

Member of post-rock band Mono, (guitar), Taka carries out the emotion of his songs in all instrumental cinematic soundscapes, taking you through tumultuous sonic quakes and serene ambient flourishes.

[me]This album is so peaceful... *sigh* even when he's alone, Taka can produce such an Awesome album. Genius !!! Brilliant !!!

Thx to Sir Mogwai of SirensSound for the link :)

MONO POST "ASHES IN THE SNOW" MP3 (AWESOME !!!)

Japanese post-rockers Mono have debuted the lead track from their upcoming full-length, Hymn To The Immortal Wind. You can download "Ashes In The Snow" at this link.

Hymn To The Immortal Wind is due out March 24th via Temporary Residence, following up both 2006's You Are There and Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain, the latter of which was their collaborative album with World's End Girlfriend.

[me]WOW !!! An eleven minutes-plus track-lenght. Majestic. Epic. Fantastic. I love the xylophone and strings. AWESOME !!!

Mono - Yesterday Once More (The Carpenter's Cover) (Nice !!!)

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MONO (Japan) Discography

Genre : Post-rock, Ambient, Experimental
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Gone - A Collection of EP's 2000-2007

Tracklist :

1. Finlandia
2. Black Woods
3. Yearning
4. Memorie Dal Futoro
5. Due Foglie, Una Candela: Il Soffio Del Vento
6. Since I've Been Waiting For You
7. Gone
8. Black Rain
9. Rainbow
10. Little Boy (1945 - Future)

Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (2004)

Tracklist :

1. 16.12
2. mere your pathetic light
3. halcyon (beautiful days)
4. 2 candles, 1 wish
5. ode
6. The sky remains the same as ever
7. lost snow
8. a thousand paper cranes

One Step More And You Die (2002)

Tracklist :

1. Where Am I
2. Com(?)
3. Sabbath
4. Mopish Morning, Halation Wiper
5. A Speeding Car
6. Loco Tracks
7. Halo
8. Giant Me On The Other Side

Under the Pipal Tree (2001)

Tracklist :

1. Karelia (opus 2)
2. The Kidnapper Bell
3. Jackie Says
4. Op Beach
5. Holy
6. Error #9
7. L'america
8. Human Highway


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from Wiki

Mono were founded in January 2000 by guitarist Takaakira Goto. Working by himself, Goto completed most of Mono's demo tracks, partly influenced by guitarist Loren Connors. By late 1999 Goto began the search for band members; the first to join was fellow guitarist and long time friend Yoda. Soon afterwards the two guitarists linked up with bassist Tamaki and drummer Yasunori Takada. The group soon released a 4 track EP entitled Hey, You on the small independent label Forty-4.

Following Hey, You Mono put together its first full length album, Under the Pipal Tree in 2001 on Tzadik Records. Under the Pipal Tree, along with the EP, introduced Mono's style, which is focused on layered guitar melodies. All of Mono's songs are entirely instrumental, and Strings and pianos are also prominently featured in several songs. Under the Pipal Tree was met with somewhat mixed reviews and was referred to by Goto in a 2006 interview with Phil McMullen as a "very, very young album"[1]. Whilst recording the album, the September 11th attacks took place, which were to have a significant effect on Mono's later work.

In 2002, Mono finished their second album, One Step More and You Die. Many critics considered this as having a more distinctive sound than the preceding album. An abbreviated tour in parts of New York and Sweden took place after the album's release. The length of the tour and the behavior of some of the American crowds, who Goto said in the McMullan interview were "always talking a lot and drinking beers and making a lot of noise" left the band somewhat unsatisfied.

Soon afterward, Mono moved on to a new project in direct response to the aftermath of September 11th. This album was titled New York Soundtracks and was recorded in collaboration with several important members of the New York experimental scene, such as DJ Olive, Jackie-O Motherfucker, and Loren Connors. New York Soundtracks consists of remixes of all of One Step More and You Die's tracks.

Following Soundtracks, Mono embarked on the production of their next album, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined which was released on October 5, 2004. There is much back story to this album, especially behind one of its songs, A Thousand Paper Cranes. The inspiration for this song was the story of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl from Hiroshima who contracted leukemia at the age of 13, dying shortly afterwards. While in her hospital bed, Sadako attempted to fold one thousand paper cranes, which, according to Japanese folklore, had once cured a girl of disease. Following the release of this album, Mono began a lengthy world tour.

On June 24, 2006, Mono released their next album, You Are There. You Are There met similar success to Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain and was accompanied by worldwide tours throughout 2006 and 2007.

A collection of EPs entitled "Gone", as well as a 100 minute long documentary called "The Sky Remains the Same as Ever", were released in late 2007.

Mono, like most bands associated with the underground music scene, tries to maintain a strong relationship with their fans. Goto, in a recent interview with Semtex Magazine, pointed out that for Mono, promotion is not a priority, they tour "to meet the crowd".

Mono - The Sky Remains The Same As Ever DVDRip (2007) (AWESOME !!!)

01. Intro
02. The Flames Beyond the Cold Mountain
03. The Kidnapper Bell
04. Moonlight
05. Interview with Lost Snow
06. Yearning
07. Yearning in Sweden
08. Sabbath
09. Lost Snow
10. Lost Snow Audience Shot
11. Gone in The Electrical
12. Mere Your Pathetique Light
13. A Thousand Paper Cranes in Hiroshima and NY
14. Com in Korea
15. Rainbow
16. Halcyon (Beautiful Days)
17. Gone / (Image Reflection) Collaboration with J (Live in Seattle) / The Kidnapper Bell and others

What is the underlying souce of power of MONO? What makes their sound so powerful as if it reaches the bottome of our heart, grab it and shake it brutally?
What makes their music go beyond the borders and create the same exceptional craziness among people of different color of skin, different race, different language?
You might find an answer in this DVD.

It captured their documentary of European tour in the winter of 2006, the tours in Japan, Korea, US and Canada in 2007.

The DVD is the first video MONO has ever created and yet it could be the ultimate complete work of their history.

This DVD was filmed and edited by Teppei. He is well known figure as "photographer specialized in live music" in Japan. This is his first video he has ever created.
He made five roundtrips among the continents and spent more than sixty days to film the band. And at the end, he had over a hundred tapes to work on editing.
Teppei's original vision and skill to capture a moment, that has been nurtured as still photographer for many years, is vividly reflected in the moving images in this DVD.

He succeeded to seize the beauty, intensity, liveness of MONO's live performance.

Only a person who gained band's trust this much could have done.

As Teppei traveled with MONO on the road for many days, he filmed the audience of many countries and showed us the band's off-stage life on the road including the reunion with the band's close friends.
This is a feature film of raw passion, that goes beyond the borders and creates one exceptional craziness among people of different color of skin, different race and different language

Filmed, Directed and Edited
by Teppei Kishida

and finally the links:
Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6, Part7, Part8, Part9, Part10, Part11

[me]If you NEVER seen MONO (japan) Live, this DVD is A MUST. Brilliant Movie!!! Try it! And then, BUY IT IF YOU LIKE IT !!! It's WORTH IT !!!

TRAVEL IN CONSTANTS SERIES

Travels In Constants is a Temporary Residence Limited edition mailorder only CD series. The CDs are not available in stores, only by subscription, and all of them contain EXCLUSIVE, UNRELEASED songs. No lame alternate versions or low-grade out-takes. These are prime releases by amazing artists.

[me]These are Travels In Constants CD from my fav. artist. Enjoy















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Mono - You Are There (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Ambient, Experimental
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Tracklist :

01) The Flames Beyond the Cold Mountain
02) A Heart Has Asked for the Pleasure
03) Yearning
04) Are You There?
05) The Remains of the Day
06) Moonlight

Captured to tape by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, IL, You Are There extends the cinematic drama of 2003's Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (also recorded by Albini), while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded One Step More and You Die. MONO disproves the myth that an increased focus on intricate song structures and string arrangements comes at the expense of youthful energy and inspired aggression. With You Are There, MONO's representation of tragedy comes with an inherent joy, delivered with the hope that in all dark there is equal parts light. They're not heavy like Black Sabbath - they're heavy like Beethoven.

Nuff said.. Straight Post-Rock from Tokyo, Japan. One of my favorite and inspiration.