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Tokyo, Japan (1999 – present)
There are eight artists sharing the name Mono;
The name is used by a Japanese post-rock band, a British trip-hop band, a Dutch post-rock band, a female Austrian reggae artist, a Swedish trance artist, a Korean pop ballad trio, a Polish hip-hop band and a new Dutch indie rock band.
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Japanese: Mono are a post-rock group from Tokyo, Japan formed in 1999. The band consists of Takaakira Goto (electric guitar), Yoda (electric guitar), Tamaki Kunishi (bass guitar, guitar, piano, glockenspiel), and Yasunori Takada (drum kit, glockenspiel, synthesiser).
Mono have released five studio albums in their ten years of activity. They spent their early years, from 1999 to 2003, touring Asia, Europe, and America relentlessly, and released two studio albums, Under the Pipal Tree (2001) and One Step More and You Die (2002) on on Tzadik and Music Mine Inc. respectively. From 2004 to 2007, Mono signed to Temporary Residence Limited, released two more studio albums, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (2004) and You Are There (2006), and toured worldwide in their support. In 2008, the band took a break, and later returned the following year with a new studio album, Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009).
The band’s style of instrumental rock music is influenced by the genres of experimental rock and shoegazing, as well as by both the classical and contemporary classical periods of classical music, and also by noise and minimalism.
The name is used by a Japanese post-rock band, a British trip-hop band, a Dutch post-rock band, a female Austrian reggae artist, a Swedish trance artist, a Korean pop ballad trio, a Polish hip-hop band and a new Dutch indie rock band.
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Japanese: Mono are a post-rock group from Tokyo, Japan formed in 1999. The band consists of Takaakira Goto (electric guitar), Yoda (electric guitar), Tamaki Kunishi (bass guitar, guitar, piano, glockenspiel), and Yasunori Takada (drum kit, glockenspiel, synthesiser).
Mono have released five studio albums in their ten years of activity. They spent their early years, from 1999 to 2003, touring Asia, Europe, and America relentlessly, and released two studio albums, Under the Pipal Tree (2001) and One Step More and You Die (2002) on on Tzadik and Music Mine Inc. respectively. From 2004 to 2007, Mono signed to Temporary Residence Limited, released two more studio albums, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (2004) and You Are There (2006), and toured worldwide in their support. In 2008, the band took a break, and later returned the following year with a new studio album, Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009).
The band’s style of instrumental rock music is influenced by the genres of experimental rock and shoegazing, as well as by both the classical and contemporary classical periods of classical music, and also by noise and minimalism.
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Pure As Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)
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The Battle To Heaven
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Everlasting Light
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The Flames Beyond the Cold Mountain
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A Heart Has Asked for the Pleasure
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The Remains of the Day
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Are You There?
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Moonlight
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Shoutbox
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iriceboy wrote:
Where Am I .
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MelonHCST wrote:
Do it. I went to the first NYC show in May and it was spectacular
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StoatBox wrote:
Looks like I might be going to their anniversary concert :D
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Kowaqqatzi wrote:
and definetely HTTIW is one of their best albums thaumo. troll or not, GTFO
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Kowaqqatzi wrote:
i was listening to lastfm radio, and mono's follow the map turned up. i had to study, and that gave me the idea to put the entire HTTIW album. magically, it started randomly at floow the map. i was listening to both songs, with (again, magically) one tempo beat difference from each other. i was about to exit lastfm's player but the then i realized it mixed perfectly and the song sounds better this way. friggin amazing experience, specially the climax.
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coleio wrote:
Ignore thaumo, it's a troll.
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BebopBeatnik wrote:
Huh, I didnt find Hymn depressing. Peoples' reactions are interesting. Hymn's music seems like it has the most 'hope' of all their discog to me.
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ShaniaEve wrote:
Beautiful music.Very good!
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kellyellyson wrote:
favorite band!
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AlirezaSer wrote:
Deep !
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dbrain0 wrote:
I don't get that sense about the guitar lines. I think the simplicity of it (what you seem to see as cliche) is what helps to give it that sense of fragility they were going for. some parts on the album are childlike in their simple, honest feelings
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q_uiz wrote:
Are you guys seriously discussing the emotions Mono's music evokes in different individuals? I can't describe this as anything else than 'pathetic'. Why should it be impossible for Hymn to the Immortal Wind to be depressing? That's just as valid as describing it as 'beautiful' or 'uplifting' or 'menacing' because we're not all the same person and we're not always in the same mood.
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thaumo wrote:
@dbrain - the 'delicate' aspect doesn't put me off at all, of course that's always been there, it's the actual music being played.The guitar lines sound very cliche and cloying, in a very obvious manner. They're a better band than that.
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Spark_and_Spark wrote:
Hmm. I'm not sure whether to buy their albums though a shop in my own country or to get them imported from Japan. I'd want to own the original versions, which I assume would be the Japanese versions. But this band seem very popular in the West, so I'm not sure if their albums are originally produced in Japan or through a Western label.
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dbrain0 wrote:
@thaumo, they've always had delicate moments in their songs. the new album has more fragility because the band has said they wanted to write something more inspiring this time around
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onelittleatlas wrote:
It's beyond words [3] Hymn is everything that Mono are and it's taken a lot of effort and their imagination to conjure such a beast of an album. It's not depressing it's inspiring and takes you to another place. If anything it's a beautiful piece of work and Steve albini justifies it's worth more so.
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BleedingFlower wrote:
how twilight could be connected to Mono?) & it's not depressing, it's beyond words! [2]
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kellyellyson wrote:
it's not depressing, it's beyond words!
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thaumo wrote:
hymn to the immortal wind is depressing for people who think twighlight is a modern masterpiece of cinema.
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SdCloud69 wrote:
live in 3 weeks. cant wait bros
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MAO CLUB, 上海, Shanghai, China
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3
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Transmission Room, Auckland, New Zealand
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