Mono - "Hymn To The Immortal Wind"
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Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, Mono return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive "Hymn To The Immortal Wind". After touring almost non-stop for five years, the band hibernated for over a year to focus solely on writing "Hymn". The result is their most thoughtful and eclectic album to date. Release March 24, 2009.
Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. 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. 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. 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.
Members of band:
Takaakira "Taka" Goto: guitar
Tamaki: bass
Yoda: guitar
Yasunori Takada:drumms
In support of the new album, MONO will be touring europe in March / April 2009
Confirmed shows:
Sat 28th March '09 / Netherlands Haarlem @ Patronaat
Mon 30th March '09 / Denmark Copenhagen @ Loppen
Tue 7th April '09 / Czech Republic Prague @ Palac Akropolis
Wed 8th April '09 / Austria Vienna @ Arena
Wed 15th April '09 / Switzerland St Gallen @ Grabenhalle
Fri 17th April '09 / Spain Barcelona @ La[2]
Sat 18th April '09 / Spain Madrid @ Ritmo Y Compas
Thu 23rd April '09 / Luxemburg Esch-Alzette @ Rockhal
Fri 24th April '09 / Netherlands Tilburg @ Roadburn festival
