Mono "Hymn To The Immortal Wind" Listening Party Special Performance:Rainf 2/2

Mono "Hymn To The Immortal Wind" Listening Party

Special Performance By:Rainf

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. 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 MONOs 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 conductors opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments.
While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONOs 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 MONOs strongest virtue.

By Jeremy DeVine (Temporary Residence)

P/S: Mono's fifth studio album "Hymn To The Immortal Wind" will be available in Malaysia from 15th April onwards, the album will be distributed by Soundscape Records.

For order, contact soundscaperecords@gmail.com

More details:

http://www.soundscape-records.com
http://www.myspace.com/soundscaperecords
http://www.mono-jpn.com
http://www.myspace.com/monojp

Mono 新专辑 Hymn To The Immortal Wind 试听派对

扩音版图独家代理日本后摇团体MONO的最新专辑Hymn To The Immortal World，这张由大师Steve Albini负责录音的专辑将收录7首作品，分别是Ashes In The Snow、Burial At The Sea、Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn、Pure As Snow(Trails of The Winter Storm）、Follow The Map、The Battle To Heaven和Everlasting Light。
乐队更是率先在官网上提供Ashes In The Snow的免费下载，让乐迷先听为快。核心成员Taka曾在去年吉隆坡的演出时说过他希望能够与交响乐团合作，将古典乐的元素溶入MONO的作品，展现出巨大的能量与恢宏­气息。如今，在重复聆听Ashes In The Snow後，可以真切的感受到乐队所欲达到的境界。作品以轻巧的Xylophone音色作为开端，只延续了一小节，说不上铺陈，因为吉它依然在乐队心目中仍占据相当重要的­位置。那些由MONO独家酿造出的吉它音色很快让听者进入状况，但是真正牵动情绪的是弦乐的部分，由Taka亲自编写，即梦幻又凄美，很容易就沉沦其中。直到爆裂的吉它声­响起，才警觉那是MONO所创造出的幻境，时而真实美妙，时而惊心动魄。

Rainf
http://www.myspace.com/rainf

19 April 2009
FINDARS SpAcE
Lot 2.01,The Annexe,Central Market,Jalan Hang Kasturi,Kuala Lumpur.
http://findars.blogspot.com/
Video credits:Wong Eng Leong

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