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Say Hello Festival, July 14th

We're happy to announce that we will be performing on July 14th at the Say Hello Festival: http://www.sayhellofes.com/

The festival is a benefit for victims of the Fukushima disaster, so we are particularly honored and proud to be a part of it.  

We hope to see you there!

Australia & New Zealand June Tour Dates

We're on tour in Australia and New Zealand next month. Come see us:
THUR 20 JUNE Auckland KINGS ARMS
plus special guests
Tickets from UTR www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/ticket, Real Groovy and Rough Peel Music

FRI 21 JUNE Wellington BODEGA
plus special guests
Tickets from UTR www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/ticket

SAT 22 JUNE Hobart DARK MOFO Satanalia
plus Boris, The Drones, The Stickmen, Barbarion, Fourteen Nights at Sea, Kangaroo Skull, A Dead Forest Index, Angel Eyes and more
www.darkmofo.net.au Tickets on sale http://www.mona.net.au/shop/dark-mofo

SUN 23 JUNE - Melbourne THE HIFI
plus special guests
Tickets from www.thehifi.com.au or 1300THEHIFI, Polyester Records - CBD & Fitzroy, Sight n Sound - Northcote & Boronia,
consume.oztix.com.au and Oztix outlets.

WED 26 JUNE - Brisbane THE HIFI
plus special guests
Tickets from www.thehifi.com.au or 1300THEHIFI, Butterbeats, Uni Co-op Bookshop Sunshine Coast,
consume.oztix.com.au and Oztix outlets.

THUR 27 JUNE - Sydney THE HIFI
plus special guests
Tickets from www.thehifi.com.au or 1300THEHIFI, Red Eye Records, Utopia Records, Mall Music - Brookvale, Coogee Bay Hotel, The Recordstore - Darlinghurst,
Sandy's Music - Dee Why, Westsyde Connection - Dullwich Hill, Resist Records - Newtown, consume.oztix.com.au and Oztix outlets.

Leftover Mexican Tour T-Shirts

We have some Mexico Tour t-shirts left over from, well, our tour of Mexico that we're selling for a discount price on our online store. Check them out:
GREY: http://monoofjapan.bandcamp.com/merch/mono-mexico-tour-2013-t-shirt-grey
WHITE: http://monoofjapan.bandcamp.com/merch/mono-mexico-tour-2013-t-shirt-white

Online Store

As you may have seen already, we have started selling physical merchandise like CDs, DVDs, T-shirts, Posters, etc., through our Online Store, shipping everywhere in the world. Over the next six months, we expect to expand what we carry to include much more.

Tour Dates

We will be starting our second European Tour in support of "For My Parents" beginning on Feburary 7th in Vienna. You can see the full dates on the Tour Dates page. We're also planning some shows in Southeast Asia and Mexico in April, and will be announcing those soon as well.

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VIDEOS

Legend: A Journey Through Iceland

Live in London 2011 w/ Holy Ground Orchestra

Follow the Map

BIOGRAPHY

Takaakira "Taka" Goto (guitar) / Tamaki (bass, piano) / Yoda (guitar) / Yasunori Takada (drums)

MONO was formed in the winter of 1999 in Tokyo, Japan. Since then, MONO has quickly piqued interests in both audience and critics alike by staging overwhelming, emotionally splendid, atmospheric performances. In September of 2000, MONO released a 4-song EP called Hey, You. EP, released on Forty-4 Records, which received exceptional reviews in both Japan and the US. In March 2001, MONO performed at SXSW, broadening their fan base. In December 2001, the band's long-awaited debut full-length album, Under the Pipal Tree, was released on John Zorn's TZADIK imprint. The album was well received by a variety of influential underground media outlets.

In March 2002, MONO embarked on their fourth North American tour. They hit 10 cities including Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia and Boston, and shared the stage with Jim O'Rourke at Tonic in NYC. They wrapped up their tour by performing at SXSW for the second year in a row. They followed with numerous festival appearances, including the industry-centric Popkomm Music Festival in Cologne, Germany and Fomoz Fest, the Largest music in festival in Taiwan. They also found time to record their second full-length album entitled One Step More and You Die which was released October 2, 2002 in Japan, and was supported by a 30-city tour throughout Japan and North America, sharing bills with Kinski and Black Dice, among many others. This led to the band signing a deal with the Arena Rock Recording Company, followed by a worldwide release of One Step More and You Die in early 2003.

Following their most successful US tour to date in the fall of 2003, MONO signed a deal with one of their all-time favorite labels, Temporary Residence, Limited. Beginning in 2003 MONO recorded three full-length studio albums with Chicago engineer Steve Albini: Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (2004), You Are There (2006), and Hymn To The Immortal Wind (2009). Additionally, they have released a singles and rarities collection called Gone (2007), and collaborated with acclaimed experimental electronic artist World's End Girlfriend for the melancholy Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain (2006).

In 2009 they began performing a series of special live events featuring a 25-piece orchestra, including sold-out concerts in esteemed symphony halls in New York City, London, Tokyo, and Australia. The New York performance was captured on audio and video and released in 2010 as Holy Ground: NYC Live With The Wordless Music Orchestra. In 2012, they returned to the studio with the Wordless Music Orchestra to record their sixth studio album, For My Parents, with engineer Henry Hirsch. It was mixed by Fred Weaver.

Within the rage of distortion and bombardment of feedback, you are just as likely to experience sadness and beauty, light and darkness, chaos and peace, happiness and melancholy. It is MONO's ability to combine, intertwine and swing back and forth from two such opposite extremes to create an emotional phantasmagoria that makes this band worth experiencing.

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