Under The Pipal Tree | 2017, Full-length (Remastered Edition) |
Release: | January 20, 2017 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Ltd. |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
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Under The Pipal Tree is the debut album by now-legendary Japanese experimental rock band, MONO. Released in 2001 on avant-garde icon John Zorn's Tzadik label, Under The Pipal Tree showcased a young Japanese quartet whose wide range of influences – most notably Sonic Youth, Mogwai, The Velvet Underground, and Neil Young's Crazy Horse – were on ferocious and ambitious display. Though MONO would eventually become known for their expert marriage of metal and classical genres, Under The Pipal Tree highlights the band's psychedelic roots. Long stretches of hypnotic, melodic washes give way to scorching guitar freakouts that evaporate into haunting silence. It's remarkable not just for its earnest exploration, but for its startling execution. Fifteen years and eight albums later, Under The Pipal Tree stands as one of the great debut albums by a seminal underground band. Finally released on vinyl for the first time ever, Under The Pipal Tree has been remastered for vinyl by longtime friend and tour mate, Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. The double album is packaged in all new artwork, and is pressed onto audiophile-quality 100% virgin vinyl. This stunning album has never looked, sounded, or felt better. |
Requiem For Hell | 2016, Full-length |
Release: | October 14 (Worldwide) |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited (North America) Pelagic Records (Europe) Magniph/Hostess (Japan) |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums Guests: Susan Voelz - Violin 1 &Orchestrator Inger Petersen Carle - Violin 1 Andra Kulans - Violin 2 Vannia Phillips - Violin 2 Nora Barton - Cello Veronica Nettles - Cello Alison Chesley - Cello (on track 2) Nick Broste - Trombone (on track 3) |
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「このアルバムは2015年に絶え間なく降り注いできたインスピレーションを曲にしたものだ。1曲、また1曲と書き終え、タイトルをつけたあとに、偶然にダンテの”神曲”を読み、自分たちがダンテと同じものにコネクトしていたんだと気づいた。生きながらにして、地獄を抜け、煉獄、そして天国へ行き、現代に戻ってくるという神曲のストーリーはまさに今回のテーマと全く同じものだった。メインカヴァーはグスタフ・ドレが描いた神曲の最後のシーンを使用した。 そしてもうひとつ偶然にも、長き僕達の友、Jeremyに(アメリカのレーベル Temporary Residenceのオーナー)初めての子どもが誕生した。名前はElyと言い、JeremyはまだElyが母親の体内にいる時からその写真や彼女の心音を僕達に送ってくれていた。Elyが産まれ、やがて大きくなった時に聴いてもらいたいと思い、彼女の心音をイントロに使用した”Ely’s Heartbeat”という曲をJeremyに贈った。 死と生、肉体と魂、希望と挫折、光と闇、引き継がれる人間の尊厳と誇り、新しい生命、そういったすべてを感じていただければとても嬉しい。」 |
The Last Dawn | 2014, Full-length |
Release: | October 24 (EU) October 27 (UK) October 28 (North America) November 5 (Japan) |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited (North America) Pelagic Records (Europe) Magniph (Japan) |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass, Piano, Glockenspiel Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums, Glockenspiel, Timpani Guests: Danielle Karppala - Cello Andrew Simpson - Cello Emily Grace Karosas - Violin Walker Konkle - Violin |
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暗黒という名の色彩、幻想と希望、美しい光。激情と静謐が渦巻く、心を捉えるストーリーを言葉無く語る MONO の到達点、"Rays of Darkness","The Last Dawn"を2作品同時リリース!!この2つの作品は、人生における希望と絶望、愛と喪失、言葉では言い表せない痛み、計り知れないほどの喜び、概念的に対極となる2面を音楽を通じて鳴り響かせている。鮮烈な衝撃作、7th & 8th アルバムを2枚同時リリース!!”The Last Dawn" テーマもメロディもより幻想的で希望に満ち溢れ、美しいアルバム、ミニマリストの映画音楽からヴィンテージなシューゲイズまで、その世界は最も純粋なMONOサウンドであり、それぞれの楽曲がシングルになり得る力強い楽曲を収録! |
Rays of Darkness | 2014, Full-length |
Release: | October 24 (EU) October 27 (UK) October 28 (North America) November 5 (Japan) |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited (North America) Pelagic Records (Europe) Magniph (Japan) |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums Guests: Tetsu Fukagawa (envy) - Voice Jacob Valenzuela (Calexico) - Trumpets |
Notes: | 暗黒という名の色彩、幻想と希望、美しい光。激情と静謐が渦巻く、心を捉えるストーリーを言葉無く語る MONO の到達点、"Rays of Darkness","The Last Dawn"を2作品同時リリース!!この2つの作品は、人生における希望と絶望、愛と喪失、言葉では言い表せない痛み、計り知れないほどの喜び、概念的に対極となる2面を音楽を通じて鳴り響かせている。鮮烈な衝撃作、7th & 8th アルバムを2枚同時リリース!!MONO史上、最もブラックなアルバム。焦げ付くようなリフ、破壊的なリズム、ポストハードコアのパイオニアenvyのテツ・フカガワとのコラボレーション。終わりのない暗闇に目の眩むような光線を放射する、「Rays of Darkness」。 |
For My Parents | 2012, Full-length |
Release: | September 4, 2012 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass, Piano, Glockenspiel Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums, Glockenspiel, Timpani, Tubular Bell, Gong Production: Henry Hirsch - Recorded Rachel Alina - Assisted Fred Weaver - Mixed Bob Weston - Mastered The Holy Ground Orchestra: Jeff Milarsky - Conductor Yuki Numata, Courtney Orlando, Emily Ondracek, Patti Kilroy - Violin 1 Conrad Harris, Ben Russel, Caroline Shaw, Amanda Lo - Violin 2 Caleb Burhans, Nadia Sirota, Erin Wight, Jeanann Dara - Viola Clarice Jensen, Brian Snow - Cello 1 Caitlin Sullivan, Laura Metcalf - Cello 2 Logan Coale - Bass Shayna Dunkelman - Timpani Yuri Yamashita - Cymbals |
Notes: | After years of exploring, searching ourselves, and composing pieces here and there, we found ourselves with more questions than answers. When we could not find these answers in the outside world, we were bound to turn inward. And so we went back to our roots. This is something we wanted to do while we still have the chance. What cannot be explained in words to parents, we hope can be captured by these songs. We hope that this album serves as a gift from child to parent. While everything else continues to change, this love remains a constant throughout time. |
Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra | 2010, Live/DVD |
Release: | April 27, 2010 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
Notes: | To celebrate their 10th anniversary as a band - and the release of their acclaimed new album Hymn To The Immortal Wind - MONO and Temporary Residence Limted organized a once-in-a-lifetime concert in New York City. In association with the esteemed Wordless Music Series, MONO super-sized their already legendary live show with a 24-piece orchestra. Painstakingly recorded and mixed by famed producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, ISIS, Minus The Bear), Holy Ground brilliantly captures every moment of whispered calm and breathless beauty with patient clarity. Included with the album is a stunning live DVD documenting the entire 90-minute performance, featuring live orchestral versions of many of MONO's most beloved songs. For a decade fans have clamored for a MONO album that matches the catharsis of their infamous live shows, and Holy Ground overwhelmingly delivers. |
Hymn To The Immortal Wind | 2009, Full-length |
Release: | March 24, 2009 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass, Piano, Harpsichord, Glockenspiel Yoda - Guitar, Hammond B3 organ Yasunori Takada - Drums, Tympani, Cymbals, Glockenspiel Orchestra: Dave Max Crawford, Paul Von Mertens - Conductor Mark Anderson, Mellisa Bach, Alison Chesley, Wendy Cotton, Margaret Daly, Michael Duggan, Katherine Hughes, Jill Kaeding, Ellen O'Hayer, Richard Yeo - Cello Eille Bakkum - Viola Inger Petersen Carle, Carol Kalvonjian, Carmen Llop Kassinger, Jody Livo, Steve Winkler, Susan Voelz, Jeff Yang, Chie Yoshinaka - Violin Andra Kulans - Violin, Viola Vannia Phillips, John Sagos, Ben Wedge - Viola Jennifer Clippert, Mary Stolper - Flute Kent Kessler - Contrabass |
Notes: | 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. |
You Are There | 2006, Full-length |
Release: | March 15, 2006 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
Notes: | 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. |
Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 2004, Full-length |
Release: | April 14, 2004 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
Notes: | Tokyo, Japan's Mono are a peculiar group. While most bands offer up their sincerest and most genuine recordings in their infancy and spend the rest of their careers trying desperately to rediscover their youthful energy, Mono's trajectory has been quite the opposite. Their early recordings are a visceral homage to their past and present heroes - the documents of a band boasting an impressive symphony of sound in spite of their relatively small line-up. These days, they have become one of the most passionately aggressive rock bands of the last decade, executing their soaring crescendos, titanic sheets of distortion and dark melodies with the delicacy and precision of a folded paper crane. This flourish of hopeful creativity was captured by Steve Albini in the form of the eight pieces that make up their third album, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined. More lush and orchestral than previous recordings, the album couples an overall slow-melting ambience with a thunderous drive that reaches far greater heights than the band's earlier work. |
One Step More And You Die | 2002, Full-length |
Release: | October 2, 2002 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Ltd. (North America) [Reissue] Music Mine (Japan) Arena Rock Recording Co. (North America) Rykodisc (Europe) |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
Notes: | Since its original release in 2002, One Step More and You Die has become the monolithic cornerstone of MONO's discography. Every subsequent release has been inevitably (and perhaps unfairly) compared to this album, as if it were the band's high watermark, never to be dethroned. MONO brilliantly answered even the most stubborn of naysayers with 2006's transcendent You Are There. To celebrate that release, we dug into their back catalog and pulled out this masterpiece of dark dirge, repackaged with additional artwork. One Step More stared the "sophomore slump" threat square in the face and pummeled it from note one. Four years later we can confidently say that it sounds just as brutal and beautiful as it did the day it was laid to tape. |
Under The Pipal Tree | 2001, Full-length |
Release: | November 11, 2001 |
Label: | Tzadik |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
MONO / The Ocean: Transcendental | 2015, Split EP |
Release: | October 26, 2015 (UK) October 23, 2015 (Rest of the World) |
Label: | Pelagic Records |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira 'Taka' Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass, Piano Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums, Glockenspiel Guest: Alison Chesley/Helen Money - Cello Credits: Recorded and Mastered by Koichi Hara at Heartbeat in Tokyo, Aug 2015. Cellos recorded by Will Thomas at Neutral Music, Los Angeles. |
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「僕たちの新曲、"DEATH IN REVERSE" はMONOの9枚目となる次のアルバムのトレイラー的なものにした。テーマは、「生と死、そして再生」。人間の肉体は滅びても、魂は決して滅びる事はない。身は滅んでも、次の世代への種を残し、魂は新しい生と共に、永遠に語り継がれる。次のアルバムで僕たちが表現しようとしているストーリーだ。DEATH IN REVERSEでは、誇り高く人生を生き抜き、記憶と共に身体が燃え、ノイズと共に宇宙のトンネルを抜け、魂となり、新しい生命の泉へと帰化するまでの世界を音楽で表現してみた。」 |
Kanata | 2013, Single |
Release: | November 27, 2013 |
Label: | WOWOW |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass, Piano, Glockenspiel Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums, Glockenspiel, Timpani, Tubular Bell, Gong Credits: Recorded by Fred Weaver at Heartbeat Studio in Tokyo, Japan Mixed by Fred Weaver and Takaakira Goto at Apocalypse the Apocalypse in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, USA |
Notes: | MONO's theme for the WOWOW television mini-series "Kanata No Ko" |
Gone: A Collection of EPs 2000-2007 | 2007, Compilation |
Release: | September 01, 2007 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
Notes: | Collecting all of MONO's rare and out-of-print non-album tracks, Gone perfectly (and chronologically) displays their astounding growth, from the modest opening notes of "Finlandia" to the scorched finale of "Little Boy (1945-Future)." These tracks are culled from a series of highly sought-after releases, including the Japanese-only debut Hey, You. EP, their split LP with Pelican, the Cameron Crowe-commissioned Memorie dal Futuro vinyl 10", and The Phoenix Tree, their out-of-print EP for the storied Travels In Constants series. All tracks have been beautifully remastered from their original master tapes. |
The Phoenix Tree | 2007, EP |
Release: | April 18, 2007 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
The Sky Remains The Same As Ever | 2007, DVD |
Release: | March 28, 2007 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
Notes: | The Sky Remains The Same As Ever is a nearly two-hour document of the recording sessions for You Are There, and the several worldwide tours that followed its release. In addition to the dozen live songs that are documented in all their sweaty fury, the film captures the decidedly less glamorous aspects of being an underground rock band from a foreign country, expressing sentiments through body language out of necessity, and driving...lots and lots of driving. Most effectively, the film displays the friendships that have made MONO's journeys enjoyable, and the fanatical dedication that has made it all possible. |
MONO & World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain | 2006, Collaborative Full-length |
Release: | September 12, 2006 |
Label: | Human Highway Records Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums World's End Girlfriend Katsuhiko Maeda - Guitar, Piano, Violin, Mixing Other Contributors Seigen Tokuzawa - Cello Kazumasa Hashimoto - Piano Kaoru Hagiwara - Viola Mikko Ise, Mio Okamura - Violin Mujika Easel - Chorus Vocals Takafumi Ishikawa - Saxophone John Golden - Mastering Chie Fatsumi - Photography Chieko Akasaka - Artwork, Design Jeremy DeVine - Artwork, Design Seiji Ueki, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Gondo Tomohiko, Yuuki Mizutani - Recording |
Pelican / MONO | 2006, Split |
Release: | November 1, 2006 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums Pelican: Trevor de Brauw - Guitar Bryan Herweg - Bass Larry Herweg - Drums Laurent Schroeder-Lebec - Guitar |
Memorie Dal Futuro | 2006, EP |
Release: | November 1, 2006 |
Label: | N/A |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
New York Soundtracks | 2004, EP |
Release: | February 14, 2004 |
Label: | Temporary Residence Limited |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
Notes: | New York Soundtracks is a remix album of One Step More and You Die by the Japanese band Mono. It was released as a CD in 2004 and in 2009 as part of the special deluxe double LP of 2003 album One Step More and You Die. |
Hey, You | 2000, EP |
Release: | September 9, 2000 |
Label: | Forty-4 |
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Credits: | MONO: Takaakira "Taka" Goto - Guitar Tamaki - Bass Yoda - Guitar Yasunori Takada - Drums |
2016年に映画監督 宮崎光代さんとMONOがコラボレーションした短編映画「Where We Begin」が、カルフォルニアの国際的なフィルムフェスティバルIdyllwild International Festivalにて、名誉あるベストスコア賞「Marshall Hawkins Best Musical Score」を受賞した。
他にも、この作品は他国のフィルムフェスティバルにて、現在他にも7つの賞をも受賞している。
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