1. Karelia (Opus 2)
2. The Kidnapper Bell
3. Jackie Says
4. Op Beach
5. Holy
6. Error #9
7. L'America
8. Human Highway

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.

1. Death In Rebirth
2. Stellar
3. Requiem For Hell
4. Ely's Heartbeat
5. The Last Scene

「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。」

1. The Land Between Tides / Glory
2. Kanata
3. Cyclone
4. Elysian Castle
5. Where We Begin
6. The Last Dawn

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！

1. Recoil, Ignite
2. Surrender
3. The Hand that Holds the Truth
4. The Last Rays

1. Legend
2. Nostalgia
3. Dream Odyssey
4. Unseen Harbor
5. A Quiet Place (Together We Go)

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.

1. Ashes in the Snow
2. Burial At Sea
3. Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn
4. Are You There?
5. 2 Candles, 1 Wish
6. Where Am I
7. Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)
8. Follow the Map
9. Halcyon (Beautiful Days)
10. Everlasting Light

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.

1. Ashes in the Snow
2. Burial at Sea
3. Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn
4. Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)
5. Follow the Map
6. The Battle to Heaven
7. Everlasting Light

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.

1. The Flames Beyond the Cold Mountain
2. A Heart Has Asked for the Pleasure
3. Yearning
4. Are You There?
5. The Remains of the Day
6. Moonlight

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.

1. 16.12
2. Mere Your Pathetique Light
3. Halcyon (Beautiful Days)
4. 2 Candles, 1 Wish
5. Ode
6. The Sky Remains the Same as Ever
7. Lost Snow
8. A Thousand Paper Cranes

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.

1. Where Am I
2. Com(?)
3. Sabbath
4. Mopish Morning, Halation Wiper
5. A Speeding Car
6. Loco Tracks
7. Halo
8. Giant Me on the Other Side

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.

1. Karelia (Opus 2)
2. The Kidnapper Bell
3. Jackie Says
4. Op Beach
5. Holy
6. Error #9
7. L'America
8. Human Highway