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Europas hoher Norden durch die Augen eines Chinesen und die Ohren von Japanern. «Legend: A Journey Through Iceland» heisst das 12-minütige Video einer Reise durch die isländische Mitternachtssonne, das die japanische Post-Rock-Band Mono auf dem Youtube-Kanal von Pitchfork veröffentlicht hat. Das Bildmaterial stammt vom auf Naturaufnahmen spezialisierten chinesischen Photographen und Filmemacher Henry Jun Wah Lee . Musikalische Unterstützung erhalten Mono vom Holy Ground Orchestra, von welchem sie auch schon in der Vergangenheit im Studio sowie auf Tour begleitet wurden. Wer gerade unter Fernweh leidet, sollte unten besser nicht auf [...]

Japanese post-rock gods Mono are releasing a new record in September, and they just dropped the video for their first single, "Legend." It's a quick two-minute beach-pop track with steel drums a twelve-minute symphonic swell through the mountains of Iceland. Watch the video here: Click here to view the embedded video. Mono's record, For My Parents , comes out September 4th via Temporary Residence LTD . Mono is also coming to Glasslands on September 15th! Tickets are [...]
Hace unas semanas Mono nos presento un increible track titulado " Dream Odyssey ", el cual basicamente es el primer adelanto de lo que sera su nuevo album de larga duracion de nombre "For My Parents" y ahora, ya han decidido mostrarnos una parte visual de este material, con motivo de la aparicion del video perteneciente a "Legend". Este magistral track es el momento con el que arranca este nuevo album de Mono , asi que para la parte visual han reclutado a Henry Jun Wah Lee, para mostrar unos paisajes de Islandia que sin [...]

LE GUESS WHO? ANNOUNCES INITIAL FESTIVAL LINEUP FOR 2012 Nov. 29 - Dec. 2 - Utrecht, Holland F*** BUTTONS, DIRTY THREE, GRIMES, DESTROYER, TIM HECKER DEERHOOF, MONO,JULIANNA BARWICK, COLIN STETSON & MANY MORE CONFIRMED! TICKETS FOR ALL 4 DAYS ON SALE NOW Listen to the Le Guess Who? Playlist at Spotify Le Guess Who? has announced the initial lineup for their 6th annual music festival taking place November 29th - December 2nd in Utrecht, a city 30 minutes outside of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Le Guess [...]

Frank Yang The arc around The xx's 2009 debut xx was a narratively perfect one, rich with mystery, sex, and drama as the London trio vaulted from obscurity to Mercury and, most prestigiously, a place on my year-end list . And perhaps most crucially for a perfect story, they ended. Or at least went away for a while. Real life differs from stories, however, in that it generally doesn't let you just ride off into the sunset, and so after some deserved downtime [...]

by Andrew Sacher Mono with Wordless Orchestra in 2009 ( more by Teppel ) Japanese post rockers Mono will release their new album, For My Parents , on September 4 via Temporary Residence LTD. They recorded the album with the Wordless Music Orchestra who backed them for their 2010 live album, Holy Ground . Appropriately, the single which you can stream below, "Dream Odyssey," reaches its heights with soaring orchestral [...]

Ryan McGinley Though Bat For Lashes were certainly due to release a new record this year - 20092s Two Suns feels like it came out forever ago - it was certainly a relief when Natasha Khan officially announced last month that her third album, entitled The Haunted Man , would indeed be coming out this Fall. But cognizant of the fact that simply knowing it exists will only keep fans happy for so long, some more specifics about the record have been released. [...]

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 Today's Quick Mention: In case you somehow missed it, we're giving away a pair of tickets to see Conveyor play the Mohawk this Thursday with Holiday and Cigarettes After Sex. Sign up! It'll only take a second, and you may get a free show out of it. Mono have long been at the top of my favorite instrumental act list, but now I think I'm ready to slide them over to the cluster of bands that I [...]
A je to tu! Mono uveřejnili první skladbu z připravovaného alba For My Parents pojmenovanou Dream Odyssey na soundcloud.com. Musím říct, že je to pecka, která mě zasáhla hned při prvním poslechu rovnou do srdce. Název skladbě plně odpovídá. Je to 8 minutová snová odysea plná melancholie a posmutnění, která se ale v závěru vzedme na vlně vzdoru a naděje. Nevím jak vy, ale já jsem z této skladby opravdu nadšený. A to nejen kvůli tomu, že Mono mám fakt rád a obdivuji jejich tvorbu. Ale baví mě i jejich [...]

Take a break from the sweltering summer and let the calming waves of "Dream Odyssey" wash over you. The new track is taken from Mono's record For My Parents . The new album will follow-up to 20092s Hymn to the Immortal Wind which became a mainstay in playlists that have helped lull me to peaceful sleep. I'm definitely excited to see what they have in store for us on this one For My Parents will see release 9/4 via [...]

Widescreen post rock from Mono 's new record 'For My Parents' out via Temporary Residence on September 4. 'Dream Odyssey' is a cinematic epic which delicately switches instrumentation for maximum effect. Mark your diary folks. Download audio file (Mono-Dream-Odyssey.mp3) Visit Mono online @ Bandcamp @ Facebook .
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Justamente ayer por la tarde me encontraba escuchando "Burial At Sea" de Mono, y pensaba que probablemente su nuevo album de estudio este compuesto por maravillosas piezas como esa que, debo confesar, esta incluida dentro de mi lista de canciones favoritas de los ultimos 10 años. Pero bueno, hoy me acabo de encontrar con la novedad de que ya se puede escuchar un primer adelanto de su nueva produccion titulada "For My Parents", la cual estara siendo editada de manera oficial a traves de Temporary Residence LTD el 4 de Septiembre. "Dream Odyssey" es el titulo de [...]

Nedlouho po traileru na chystanou novinku japonské post-rockové formace MONO tu máme další zprávy. Nové album, které má vyjít 4. září tohoto roku u Temporary Residence , ponese název For My Parents . K tomu zveřejnili i přebal desky vyvedený jako černobílá low-key fotografie. Velmi čisté provedení, kde vynikne název kapely i název alba a divák má díky nízkému kontrastu a světlosti fotografie potřebu více zkoumat, co je na fotografii.

Frank Yang It seems a bit perverse to use the phrase, "comfort food" with respect to veteran Scottish post-rock giants Mogwai , but there's real truth in it. There's no question that they've grown as musicians and songwriters over their seven studio albums, but its been a gradual, evolutionary pace that's not done much to shock or shake loose (m)any of their fans along the way. Their touring regimen has also been similarly predictable, with typically two North American tours per album and each of those shows being rather understated from a visual point of [...]
Tres años después de la salida de su último álbum, Mono está listo para regresar a la escena con un álbum doble , For My Parents , el cual saldrá a la venta el próximo 4 de septiembre a través de Temporary Residence LTD., disquera con la que han editado sus más recientes producciones. En esta ocasión, la banda fue apoyada por la Wordless Music Orchestra , con la que trabajaron en la serie de conciertos con los que celebraron su décimo aniversario y que posteriormente se inmortalizarían en [...]

PREEMINENT JAPANESE QUARTET DROPPING MOST REALIZED EFFORT TO DATE ON SEPTEMBER 4 MONO, the Japanese instrumental rock quartet who have established themselves as "one of the most distinctive bands of the 21st century"*, have announced their new album, For My Parents, will be issued by Temporary Residence Ltd. on September 4, 2012. There is no doubting a MONO song when you hear it - cinemascopic song structures, engrossing lyrical melodies, sublimely transcendent execution - and no denying their uncanny ability to feel perfectly at home in both pristine symphony halls and dirty rock clubs. For My Parents obliterates [...]
Following up their lauded 2009 release Hymn to the Immortal Wind , Mono have emerged to preview their sixth studio album. ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ mono-reveal-teaser-video-for-t heir-sixth-studio-al/66372/

To je skvělá zpráva. Japonští klasici post-rocku MONO vydají na podzim již šestou studiovou nahrávku. Půjde rovnou o dvojalbum, které vydají u labelu Temporary Residence , stejně jako poslední album z roku 2009 pojmenované Hymn to the Immortal Wind . Jako ochutnávku si pro nás zatím připravili trailer na budoucí album. Jedná se o záběry z živého nahrávání spolu se synfonickým orchestrem a k tomu různé záběry mimo natáčení. Úryvky z hudby jsou klasické MONO motivy, pomalé, zadumané plochy piana, kytar a smyčců. Na jejich bandcamp webu [...]