Mono (Japanese band)
Mono is a Japanese post-rock band that was founded in 2000 in Tokyo.
History
Guitarist Takaakira Goto began in 1999 in order to write songs for their implementation, he sought musicians, which he found with Tamaki, Yasunori Takada and Yoda. Yoda was previously friends with Goto, but did not know that Yoda was playing guitar. Published After a debut EP on the small Japanese label Forty- four mono 2001, her debut album, Under the Pipal Tree in the New Japan series by John Zorn's label Tzadik Records. In 2003, One Step More and You Die and the following year the remix album New York soundtrack.
The two studio albums, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag flood Registered and the Sun Shined and You Are There were recorded with Steve Albini, the band would continue to work. You Are There has so far been most positively received by critics and reached a Metascore of 81 was released in 2007 with Gone is a collection of pieces of older, partially out of print EPs and split singles.
Mono managed to increase over the years, both the sales of their recordings as well as the number of visitors to their concerts continuously.
Style
Mono's music is exclusively instrumental. Initially, the band was heavily influenced by his own account of Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, but was also associated with Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor associated. Working as a typical representative of the post-rock mono with sound dynamics by converting slowly building guitar figures in distorted passages, but can also always room for instruments such as cello or piano.
Critics accuse the band, pick up patterns and stereotypes and, again, hardly able to stand out from other bands of the genre. USP is Monos refer to Japanese culture, for example, to reflected in the inclusion of Japanese myths and legends. Thus, several pieces were on Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag flood Registered and the Sun Shined inspired by the fate of Sadako Sasaki, who believed due to an old Japanese legend, to be able to can be met by the gods by folding a thousand paper cranes a wish.
Discography
Albums
- Under the Pipal Tree (2001)
- One Step More and You Die (2003)
- Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag flood Registered and the Sun Shined (2004)
- You Are There (2006)
- Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009)
- For My Parents ( 2012)
Singles and EPs
- Hey, You ( 2000)
- Memorie dal Futuro (2006)
- The Phoenix Tree (2007)
- Holy Ground: NYC Live With The Wordless Music Orchestra ( DVD CD or DVD 3 LP ) (2010 )
Other
- New York Soundtracks ( remixes by One Step More and You Die) (2004)
- Gone: A Collection of EPs 2000-2007 (2007)