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soundscape · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject:

Soundscape Records is proud to presents a one night only performance by Japanese instrumental rock band, MONO.

Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive "Hymn To The Immortal Wind".

After touring almost non-stop for five years, the band hibernated for over a year to focus solely on writing Hymn. The result is their most thoughtful and eclectic album to date. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. 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.

Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor’s opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments.

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.

For their upcoming show in Kuala Lumpur, the band will be accompanied by a string section (two violinists and two cellists).

The event will be held at Pentas 2, KL Performing Arts Centre on 30th Jan 2010.

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Ticket price:

RM90 (Pre-sale) - Before 28th January.
RM110 (At the door)
*Ticket price inclusive of RM3 handling fee.

Tickets will be on sale from 4th Jan 2010 onwards, at the following outlets.

KLPAC Box office (Tel: 603-4047 9000)
Sentul Park, Jalan Strachan off Jalan Ipoh, 51100 Kuala Lumpur

The Actors Studio @ Lot 10 Box office (Tel: 603-2142 2009 / 2143 2009)
Roof Top Lot 10 Shopping Centre, Level 8A, 50 Jalan Sultan Ismail, 50250 Kuala Lumpur

Axcess Head Office
1st Floor, Block A, Lot 116 Jalan Semangat, 46200 Petaling Jaya.

Axcess Outlets:

1-Utama Shopping Complex
Lot B16, Basement Floor (B1), New Wing, 1-Utama Shopping Centre, 47800 P.Jaya, Selangor.

Alamanda Putrajaya Shopping Centre
KP0401, North Carpark P4, Mezzanine Floor, Alamanda Putrajaya Shopping Centre, Jalan Alamanda, Precinct 1, 62000 Putrajaya.

For advance or online bookings, kindly contact ticketing@soundscape-records.com or 016 3369089.

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Current line-up:

Takaakira Goto (Guitar)
Yoda (Guitar)
Tamaki Kunishi (Bass, Piano, Glockenspiel)
Yasunori Takada (Drum, Glockenspiel, Synthesizer)

To find out more about Mono and listen to their sample tracks, please visit the below sites.

http://www.myspace.com/monojp

http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/pages/Mono-Japan/12609779342?ref=ts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28Japanese_band%29

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Supporting act:

DEEPSET

Deepset, a quartet from Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, discovered the trial of composition that has been appropriated by indierock after being refined over the centuries by harmonic and sonic experimentation, the birth was late 2002, the band pushed the enthuse to produce instrumental piece which as the band believe that music is nothing without inspiration that has an influence.

http://www.myspace.com/deepbeep