Mono

Mono – My Story, The Buraku Story (An Original Soundtrack) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:19 minutes | 726 MB | Genre: Ambient, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Temporary Residence Ltd.

Enduring Japanese post-rock band MONO ditch the quiet-loud histrionics on their debut feature-length soundtrack, focusing on delicate ambient arrangements and airy cinematic bliss.
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MONO – Heaven Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 19:50 minutes | 217 MB | Genre: Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pelagic Records

Mono are back with the second volume of their annual Christmas EP series ‘Heaven’ – Heaven Vol. 2. The latter is available now exclusively from Bandcamp. It was recorded by Takaakira ‘Taka’ Goto at Studio Forty-4 (drums recorded by James Brown at The Union, New York). Mixed and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri and Jeremy deVine at Black Knoll Studio in October, 2023.

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MONO – Heaven Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 20:15 minutes | 218 MB | Genre: Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pelagic Records

MONO have long drawn equal inspiration from the light and dark of life, spawning more than two decades of musical turbulence and melodic transcendence. Heaven Vol. 1 marks the beginning of a new annual tradition from MONO: A new EP released on Christmas Day each year, leaning into the light at precisely the time when we need it the most – surrounded by loved ones and hopeful for what the turn of the calendar may bring us.

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Mono – Scarlet Holliday (EP) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 15:08 minutes | 285 MB | Genre: Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pelagic Records

After COVID-19 first swept the world in 2020, MONO felt compelled to make a special little gift for the Christmas holiday. The accompanying message was simple: “Wishing everyone good health, happiness, and good cheer in the new year.” Originally made at home in isolation, this digital-only release consisted of two new MONO songs: “Scarlet Holliday” and “First Winter.” Now, to commemorate the 2021 holiday season, MONO has reworked and expanded Scarlet Holliday into a very special 3-song EP (now including the brand new song, “Epilogue”). Recorded at home and at Electrical Audio by longtime collaborator, Steve Albini, newly mixed by John McEntire and mastered by Bob Weston, Scarlet Holliday is finally being released into the world on limited-edition 10” vinyl, as well as all digital formats. In their unflappable determination to shine light into the darkness, MONO explains: “These songs were written with the idea of new hope for the new year since this time has become unforeseeably dark for many in the world.
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Mono – Pilgrimage of the Soul (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:21 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pelagic Records

Pilgrimage of the Soul is the 11th studio album in the 22-year career of Japanese experimental rock legends, MONO. Recorded and mixed – cautiously, anxiously, yet optimistically – during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020, Pilgrimage of the Soul is aptly named as it not only represents the peaks and valleys where MONO are now as they enter their third decade, but also charts their long, steady journey to this time and place. Continuing the subtle but profound creative progression in the MONO canon that began with Nowhere Now Here (2019), Pilgrimage of the Soul is the most dynamic MONO album to date (and that’s saying a lot). But where MONO’s foundation was built on the well-established interplay of whisper quiet and devastatingly loud, Pilgrimage of the Soul crafts its magic with mesmerizing new electronic instrumentation and textures, and – perhaps most notably – faster tempos that are clearly influenced by disco and techno. It all galvanizes as the most unexpected MONO album to date – replete with surprises and as awash in splendor as anything this band has ever done.

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Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind (Anniversary Edition) (2009/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:52 minutes | 724 MB | Genre: Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Temporary Residence Ltd.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of MONO – and the 10th anniversary of their most iconic album – Temporary Residence Ltd. proudly presents Hymn to the Immortal Wind – Anniversary Edition. Beautifully remastered from the original analog master tapes by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service, this super deluxe reissue sounds, looks, and feels more pure and powerful than ever before.

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Mono – Beyond the Past – Live in London with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:50:14 minutes | 2,15 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pelagic Records

Exit in Darkness (Live with the Platinum Anniversary OFor two decades, MONO have defined and refined a kind of orchestral rock that is as emotional as it is experimental. Their 10 studio albums over those 20 years have established MONO as what Pitchfork described as “one of the most distinctive bands of the 21st Century.” Meanwhile, their live concerts are typically more subdued in instrumentation – and more supercharged in volume and voltage. Rarely is there the opportunity to combine those two experiences. In their 20-year history as a band, MONO have presented no more than a half-dozen live concerts featuring the support of an orchestra. Such events are not only unusual – they are also unforgettable.

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