MONO in 4K - FULL SHOW - TORONTO, DANFORTH MUSIC HALL - MARCH 21 2025

Описание: Official Website: https://www.monoofjapan.com/
Official YouTube channel:    / monoofjapan  
Tour: LES CHANTS DE L'AURORE 2025 (Special Guest of ALCEST from France)
Indoor Venue: DANFORTH MUSIC HALL, TORONTO (show capacity 950)
Other supporting act: Kælan Mikla (from Iceland)

SETLIST:
00:00 1.Run On
09:40 2.We All Shine On
18:15 3.Hear the Wind Sing
26:14 4.Ashes in the Snow
39:00 5.Time Goes By

BAND MEMBERS:
◍ Takaakira 'Taka' Goto (lead guitar)
◍ Tamaki Kunishi (bass, piano)
◍ Hideki 'Yoda' Suematsu (rhythm guitar)
◍ Dahm Majuri Cipolla (drums)

BIOGRAPHY (excerpts courtesy of Thom Jurek at allmusic.com https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mono-...
Mono is an experimental Japanese rock outfit. Since 1999 they've offered a dynamic, atmospheric, shapeshifting, classically tinged sound that lends itself to long compositions, drama, improvisation, and tension. 2004's Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined bridged detuned raw power to lush, delicate beauty. 2006's Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain and 2012's For My Parents (in collaboration with producer World's End Girlfriend) employed strings, reeds, and a vocal chorus. In 2014 they simultaneously issued Rays of Darkness and Last Dawn. Drummer Yasunori Takada left after 2016's Requiem for Hell, replaced by Dahm Majuri Cipolla. Mono released Nowhere Now Here in 2019 and Pilgrimage of the Soul in 2021. The following year, they wrote the soundtrack to the documentary film My Story, The Baraku Story and surprise released Heaven, Vol. 1 on Christmas Day. In 2024 they issued Oath, recorded in Chicago with engineer Steve Albini; he died just weeks before its release.

The foursome, bassist Tamaki (the lone female in the group), drummer Yasunori Takada, and guitarists Takaakira "Taka" Goto and Yoda, released their first full-length record, Under the Pipal Tree, in 2001 on John Zorn's Tzadik label. After switching to Arena Rock Recording Company in 2003, Mono issued One Step More and You Die; a remix version came out the following year as New York Soundtracks. That same year, their fourth album, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined, recorded in Chicago with producer Steve Albini, was released on Temporary Residence. Albini performed the same duties on their April 2006 record You Are There, and in September the band issued Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain, a mix of classical and rock that also featured a collaboration with World's End Girlfriend, among others. Their fascination with classical arrangements, strings, and atmospheres became an integral part of their sound. In 2006 they recorded You Are There, which included cellos on one part of the album and a string section on another while retaining the dynamic- and tension-building sound that had become the band's trademark, weaving beauty and chaos together to form an inseparable whole. On 2009's Hymn to the Immortal Wind, the band played live with a 25-piece chamber orchestra that featured woodwinds, reeds, and strings -- and added a Hammond B-3 in spots to extend the orchestral dynamic. This culminated in 2010's Holy Ground: NYC Live with Mono accompanied by the Wordless Music Orchestra, another large chamber ensemble featuring everything from harp and strings to winds and piano. For 2012's For My Parents, they employed a smaller chamber group conducted by Jeff Milarsky and dubbed the Holy Ground Orchestra, comprising two violins, two cellos, viola, upright bass, timpani, and cymbals.

After a global tour and a break, Mono returned to the studio in 2013 and recorded two albums simultaneously as parts of a whole. The Last Dawn was lighter, briefer, and more melodic; once again, it placed the band in sonic juxtaposition with strings. The second part, Rays of Darkness, didn't include strings for the first time since 2003. It was far blacker and heavier, and featured a guest vocal appearance by Tetsuya Fukagawa of Envy. Both albums were released by Temporary Residence in October of 2014. The following year, Mono signed with Pelagic (the label of German metal act the Ocean). Both bands collaborated on a split album called Transcendental. The recording prefaced a joint European tour. Each band contributed a single extended track. Mono's "Death in Reverse" served to complement the Ocean's "The Quiet Observer" in that both cuts explored themes of life, death, and rebirth/regeneration, as well as the in-between "bardo" states. The album was released at the end of October by Pelagic. In July 2016, Mono released the 18-minute "Ely's Heartbeat" on the Internet as the pre-release single from the full-length Requiem for Hell, issued by Temporary Residence that October.

On Oath, their 12th long-player, engineered by Steve Albini with an orchestra and chamber brass, they explored the notion of time and how to make the most of what remains to us.