Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO returned with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive “Hymn To The Immortal Wind.” 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. 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 – save for perhaps their uncanny ability to sound every bit like a plane crashing into a Beethoven concert. The vinyl has been pressed onto limited-edition Sunset Red and Autumn Grass colored vinyl (editions of 1,000)!
Limited Edition Colored Vinyl: Sunset Red (Edition of 1,000)
Limited Edition Colored Vinyl: Autumn Grass (Edition of 1,000)
Tracklist:
- Ashes in the Snow
- Burial at Sea
- Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn
- Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)
- Follow the Map
- The Battle to Heaven
- Everlasting Light
MONO:
Takaakira “Taka” Goto / Guitar
Tamaki / Bass, Piano, Harpsichord, Glockenspiel
Yoda / Guitar, Hammond B3 organ
Yasunori Takada / Drums, Tympani, Cymbals, Glockenspiel
Orchestra:
Dave Max Crawford, Paul Von Mertens / Conductor
Mark Anderson, Mellisa Bach, Alison Chesley, Wendy Cotton, Margaret Daly, Michael Duggan, Katherine Hughes, Jill Kaeding, Ellen O’Hayer, Richard Yeo / Cello
Eille Bakkum / Viola
Inger Petersen Carle, Carol Kalvonjian, Carmen Llop Kassinger, Jody Livo, Steve Winkler, Susan Voelz, Jeff Yang, Chie Yoshinaka / Violin
Andra Kulans / Violin, Viola
Vannia Phillips, John Sagos, Ben Wedge / Viola
Jennifer Clippert, Mary Stolper / Flute
Kent Kessler / Contrabass