Mono Tour Dates March 2010

Following the release of 2009's critically-acclaimed Hmyn Of The Immortal Wind album, instrumental Japanese post-rock legends Mono are set to return to the UK for the following dates.

Tour Dates March 2010
Wed 17/03/2010 - Sco Glasgow Oran Mor
Mon 15/03/2010 - Uk - London The Scala
Tue 16/03/2010 Uk Birmingham - The Asylum
Thu 18/03/2010 Uk Leeds - Brudenell Social Club

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.