Before The Past • Live From Electrical Audio

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Kirk Gauthier An absolutely brilliant live document of a band yet to hit their prime. Steve Albini captures MONO at their most visceral, breathing new life into songs that were 20 years old at the time the stepped into Electrical Audio. Fantastic stuff. Favorite track: Com(?) (Live From Electrical Audio).

Keegan Lewis this is beyond amazing sounding. so viscerally and blissfully immersive! Favorite track: Com(?) (Live From Electrical Audio).

rDr4g0n This feels very authentically like their live shows. Loud, crushing, beautiful; a nearly religious experience.

Best experienced at very high volumes.

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	1.	Com(?) (Live From Electrical Audio) 16:11
	2.	L’America (Live From Electrical Audio) 04:54
	3.	Halo (Live From Electrical Audio) 08:22

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MONO formed in Tokyo, Japan in the closing winter weeks of December, 1999. They played their first live shows at the top of the new millennium, and released their first album, Under The Pipal Tree, in 2001. Recorded live in one day on a razor-thin budget, Pipal Tree was an earnest introduction to the curious magic of a band that would eventually become synonymous with monstrously dynamic, contemporary classical rock music.

To commemorate those austere beginnings – and celebrate their remarkable longevity – MONO revisit three of their earliest songs, and retrofit them with speaker-destroying upgrades. Anchored by the towering 16-minute noise opus, “Com(?)”, Before The Past • Live From Electrical Audio shows the evolution of MONO’s execution, stripping away the strings and layers of guitar overdubs to show just how massive this band can be at their most instrumentally austere.

Newly recorded in one day in 2019 with longtime collaborator, Steve Albini – and mixed by Albini with Temporary Residence founder, Jeremy deVine – Before The Past is as much a declaration of the present as it is a document of the past. These songs, which are now 20 years old, feel more powerful and profound than ever – a testament to MONO’s enduring dedication to their craft, and their dogged exploration of maximum minimalism.

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released November 8, 2019

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MONO 東京都, Japan

Official Bandcamp page of Japanese instrumental rock band MONO.

Signed to Temporary Residence Ltd. (North America), Pelagic Records (Europe) and New Noise (China).

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Oct 22

Le Trianon

Paris, France
Oct 23

Vooruit

Ghent, Belgium
Oct 24

Metropol

Berlin, Germany
Oct 26

Hackney Church (St John at Hackney)

London, UK
Oct 27

TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

Utrecht, Netherlands
Oct 28

VEGA

Copenhagen, Denmark
Oct 29

Göta Lejon

Stockholm, Sweden
Oct 31

House of Culture

Helsinki, Finland
Nov 20

Spotify O-EAST

Tokyo, Japan
Nov 22

Yogibo HOLY MOUNTAIN

Osaka, Japan

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