Exit in Darkness
by MONO & A.A.Williams
mafsweep
mafsweep
Achingly beautiful. I'd love to hear a full album like this.
Łabandzi Śpiew
Łabandzi Śpiew
"Two tracks on the album consists of both sensual and at the same time melancholic vocals by Williams and quite peaceful version of the Japanese' music. The latter took me by surprise" ENGLISH: labandzi.blogspot.com/2020/02/mono-aa-williams-exit-in-darkness-2019_4.html
Favorite track: Exit in Darkness.
Andrew Curd
Andrew Curd
Previously I found Mono a bit Mono dimensional, these lyrical notes add another dimension to a great band.
Richard Vanden Bout
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Ross
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Exit in Darkness, the new collaboration EP from MONO & A.A.Williams. Out now via Pelagic Records!
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Firmly placed as both progenitor and progressor within their field, MONO is like no other artist – visceral, engrossing and showing no signs of decay after two decades spent creating waves of beautiful and expansive rock music. Many an artist lays claim to setting the template – or many have this claim placed upon them – but this Japanese artist has long-since simply set their own template. Listening to MONO is like entering another world, where the majesty of the noise embraces you and the delicacy of the space around it breathes warmly in your ear.
A.A. Williams came from nowhere. An EP arrived in January 2019, and a debut show at the prestigious Roadburn Festival three months later confirmed what this first taste of music had suggested: this is a special artist. The woman in black: one arm aloft after the delicate yet decisive strum of a chord, a stillness in the room focused on the graceful soaring of a unique voice. To arrive so fully formed is a feat in itself; to take the audience’s breath away with such immediacy is something else entirely.
As soon as MONO’s Takaakira ‘Taka’ Goto heard the music of A.A. Williams, an unwavering resonance was triggered. For A.A. Williams, the appreciation was emphatically mutual. A musical connection developed into a collaboration; introductions were made, ideas exchanged. At the end of MONO’s 2019 summer tour, these ideas were committed to tape in London and the result is ‘Exit in Darkness’ – a mesmeric coming together of two artists from opposite ends of the globe whose creative approach could not have melded more eloquently.
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Firmly placed as both progenitor and progressor within their field, MONO is like no other artist – visceral, engrossing and showing no signs of decay after two decades spent creating waves of beautiful and expansive rock music. Many an artist lays claim to setting the template – or many have this claim placed upon them – but this Japanese artist has long-since simply set their own template. Listening to MONO is like entering another world, where the majesty of the noise embraces you and the delicacy of the space around it breathes warmly in your ear.
A.A. Williams came from nowhere. An EP arrived in January 2019, and a debut show at the prestigious Roadburn Festival three months later confirmed what this first taste of music had suggested: this is a special artist. The woman in black: one arm aloft after the delicate yet decisive strum of a chord, a stillness in the room focused on the graceful soaring of a unique voice. To arrive so fully formed is a feat in itself; to take the audience’s breath away with such immediacy is something else entirely.
As soon as MONO’s Takaakira ‘Taka’ Goto heard the music of A.A. Williams, an unwavering resonance was triggered. For A.A. Williams, the appreciation was emphatically mutual. A musical connection developed into a collaboration; introductions were made, ideas exchanged. At the end of MONO’s 2019 summer tour, these ideas were committed to tape in London and the result is ‘Exit in Darkness’ – a mesmeric coming together of two artists from opposite ends of the globe whose creative approach could not have melded more eloquently.
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released December 13, 2019
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MONO 東京都, Japan
Official online store of Japanese Instrumental Rock band MONO.
Labels: Temporary Residence Ltd. (North America) and Pelagic Records (Europe).
shows
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Aug 19Compton Martin, UK
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Feb 10Oslo, Norway
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Feb 11Stockholm, Sweden
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Feb 12Copenhagen, Denmark
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Feb 13Hamburg, Germany
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Feb 14Berlin, Germany
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Feb 15Cologne, Germany
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Feb 16Zürich, Switzerland
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Feb 17Bulle, Switzerland
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Feb 18Toulouse, France
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Feb 19Biarritz, France
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Feb 21Porto, Portugal
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Feb 22Lisbon, Portugal
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Feb 23Seville, Spain
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Feb 24Murcia, Spain
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Feb 25Madrid, Spain
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Feb 26Barcelona, Spain
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Feb 28Besançon, France
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Mar 01Paris, France
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Mar 02Antwerp, Belgium
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Mar 03Lille, France
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Mar 04London, UK
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Mar 05London, UK
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Mar 08Glasgow, UK
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Mar 09Leeds, UK
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Nov 2019
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