Artist:

MONO & world’s end girlfriend

Title: Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain

Catalog #

TRR108

Format:

CD (vinyl available in October!)

Release Date:

September 12, 2006

Label:

Temporary Residence Ltd.

UPC:

CD:

NO EXPORT TO JAPAN, KOREA, BRAZIL

The players:

Katsuhiko Maeda

Takaakira "Taka" Goto

Yasunori Takada

Tamaki

Yoda

Just before recording their epic disasterpiece You Are There,

MONO began collaborating with fellow Tokyo

native and modern electronic composer

world’s end girlfriend. The result is a five-part sojourn of

neoclassical grace and luminescence that defies lazy categorization. As dark as the bottom of the ocean, and

nearly as otherworldly, Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain finds MONO inhabiting an illuminated world

previously only hinted at in their most orchestral compositions.

Recorded in multiple studios in Japan last year, Palmless Prayer joins MONO’s increasing obsession with

classical music with world’s end girlfriend’s mastery of subtle dynamic shifts. Forgoing their tendency to erupt

into hellish bursts of speaker-destroying noise, MONO instead exhibits remarkable restraint, stretching song

lengths past the 15-minute mark and turning barely-there crescendoes into earth-shaking events.

Less an epiphany and more a reminder of the beauty that already exists all around us, Palmless Prayer is a

miniature panoramic view of the sea on an eerily still day, the current swaying at an impossibly lazy pace and

the sound of a thousand tiny waves crashing all at once.

Track Listing:

1.

Part One

2.

Part Two

3.

Part Three

4.

Part Four

5.

Part Five

Also Available:

TRR98 MONO You Are There CD/2xLP – UPC:

656605309828

TRR74 MONO New York Soundtracks LP – UPC:

656605307411

TRR73 MONO One Step More and You Die CD – UPC:

656605307329

TRR68 MONO Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky... CD/2xLP – UPC:

656605306827

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