Artist:
MONO & world’s end girlfriend
Title: Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
Catalog #
TRR108
Format:
2xLP
Release Date:
October 10, 2006
Label:
Temporary Residence Ltd.
UPC:
LP:
The players:
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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