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The quiet strength of the Japanese Mono. Scala - London - 15/03/2010

Going to see the concerts on Monday always requires a huge physical and mental exercise, weekends away, and it feels all over 'exhausted. It was a bit 'I was curious to go see the Mono and what better occasion than a concert at London's Scala. In opening the Swede John Alexander Ericson. On stage with the guitar does not leave a 'footprint too impressive. And then appear to them the world. On both sides of the stage, sat down with their guitars Takaakira Goto and Yoda, Yasunori Takada behind them on drums and gongs with a stately and her central: Tamaki Kunish the Japanese goddess of the bass (which will compete tonight 'also on keyboards for a couple of occasions). Image and music with a strong impact. Gia the first song "Ashes in the snow" come to mind Godspeed You! Black Emperor of the neo prog rock that were the craftsmen in the early 2000 and that, if strange, they had derived their name from a Japanese movie of the 70s. The game music and 'equal, and' always to the plan of the guitars, which is bound up with a rhythm section and Cresent galloping towards advancing the musical thunder and then merge into chaos. A musical imagination that of Mono which leads us away to the nature of their beloved Japan made streams, Zen gardens, cherry blossoms, but also of the brutal force of earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanoes ready to explode at any moment. A very cinematic, and poignant music, not surprisingly Takaakira Goto cites among his sources of inspiration for "Breaking the Waves" by Lars Von Trier. Kinematics as that of music and then Godspeed. But if the music of the latter point the force was the transition from plan to support in Mono's music seems to be more 'focused on the quest for perfection in every note that the combination of these four virtuoso musicians, among them being the' Goto the incredible skill of Takaakira fender. The strength of Mono is slow at times looking almost suspended in mid air to take in a moment of great and terrible beauty. This tour coincides with the release of "Holy Ground: NYC Live With The Wordless Music Orchestra, a live 90-minute movie in New York with a orchestra of 24 musicians and the production of the great Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Isis, Minus the Bear). The Mono tonight even though only four were able to fill with joy the hearts of those present.

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