Biography Japanese Post-Rock band MONO were formed in Tokyo when long-time friends Takaakira Goto and Yoda met Tamaki Kunishi and Yasunori Takada in 1999. They played their first gig in January 2000, at Club 251 in Setagaya, Tokyo. They recorded their first album Under the Pipal Tree in 2001, with a majority of the tracks recorded live in one day. They decided to do this on all their studio albums. After the release the band spent years touring continuously. In 2004 they met Steve Albini, with whom they recorded Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined and, in 2006, the massive You Are There. They intergrated more complex, orchestral arrangements and instrumentation on their later material. For the album Hymn to the Immortal Wind they used a 28-piece chamber orchestra. The band's style is characterised by the lead and rhythm guitars of Takaakira Goto and Yoda. They both make extensive use of reverb, distortion and delay effects. MONO is known for their intense and emotional live performances, using extreme dynamics in crescendos as well as diminuendos. 'Music is communicating the incommunicable; that means a term like post-rock doesn't mean much to us, as the music needs to transcend genre to be meaningful.' —Takaakira Goto, Time Out

Mono (stylised as MONO) is a Japanese instrumental band, formed in 1999 in Tokyo. The band consists of Takaakira "Taka" Goto (electric guitar, glockenspiel), Hideki "Yoda" Suematsu (electric guitar, glockenspiel), Dahm Majuri Cipolla (drums), and Tamaki Kunishi (bass guitar, electric guitar, piano, glockenspiel).

Biography Japanese Post-Rock band MONO were formed in Tokyo when long-time friends Takaakira Goto and Yoda met Tamaki Kunishi and Yasunori Takada in 1999. They played their first gig in January 2000, at Club 251 in Setagaya, Tokyo. They recorded their first album Under the Pipal Tree in 2001, with a majority of the tracks recorded live in one day. They decided to do this on all their studio albums. After the release the band spent years touring continuously. In 2004 they met Steve Albini, with whom they recorded Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined and, in 2006, the massive You Are There. They intergrated more complex, orchestral arrangements and instrumentation on their later material. For the album Hymn to the Immortal Wind they used a 28-piece chamber orchestra. The band's style is characterised by the lead and rhythm guitars of Takaakira Goto and Yoda. They both make extensive use of reverb, distortion and delay effects. MONO is known for their intense and emotional live performances, using extreme dynamics in crescendos as well as diminuendos. 'Music is communicating the incommunicable; that means a term like post-rock doesn't mean much to us, as the music needs to transcend genre to be meaningful.' —Takaakira Goto, Time Out

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