by George Georgiou (song292@yahoo.gr)
Leader Takaakira "Taka" Goto is trying with his limited english to drive the 28-piece chamber orchestra to the direction he has in his troubled heart: "play like a cloud drifting slowly across the sky"... He is so serious that the only way you can take him is... seriously. MONO, the extraordinary japanese post-rockers (if we feel obliged to use the name of a genre to describe the big music...) have sailed with their cinematic ship before 10 years and this is their fifth, new album, three years after brilliant "You Are There". Recorded in Chicago, again with producer Steve Albini and faithfully following analog recordings, they have certainly been more into neoclassical paths of expressions. Their extensive tracks still creep with shimmering guitars and leading to biblical distortions with marching drums push you to a solution of hope but there is also a rich depth of epic, detailed orchestration filling their sources with numerous gifts of sounds. All these patient trips of the soul from personal drama to a violent catharsis come growing in waves of impressions ,building a vision of inner revelation. MONO sound like an ancient music box of honest sentiments kept hidden in the closet for the daily last breath before surrendering to sleep: no hesitations, no strategic balances, no intelligent manouevres between the head and the heart, only a heroic eastern march to the eternal fire of truth. For all those growing listeners in the post rock fields, all the tracks of the album are clearly memorable: in their gently increasing tunes from abyss to enlightenment, they have their special melodies shining to improve that these are not practice of a certain style but births of pure expression. From "Ashes in the snow" to "Everlasting light", this is the burning horizon with the fatal dance of all the sentiments we are afraid to face...
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