Wednesday, June 2, 2010

japanese post-rock divination...



















I have been meaning to catch MONO for years now...  their music is a la Godspeed and Mogwai, quiet/loud, soft/hard, epic sadness that builds slowly but powerfully into varied emotional crescendos.  Having seen these other two bands years ago, I was more than ready to finally catch this Japanese quartet's version of this specific brand of instrumental music.  

Aaaand?  Impressed is not the word - full-on enveloping - the audience bathed in an almost spiritual sadness.  Melancholy, as the old worlds' know it, in its utmost purity and, again, near-sacredness.  Their stage presence was also very dynamic, but I wasn't getting too much into that aspect of the show.  I was too busy, eyes wide shut, opening myself up and up and upward... A very sublime performance.  Well worth the underpriced $13 admission cost...

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