In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the musical masterminds in Japan’s MONO felt compelled to offer a special gift of sonic serenity to their fans for the 2020 holiday season. Released digitally, “Scarlet Holliday” and “First Winter” were intended to stoke a flame of...
Music as an artform is meant to inspire, to make each listener feel something as they take a journey outside of or within themselves. MONO, Japanese titans of Experimental Rock, have been doing just this for the past two decades and counting. And on their...
The conflict inherent between darkness and light is both a timeless and a universal theme, artistically speaking. Japan’s MONO know this fact all too well, and have their own relationship with the concept, one that they are prepared to dance macabrely with on Nowhere Now...
A musical composition is merely notes on a page until someone comes along with an instrument to give it a pulse. That in mind, the life a song has is only as passionate as the player themselves. Tearing each melody from the depths of their...
