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MONO Announce New Live Album ‘Beyond The Past’ – Listen To ‘Meet Us Where the Night Ends’

January 26, 2021

MONO ANNOUNCE NEW LIVE ALBUM ‘BEYOND THE PAST’
RELEASED 19TH MARCH (PELAGIC RECORDS) 

LISTEN TO ‘MEET US WHERE THE NIGHT ENDS’

For two decades, MONO have defined and re-fined a kind of orchestral rock that is as emotional as it is experimental. Their 10 studio albums over those 20 years have established MONO as what Pitchfork described as “one of the most distinctive bands of the 21st Century.” Meanwhile, their live concerts are typically more subdued in instrumentation – and more supercharged in volume and voltage. Rarely is there the opportunity to combine those two experiences. In their 20-year history as a band, MONO have presented no more than a half-dozen live concerts featuring the support of an orchestra. Such events are not only unusual they are also unforgettable.

Released on 19th March (Pelagic Records), Beyond the Past • Live in London with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra documents MONO’s extraordinary performance from the Beyond the Past event that celebrated the band’s 20th anniversary, which took place at the historic Barbican Centre in London, England on December 14, 2019. 

For that once-in-a-life- time event, MONO selected a memorable lineup of old and new friends, including fellow Japanese underground icons, Boris and Envy, as well as French post-metal legends, Alcest, and UK collaborators A.A. Williams and Jo Quail. The event culminated with MONO performing with The Platinum Anniversary Orchestra, featuring National Youth String Orchestra to a rapt, sold-out audience of 2,000.

Playing through a two-hour set that touches on the band’s entire history, the sheer euphoria and dynamic resonance that engulfed the massive crowd was captured in brilliant detail by MONO’s live sound engineer, Matt Cook.

 Meticulously mastered by Bob Weston and presented here in its entire two-hour glory, Beyond the Past is one of the most essential MONO recordings. Packaged in a triple gatefold with accompanying 40-page photo book, this is the rare document of an event that is an event in and of itself.

Pre-order now – https://bit.ly/monobeyondthepast

MONO Live dates: 

Summer Festivals 2021:
Jul 19 / FR Clisson / Hellfest Open Air 2021

 Aug 19 / UK Bristol / ArcTanGent Festival 2021 

European Tour 2022 (postponed from 2021) 


Feb 10 – NO Oslo, Jakob 

Feb 11 – SE Stockholm, Sodra Teatern 

Feb 12 – DK Copenhagen, Pumpehuset 

Feb 13 – DE Hamburg, Uebel & Gefahrlich 

Feb 14 – DE Berlin, Hole 44 

Feb 15 – DE Cologne, Luxor 

Feb 16 – CH Zurich, Mascotte 

Feb 17 – CH Bulle, Ebullition 

Feb 18 – FR Toulouse, Le Rex 

Feb 19 – FR Biarritz, Atabal 

Feb 21 – PT Porto, Hard Club 

Feb 22 – PT Lisbon, LAV 

Feb 23 – ES Seville, Custom 

Feb 24 – ES Murcia, Garaj 

Feb 25 – ES Madrid, Shoko 

Feb 26 – ES Barcelona, Apollo 2 

Feb 28 – FR Besancon, L’Antonnoir 

Mar 1 – FR Paris, Trabendo 

Mar 2 – BE Antwerp, Zappa 

Mar 3 – FR Lille, Aeronef 

Mar 4 – UK London, Lafayette 

Mar 5 – UK London, EartH 

Mar 8 – UK Glasgow, St. Luke’s     

Mar 9 – UK Leeds, City Varieties 


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