Boards
Brew presents: MONO & Glissando - 18/03 - Leeds
Brew presents:
18th March 2010 - Brudenell Social Club:
MONO
After touring almost non-stop for five years, the band hibernated for over a year to focus solely on writing Hymn. The result is their most thoughtful and eclectic album to date. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. The music is naturally majestic, with MONO’s trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up.
Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor’s opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments
While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO's music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO’s strongest virtue.
+ support from
GLISSANDO
Glissando is a duo from Leeds, UK playing ambient, slowcore, classical based music. Their debut album 'With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea' was released to high critical acclaim on Gizeh in June 2008. A heavy touring schedule in 2008, including shows with Stars of the Lid, and now into 2009 is taking this beautiful band to fresh audiences and complete with added members Glissando is now a breathtaking live experience.
"Low meets Mogwai, only with fragments of Regina Spektor at her most restrained. Exceptional."- Rockfood (5/5)
http://www.myspace.com/glissando
Doors: 7.30pm:
Adv Tickets: £10
Direct from us (no booking fee):
http://brewrecords.bigcartel.com/product/toggle-options-ticket-mono-18th-march-2010-brudenell-leeds
Wegottickets:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/68593
Seetickets:
http://www.seetickets.com/s.asp?a=mono&p=6436
Will also available at Crash & Jumbo Records (Leeds) very soon
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=233538903479&ref=nf
Last FM event: http://www.last.fm/event/1353670+Mono+--+Plus+Guests%2C+18th+March+2010+--+Leeds