Instrumental rock from Japan! When silence turns into sound and sound into infinity. Their music is not just a concert, it is an experience where time dissolves and emotions turn into trembling string vibrations. This will be an evening where sound speaks louder than words.
MONO's guitar compositions range from melodically hypnotic and euphoric calm to billowing musical storms that have the power to wipe out everything in their path. As is typical of Asian artists, MONO also takes the instrumental post-rock they play to a new, heightened and even exaggerated but still comfortable level for the auditory senses, which is especially noticeable during their live performances. It should be recalled that the Japanese quartet has already played three sold-out concerts in Riga, and this will be the reunion of the Latvian audience that has already fallen in love with them after an eleven-year hiatus, to see once again that they are one of the greatest concert bands on the planet.
MONO's latest - their twelfth full-length studio album "Oath" - is one of the last audio albums produced by Steve Albini, who left this world in 2024. It begins with airy electronic sounds, gradually joined by horns and a mighty orchestra, as the quartet awaits its moment of joining, as if at rest, to take you on a dizzying journey that ultimately results in the victory of common sense over all the evils of the world, which MONO already highlighted on their 2016 album "Requiem for Hell". Last year, MONO celebrated its quarter-centenary by touring sixteen countries, playing in North America and China this spring before returning to Europe and Riga.