For My Parents
After years of exploring, searching ourselves, and composing pieces here and there, we found ourselves with more questions than answers.
When we could not find these answers in the outside world, we were bound to turn inward. And so we went back to our roots.
This is something we wanted to do while we still have the chance. What cannot be explained in words to parents, we hope can be captured by these songs.
We hope that this album serves as a gift from child to parent. While everything else continues to change, this love remains a constant throughout time.
——Mono

Throughout their six-year career, this Japanese quartet has ascended consistently in both popularity and critical acclaim. But still elusive is the successful translation of their powerful and violently beautiful live performances to their recordings, until now. Once again recorded by Steve Albini, the album extends the cinematic drama of 2003's "Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined" while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded "One Step More And You Die". If "Walking Cloud" was a nuclear winter, then "You Are There" is the post-war rebirth. This band isn't heavy like Black Sabbath. They're heavy like Beethoven.

中岛美雪是出生于日本北海道札幌市，成长于带广市的创作型女歌手。于1975年出道，1980年代得到极大欢迎，至今仍活跃在歌坛一线，并受到普遍的支持，在日本流行音乐界有着举足轻重的地位，是跨越四个年代的常青歌手。代表作主要有舞台剧《夜会》。除了是职业歌手外，中岛美雪还是作词家、作曲家、作家、广播主持人、演员。

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Mono《Hymn to the Immortal Wind》
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温暖春意，黑洞唱片亮色系列正式起航，推出Post Rock界著名日本乐队MONO的全新专辑《Hymn To The Immortal Wind》中国地区引进版！
MONO乐队10年音乐里程之见证，首次运用交响元素，MONO后摇音乐全新超凡体验汇集于《Hymn To The Immortal Wind》。
全24页全彩色内页文案，7首出色作品，造就2009年最完美的概念性专辑！
发行时间：2009.4