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ARTIST: Mono/World's End Girlfriend
ALBUM: Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain
QUALiTY: CBR192
GENRE: Post Rock
SiZE: 104.76megs
RELEASE DATE: 2005年01月01日
Introduction:
Mono+WEG的超级组合带来的超级专辑.
"面对战争与死亡，作为人类，基本上是无助的，因为前路并不能自由选择。我们生存在这里，大概只能以惭愧、谦卑、自省的心灵，检视人类深处的占有欲，祈望不会被拉扯出来，再次进入一次轮回。World's End Girlfriend就是以这个心态，来为这次与Mono的合作专辑而展开工作。双方都刻意隐退了那些签名式的电音及轰音，以相当纯净的小提玲及电结他互相交织出一张74分钟的网，小提琴的返覆演奏似是对死者的默悼，中段加入mono式不徐不疾的电结他，缓缓输送一种乐观天真的气息。到最后小提琴与结他的高潮融合，除了令听者出了一身冷汗，也感受到那种死亡与重生的拉锯。 "
乐队介绍:
World's End Girlfriend是日本另类音乐的又一支奇兵，勘称是日本当前最具风格的另类音乐家。自2000年在半野喜弘旗下场牌发行首张专辑后，接着被英国Third Ear引荐到欧洲，2003年受邀参加巴塞隆纳的Sonar音乐节。去年夏天在台北、香港、澳门的巡回演出让中国乐迷为之一震。
WEG曾说他在创作时深深热衷于Godspeed You Black Emperor!的音乐，的确他的音乐往往天马行空，繁花似锦。Unspoiled Monster的悲凉与凄凉像无尽的岁月流逝，正是一岁一枯荣，一年一回首。
What the hell? In April 2006, Mono released their instrumental opus You Are There on Temporary Residence and they toured the world in support of it. In September of the same year Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain is issued as a collaborative album with World's End Girlfriend (aka Katsushiko Maeda), the underground Japanese producer, mixologist, and multi-instrumentalist. Helping out with this slab are a string section, a chorus, a pianist, and jazz saxophonist Takafumi Ishikawa. This is, it appears, one long set with each "movement" or division in it marked with the titles "Trailer 1," "Trailer 2," "Trailer 3," and so on. It begins innocently enough with an elegy played by the string section, shifting slowly, purposefully in dirge mode. The guitars begin to enter at seven-and-a-half minutes into the 12-minute opener. The chorus enters in "Trailer 2" with the guitars barely present, but adding just enough tension that the listener knows something is about to happen. Tension is built so slowly as to almost be imperceptible. On "Trailer 3," Mono begins to play as a trio, with drums weaving through the strings, which become more insistent until WEG and Mono set the noise to stun about halfway through its 13-plus minutes. Chorus, piano, and silence add dimension to the strings on "Trailer 4," and Mono begins their swell, burn and release on the final trailer, slipping around the background, creating a taut sonic backdrop until the entire thing just explodes as a mournful, gorgeous, funereal hymn that eventually enters back into silence. Palmless Prayer reveals an entirely different side of this band, who nonetheless keep their individual identity adding depth and dimension to their sound. This isn't classical music, but it's not rock, either. It's something else entirely, which apparently folds into the multivalent calling card Mono have attempted to establish since they began. It's puzzling, bewildering and utterly beautiful.
