Mono

date et heure

mardi 16 février 2027 de 20:00 à 23:00

promoteur

Super Monamour

infos

MONO in concert at Cabaret Sauvage on 16 February 2027 at 19h00.

The Tokyo, Japan-based 4-piece instrumental rock band MONO was originally formed in 1999. Their original style of fusing rock and classical music has received worldwide acclaim as a new form of deeply moving music, one that evokes the emotions and imagery hidden deep within the listener’s heart: joy and sorrow, light and darkness, life and death.

Over the first decade, MONO established its status, especially with their live performances. Through their annual world tour consisting of around 150 shows, visiting now over 60 countries. A particularly notable early live memory was a special set of 10th anniversary shows, held with an orchestra, in New York, Tokyo, London and Melbourne; which was later immortalised as the live album “Holy Ground”. For the respective anniversary show in Tokyo, they also had the pleasure of collaborating with NHK Symphony Orchestra master Fuminori Shinozaki.

Outside of the studio and live music, MONO has also composed film scores. After releasing 10 albums including a live album with an orchestra, the band received The Marshall Hawkins Awards: Best Musical Score - Featurette from the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema for their collaborative short film “Where We Begin” in 2015, and the band was also nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Original Music Score for the feature film “The 4th Company” which was released in 2016. In addition, the band handled the music for the feature film “All God’s Children Can Dance” written by Haruki Murakami, the original TV drama “Kanata No Ko” by Japan’s leading broadcasting network WOWOW, the feature film “Real Onigokko” written and directed by Sion Sono, and more.

In 2018, MONO began a new journey. After welcoming the new drummer Dahm, the band started to prepare for their second decade’s celebration and during this time, they received a special invitation to be one of the headliners of London’s Meltdown Festival, personally requested by the 2018 curator Robert Smith of The Cure. The stage was then shared with artists such as My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, Mogwai and Deftones.

The band’s 20th anniversary was welcomed the following year. To commemorate this occasion, the 10th album “Nowhere Now Here” was released alongside a year-long world tour, consisting of four special orchestra shows in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and London, ending in March 2020. One of the orchestra shows, held at the historic Barbican Hall in London, was once again immortalised as a live album “Beyond the Past”, which charted at #2 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover Albums in the US.

MONO entered the third decade. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the band started production for a new album with one of the band’s longtime partners, Steve Albini. The 11th album, entitled “Pilgrimage of the Soul”, was released in September of the following year, which charted at #85 on Billboard’s General Album Sales in the US for the first time, and also charted #2 on Alternative New Artist Albums.

In 2022, the band started on a new soundtrack work for the documentary film “My Story, the Buraku Story”, directed by Yusaku Mitsuwaka. After nationwide premieres the same year, the film was awarded first place in the Cultural Film Award at the 96th Kinema Junpo Best Ten.

In 2024, to mark the 25th anniversary of MONO, the band released their 12th album “Oath” on 14 June and toured 16 countries — France, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan and the United States — with an orchestra from October to December.

In September 2025, MONO returned to Electrical Audio to record their 13th album, “Snowdrop”. Following the loss of their longtime friend and producer Steve Albini, the band collaborated with producer Brad Wood to honour Albini’s legacy while navigating a new creative chapter.