![]() ![]() ![]() The band spent the bulk of the year composing more music and performing at various houses around Tokyo, in the neighbourhoods of Setagaya, Shimokitazawa, and Shibuya. In May 2000, the band entered Rinky Dink Studio in Tokyo and recorded their first extended play with engineers Tetsuya Morioka and Toshiro Kai, which was later self-released in September 2000: a Japan-only release titled Hey, You on their own independent record label, Forty-4. The band played their first show in late January 2000, at Club 251 in Setagaya, Tokyo. By December 1999, Tamaki Kunishi and Yasunori Takada had joined Mono on bass guitar and drums, respectively. In January 1999, Tokyo native electric guitarist Takaakira 'Taka' Goto began composing music and spent the remainder of the year searching for other musicians with which to form an instrumental rock band eventually recruiting long-time friend and fellow electric guitarist Hideki 'Yoda' Suematsu on rhythm guitar. It also contains Tamaki's first vocals for the band on the track 'Breathe'. ![]() Their most recent effort, 'Nowhere Now Here' was released on January 25th 2019 through Pelagic Records, and was produced by the band's longtime friend Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, Chicago. In October 2016 the band released their ninth studio album, titled Requiem for Hell. During the tour that followed they recorded a live album, Holy Ground: NYC Live With The Wordless Music Orchestra which was released in 2010. In 2008, the band took a break, returning one year later with a new studio album, Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009), also on Temporary Residence Limited. From 2004 to 2007, Mono signed to Temporary Residence Limited, released two more studio albums, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (2004) and You Are There (2006), and toured worldwide in their support. ![]() The band spent their early years, from 1999 to 2003, touring Asia, Europe, and America continuously, and released two studio albums, Under the Pipal Tree (2001) and One Step More and You Die (2002) on the Tzadik Records and Music Mine Inc. ![]()
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