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。


“最突出的还是他内在强烈的洞察力，作品呈现的就是这样冷静理智的作曲家的心理风景。较之前作规模更为宏大，堪称杰作。”-- Yumiko Kakoi/Music Magazine (Mar 2005)

“吉他、钢琴、弦乐等等ACOUSTIC乐器与大自然声音、SYNTH互相交织，像梦幻般的声音令人心情舒畅。可是这次作品的魅力并非只有于此，作品中也时有显现著强烈的NOISE，脱离著现实而又像牧羊歌。这样子的音乐有著一份天真的黑暗，像极了幻想文学一样的作品。”-- Keyboard magazine (Apr 2005)

“World’s End Girlfriend深明如何透过音乐去说故事．．．从他第一张专辑尝试表现出失序的世界与现代潮流的反感，在《Farewell Kingdom》中继续延伸他的世界观，并且更懂得用音乐去说自己的故事。”-- 野田努

“在WEG音乐构成的画面背后，彷彿看到一张可爱少女的笑容。她的表情美不可言，却隐隐让我感觉到一切的尽头。”-- 佐佐木敦（HEADZ/FADER）

“WEG音乐的基本要素是调性的（modal）电子声响以及追求结构的意向。这声音组成包含丰富故事性的片段。我们还听到受古典音乐影响的声音和原音乐器的合奏，不过这些都只是他音乐世界的小小片段而已。在我们判定何谓WEG的音乐前，可能必须搜集更多片段。”-- 松村正人（STUDIO VOICE）

“他的音乐除了拥有唯美而颓废的部分之外，还有显示种种未曾接触过的世界观。这点让我重新体会电子音乐的自由度和开放性。可说他的出现让我们知道音乐如何进行进步。”-- Com.A (notekrec)

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.

(From Xiami)

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