Artist: 

MONO & world’s end girlfriend

Title: Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain

Catalog # 

TRR108

Format: 

2xLP

Release Date: 

October 10, 2006

Label:

 Temporary Residence Ltd.

UPC:

LP:

The players:   

Takaakira "Taka" Goto

 

 

 

Yasunori Takada

 

 

 

Tamaki

 

 

 

Yoda

 

 

 

Just before recording their epic disasterpiece You Are There, 

MONO began collaborating with fellow Tokyo 

native  and  modern  electronic  composer 

world’s  end  girlfriend.  The  result  is  a  five-part  sojourn  of 

neoclassical grace and luminescence that defies lazy categorization. As dark as the bottom of the ocean, and 

nearly  as  otherworldly,  Palmless  Prayer/Mass  Murder  Refrain  finds  MONO  inhabiting  an  illuminated  world 

previously only hinted at in their most orchestral compositions.

Recorded  in  multiple  studios  in  Japan  last  year,  Palmless  Prayer  joins  MONO’s  increasing  obsession  with 

classical music with world’s end girlfriend’s mastery of subtle dynamic shifts. Forgoing their tendency to erupt 

into hellish bursts of speaker-destroying noise, MONO instead exhibits remarkable restraint, stretching song 

lengths past the 15-minute mark and turning barely-there crescendoes into earth-shaking events.

Less an epiphany and more a reminder of the beauty that already exists all around us, Palmless Prayer is a 

miniature panoramic view of the sea on an eerily still day, the current swaying at an impossibly lazy pace and 

the sound of a thousand tiny waves crashing all at once.

Track Listing:   

1. 

Part One

 

 

 

2. 

Part Two

 

 

 

3. 

Part Three

 

 

 

4. 

Part Four

 

 

 

5. 

Part Five

Also Available:  

TRR98 MONO You Are There CD/2xLP – UPC: 

656605309828

 

 

 

TRR74 MONO New York Soundtracks LP – UPC: 

656605307411

 

 

 

TRR73 MONO One Step More and You Die CD – UPC: 

656605307329

 

 

 

TRR68 MONO Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky... CD/2xLP – UPC: 

656605306827

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