Hymn to the Immortal Wind
by MONO
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 March 2009
- Label: Human Highway
- Country: Japan
- Length: 1:06:50
- Community rating: 4.06/5 from 13 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Celebrating their 10th anniversary, MONO worked with Steve Albini and a 25-piece orchestra to create this cinematic masterpiece. The album tells a tragic love story through swelling crescendos and beautiful, sweeping melodies. It is widely regarded as one of the definitive albums of the orchestral post-rock genre.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, expansive, orchestral, crescendo, japanese, symphonic, strings, atmospheric
Tracklist
- Ashes in the Snow (11:44)
- Burial at Sea (10:39)
- Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn (06:00)
- Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm) (11:25)
- Follow the Map (03:54)
- The Battle to Heaven (12:51)
- Everlasting Light (10:17)
Credits
- Takaakira Goto - arranged by [strings], electric guitar
- Esteban Rey - art direction
- Jeremy deVine - art direction
- Tamaki Kunishi - bass guitar, piano, glockenspiel, harpsichord
- Alison Chesley - cello
- Ellen O'Hayer - cello
- Jill Kaeding - cello
- Margaret Daly - cello
- Mark Anderson - cello
- Mellissa Bach - cello
- Michael Duggan - cello
- Richard Yeo - cello
- Wendy Cotton - cello
- Dave Max Crawford - conductor
- Paul Von Mertens - conductor
- Kent Kessler - contrabass
- Yasunori Takada - drums, timpani, cymbal, glockenspiel
- Yoda - electric guitar, organ
- Jennifer Clippert - flute
- Mary Stoper - flute
- John Golden - mastered by
- Steve Albini - mixed by, recorded by
- Mono - producer
- Benton Wedge - viola
- Eille Bakkum - viola
- John Sagos - viola
- Vannia Phillips - viola
- Carmen Llop Kassinger - violin
- Carol Kalvonjian - violin
- Chie Yoshinaka - violin
- Inger Peterson Carle - violin
- Jeff Yang - violin
- Jody Livo - violin
- Katherine Hughes - violin
- Steve Winkler - violin
- Susan Voelz - violin
- Andra Kulans - violin, viola