Got a free minute here in Holland, so I'll squeeze in a couple of quick lines about last week's concert at John Dee. After seeing Girl Talk with Fredrika and Squarepusher with Stian, I was by myself again this time around when I went to the gig of japanese post rock band Mono. I hadn't listened to a single song of theirs beforehand, only knew they are among the likes of Explosions In The Sky or Godspeed You! Black Emperor and remembered Andrea once gushing about them back in Copenhagen.

But damn, it was good! Of course not the same sort of 'experience' as a Gregg Gillis, but intense nonetheless, on another level. These four produced sound full of bombast and opulence while maintaining a sort of cool, japanese indifference towards both crowd and, as it seemed, even their own music – with occasional outbursts of emotion towards the end. I loved how almost all their songs, 90% of which stretched over at least 10 minutes, usually started very minimalist and quiet but then developed into these massive walls of melodic noise. Definitely go see them, should they ever be in your area.

P.S. I promise this was the last concert post for a while, next one's in late May :)