We are doing the new MONNO album due for release November 21. For you unaware about this band, MONNO is a Swiss / Canadian band around Antoine Chessex and Gilles Aubry. Antoine Chessex travels the world with his solo tenor sax performances, he has performed and played with Sudden Infant, Chris Corsano, KTL, Hijokaidan, Lasse Marhaug, Aethenor, Zbigniew Karkowsky and many more. Gilles Aubry is known for his solo sound installations, field recordings and collaborations with Keiji Haino, Axel Doerner and the improv duo The Same Girl.
With MONNO they are more than the sum of their parts. This is the third MONNO album we are involved in, the first album Candlelight Technology was released on our sister label Subdeviant Records, and is temporarely available from the band only. Their second album ‘Error’ was released in 2006, the vinyl went out of print almost straight away and the CD was well received, and got the band to tour with Lightning Bolt, Isis, Jesu and Knut. And now there is ‘Ghosts’, their 3rd album. Etheric yet droning vocals covered in doom frost, gradually moving into uptempo black metal waters, than backdropping in sludge mystery like a free-jazz bat in the night…. We are printing shirts exclusive available for pre-order in our webstore. Pre-orders run from today until November 16. All payed pre-orders will ship on the releasedate of November 21. Pre-orders consist of the shirt (choose your size) and either the CD or Vinyl (choose your color) for only 18.95 euro.
The LP is a one time pressing of 500 copies, 100 on silver vinyl for mailorder customers only.
If you only want the vinyl without the shirt please add the item to your wishlist, you'll receive a mail a couple of days prior the actual release date so you'll have the chance to order the album before it becomes generally available.
You can Preorder the package here
Add the cd or lp to your wishlist here
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