已敲定了！扩音版图将会独家代理日本后摇团体MONO的最新专辑Hymn To The Immortal World，这张由大师Steve Albini负责录音的专辑将收录7首作品，分别是Ashes In The Snow、Burial At The Sea、Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn、Pure As Snow(Trails of The Winter Storm）、Follow The Map、The Battle To Heaven和Everlasting Light。
乐队更是率先在官网上提供Ashes In The Snow的免费下载，让乐迷先听为快。核心成员Taka曾在去年吉隆坡的演出时说过他希望能够与交响乐团合作，将古典乐的元素溶入MONO的作品，展现出巨大的能量与恢宏气息。如今，在重复聆听Ashes In The Snow後，可以真切的感受到乐队所欲达到的境界。作品以轻巧的Xylophone音色作为开端，只延续了一小节，说不上铺陈，因为吉它依然在乐队心目中仍占据相当重要的位置。那些由MONO独家酿造出的吉它音色很快让听者进入状况，但是真正牵动情绪的是弦乐的部分，由Taka亲自编写，即梦幻又凄美，很容易就沉沦其中。直到爆裂的吉它声响起，才警觉那是MONO所创造出的幻境，时而真实美妙，时而惊心动魄。
1. How has the band’s touring experience generally been in this region (Japan, Singapore, etc.)?
We’ve always had good experiences playing in Asia. We’ve been going to Japan regularly for almost 10 years and its one of our favourite places to play.
2. What’s finally brought you over to Malaysia? Are you aware of your fan-base here?
When we played in Singapore a few years ago we met lots of people who had came over for the concert so we knew that there were people who liked Mogwai in Malaysia.
3. Any expectations for your Malaysia show?
I’m sure its going to be a great night. I always like going to new places and i’m really intrigued by Malaysia as I’m sure it is very different from Scotland.
4. How does it affect your live performance to be playing in a new place, as opposed to somewhere you’ve already toured and are familiar with the fan-base?
It doesn’t really matter though if its somewhere we’ve never been before we might play more of our old songs as no one there will have heard them before.
5. Malaysia has played host to other major instrumental rock acts over the past year (Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Toe). How does the band regard these other acts? For the sake of those who’ve watched the aforementioned bands, what can they expect from your band?
Those bands play a similar style of music to us and are good bands but i think we are bit different. I think if people enjoyed those bands they would enjoy hearing us as well.
6. Malaysia has had a wave of (for simplicity’s sake) ‘post-rock’ bands in the past few years, many of which cite you as influences. Is this flattering or does it bother you that there’s saturation of bands playing the same kind of music? Would you personally choose to listen to bands like these that played music influenced by you?
I think its very flattering when people are influenced by your music. It doesn’t bother me at all.
7. Anything you’d like to say to your Malaysian fans? (To those who’ll be at the show, and to those still deciding whether or not to go)
不得不佩服他们的效率，短短的六个月时间，在录音与巡演的期间，美国、日本、东南亚多趟来回、折腾後，仍能将专辑在预设的期限内录制完毕。
另外，Mono的最新T-shirt，已开始在网上发售，跟之前在吉隆坡演出的那款小天使设计一样，让人看了後有股冲动，想占为己有。如果真的压抑不住自己的欲望，可到
