Mono
2016-11-20
P60, Amstelveen, Netherlands
1:14:55

tracks:
1. Ashes in the Snow
2. Death in Rebirth
3. Dream Odyssey
4. Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)
5. Recoil, Ignite
6. Requiem for Hell 

lineage:
AUD (by Jerry(19)70, position: back to sound desk, slightly left of centre) > Aiwa stereo mic > M-Audio Microtrack II (WAV 16/44.1) > Audacity (normalise, fade-in at start, fade-out at end, hard limit on applause only) > FLAC level 8 (16/44.1)

Mono on their dual-headline tour with Alcest, while pg:lost opened. I got into the post-rock scene only recently so there is a lot for me to discover. Watching some videos before I bought a ticket I though pg:lost would be interesting for me (and proved to be very interesting; also recorded and shared), Alcest would be too much black metal to my taste (and proved to be less black metal than anticipated but still not appealing to me; not recorded), an Mono would be very good.

This was my first Mono concert. Wow. Beau! Ti! Ful! So much more elements than many other post-rock acts I've heard. They are constantly building something else. Building atmosphere, building a train ride, building a blooming flower... A lot more variation than I experienced with, for example, Maybeshewill. There is still a lot of quiet starts building up to a heavy climax at the end, which is therefore to be expected. That is something that seems to happen a lot in post-rock and somewhat ruins the surprise. But the variation in sounds and atmosphere was excellent.

The recording turned out pretty well, lots of details are audible, although the in-house mix was a bit too blurry in the heavy parts and didn't come across that well on the recording. It was great to see people waiting until the end of the song before clapping, making it very easy to hard limit on the applause to make normalisation easier. I was afraid the people around me would keep on talking but as soon as the band came on stage they stopped! :) The moment that the band came on stage, several people applauded and whistled but since some people were still talking I removed that bit. My recording starts where the band starts playing the first song. Between the songs and during the quiet intros to the songs you hear people shuffling and coughing now and then but it was one of the quietest audiences I've witnessed in ages.

I heard Mono was recorded by probably four different people. I don't know the positions of those people in the audience but chances are the sources are from different places in the audience and are of a different quality. If someone wants to do a mix from different sources, be my guest.

Enjoy!
Jerry(19)70
