Monos 'Sunny Day in Saginomiya' Ltd.art edtion with framed collage
April 2025
Darren Tate has made a small art edtion of this ever popular album. Newly remastered by Colin Potter the CDR is in a clear wallet, each copy comes with a different collage in a 23 x 19cm oak frame with 2 postcards. This is a very nice edition, but we only have a few copies.
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Originally issued as a pressing of 500 by editions... & long out of print, it was reissued by Darren back in 2015 as a limited edtion of 100 CDRs, also long sold out.
Review of the original release : Over the past couple of years, Darren Tate has been releasing an impressive catalogue of tiny edition CD-Rs for his project Monos, which began as a solo project although more recently has doubled in size with the addition of Colin Potter (who had worked with Tate in the organic drone ensemble Ora). While those CD-Rs go out of print almost as soon as they're pressed, Tate has fortunately allowed other labels access to his recordings for much larger pressings, including the "360 Degrees" and "Nightfall Sunshine" albums for Anomalous and Die Stadt respectively. Edition... (yes, the ellipsis is a part of the label's name) has commissioned Monos for "Sunny Day In Saginomiya," an album as good as any within Monos' catalogue of processed field recordings. Working in Potter's IC studios (which has not only produced likeminded work from Organum, Jonathan Coleclough, and Andrew Chalk, but also the Dadaist collages of Nurse With Wound), Monos applied thick patinas of reverb and electric synthesis to a set of field recordings provided by another occasional Ora contributor Daisuke Suzuki. The first half of the album couples the reverb saturated field recordings of birds with some eerie spectral guitar drone work from Darren Tate, recalling some of the early Main albums. The second half is far more spartan as Monos works their magic on a Daisuke Suzuki recording of bells, gongs, and rattles occasionally marked by ascending delay patterns and gradually overcome by the analogue electronics found on "Nightfall Sunshine." Quite lovely.
