Monoral Discography

MONORAL is a rock duo from Japan consisting of vocalist Anis Shimada and bassist Ali Morizumi. They released their first indie mini-album, in stereo, in 2001 and a second one, ammonite, in 2004. In July 2005, they released their first full-length album, Petrol, and, in November of the same year, made their major debut with the single VISIONS IN MY HEAD under Hyde’s HAUNTED RECORDS (Ki/oon Sony Japan) label. Their second single, Tuesday, was released in May of 2007, followed by their second album, Turbulence, in July.

Anis, is half Japanese and half Moroccan and, in addition to speaking English and Japanese, speaks French and Arabic, which can be heard on Sugizo’s C:LEAR album and Fantastic Plastic Machine’s zoo. Ali is half Japanese and half American and is also fluent in English as well as Japanese. Anis has also sung for Belt and worked on the English translations for Hyde’s 666 album, on which you can hear Anis’ voice in the song titled Masquerade.

Origin Japan
Genres Rock
Years active 2001–present

Albums
1st Album:
[Petrol]
CSCA-011
7.13.2005

Track Listing:
01 Tente
02 Frozen Peak
03 Healthy Sick Bastard
04 Nothing more Nothing less
05 Don't you look away
06 Garden
07 Let me in
08 Window stool
09 Like You
10 Tangled
11 Tame Me

160&192kbps
56mb
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2nd Album:
[Turbulence]
XQCR-1003
7.4.2007

Track Listing:
01 Pocketful of Joy
02 Sparta
03 Vimana
04 Monkey Cage
05 Tuesday
06 Visions in my Head
07 Perfect Gold
08 Kiri
09 Pompador
10 Shenanigans
11 Turbulence
12 Session 9

320kbps
105mb
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Part 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BI0WMP4H



Mini-albums
1st Mini-Album:
[In Stereo]
AECR-1001
7.25.2001

Track Listing:
01 release me
02 Goodbye
03 wash
04 weird kind of swings
05 this band has not begun

320kbps
43mb
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2nd Mini-Album:
[Ammonite]
GNS-17001
3.24.2004

Track Listing:
01 I Am I Am
02 I like it
03 Ammonite
04 Oh no!
05 So long

128kbps
20mb
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Singles
1st Single:
[Visions in My Head]
KSCL-895
11.02.2005

Track Listing:
01 Visions in My Head
02 Pocketful of Joy

320kbps
19mb
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2nd Single:
[Tuesday]
XQCR-1001
5.9.2007

Track Listing:
01 Tuesday
02 PERFECT GOLD

320kbps
18mb
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1st Digital Single:
[Kiri]
n/a
05.25.2006

Track Listing:
01 Kiri

192kbps
5mb
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2nd Digital Single:
[Casbah]
n/a
07.30.2008

Track Listing:
01 Casbah

320kbps
6mb
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