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Biography

Monoral is a Japanese people|Japanese alternative rock band signed to Sony Music Japan . The band consists of Anis Shimada on lead vocal s and guitar and Ali Morizumi on Bass (guitar)|bass and guitar.

Members

Anis, the band's lead singer, born on February 23, 1975, is a Japanese-Moroccan who speaks Japanese language|Japanese , English language|English , French language|French , and Arabic language|Arabic . Born in London and raised in France . Anis was first discovered by Tetsuya Komuro , with whom he released a debut single in 1994 under the name of Aniss. He used to be a fashion model, as well as a MTV show host. He also used to support some famous musicians performing on TV as a guitarist . He is often involved with the creation of TV commercial songs, singing backup for other famous musicians, writing English lyrics and helping other artists as an English supervisor.

Ali, born in 1973, is a Japanese-American who grew up in Tokyo . He can speak both Japanese and English fluently. He was a VJ on MTV Japan , where he eventually met Anis. Ali is also a professional radio DJ and hosts a show on InterFM as well.

History

Their debut was in July 2001. Only 2 days after the release of their first mini album in stereo , they performed at the Fuji Rock Festival 2001. The band's second minor debut album ammonite , which rose as high as #3 on the Tower Records Indie Charts in Japan , remained in the Top 50 for 7 months. In 2005 they released their first major debut with the single Visions In My Head , under the label Haunted Records (a subsidiary of Sony Music Japan ), which was created by the Japanese rock musician, Hyde (musician)|HYDE , lead vocalist of L'Arc-en-Ciel .
They are now signed on HYDE's label VAMPROSE.

The songs "Pocketful of joy" and "Visions in my Head" were used for a TV commercial for IXY digital camera by Canon.
In 2006, the band performed "Kiri", the opening theme to the anime series Ergo Proxy . The song was also released via the iTunes Store on May 25, 2006. Monoral also released their second major album, Turbulence , on July 4, 2007and Via , on October 29, 2008 After the release of Via , they toured in Latin America, Europe and China.

Collaborations

Monoral's support members are the guitarists Akira Yasue and Tokyo Jihen#Members|Hirama Mikio (former member of Tokyo Incidents ) and Daigo Kakijima on the Drums. Former support guitarist Eric Zay played for rock group FAKE? , another former guitarist Tomoya Tsusui has his own band called Tobyas. MONORAL have collaborated with various other artists such as Fumiya Fujii Lisa from M-flo and Mondo Grosso , either through songwriting or performances.

In Popular Culture

Monoral's hit single, "Kiri", was used as opening theme for the anime series Ergo Proxy .

Discography

;Studio albums

Petrol (July 13, 2005)

Turbulence (July 4, 2007)

Via (October 29, 2008)

;EPs

In Stereo (July 25, 2001)

Ammonite (March 24, 2004)

;Singles

"Visions In My Head" (November 2, 2005)

"Kiri" (May 25, 2006)

"Tuesday" (May 9, 2007)

"Casbah" (July 30, 2008)

"70 Hours" (November 25, 2008)

"70 Hours(Remastered) (August 2010)

"Origins" (August 28, 2010)

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