J.J. Sonick

jjsonick — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:50:19 +0000

J.J. Sonick (aka Josh Lawrence) lives in San Francisco, CA and collaborates long-distance with Eddie P. (aka Karl Eifrig) in the bands New Old Men and Kitchen Sink, as well as playing with Stompin’ Jim Hambone (Craig Higdon) in the moonshined-up High Country Low Lifes. In the early 90’s he played in the bands Pookie and Avijit.

He produces the monthly Mozomedia Music Podcast with the assistance of Craig Higdon, who plays the D.J. Harris, Tom Merritt, who brings the SubBrilliant News, and the works of many musicians and friends.

Songs

Never Get Clean –

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Sonick: “I had the music for Never Get Clean recorded and the whole song in my head for years, but only recently (as of 5/09) recorded the vocals while housesitting for a friend, possibly disturbing the downstairs neighbor.”

Diwata — a custom song request

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Kai Balbin from Orange County, CA suggested the song title ‘Diwata’, which is a Filipino word for ‘goddess’ or ‘fairy’, and requested the song sound like ‘maybe sigur ros meet radiohead meet the album leaf/roots of orchis.’

Cultivations

Sonick: “I don’t play any of the music on what I call cultivations – instead midi tracks are computer generated from various programs, and my main work is in arranging (choosing the virtual instruments and mix) and pruning and splicing (tweaking/deleting midi notes). Cultivations are also my way of cheating to make up for my deficiencies. Someday I hope to be able to play the stuff I’ve ‘grown’ via cultivation.”

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J.J. Sonick

Songs

Cultivations