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| Location: | Kyoto |
| Country: |  Japan |
| Last Login: | Aug 8, 2008 (29 days back) |
About Me |
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| Sonoko biographie Sonoko is from Kyoto, Japan. In her own words: "Even when I was very little, I liked to make music like most kids play games. I always liked stories, movies and music boxes. I really started to think about my own music seriously when I was sixteen. In 1984, I sent my first demo to three labels that I liked a lot: cherry red records, crammed discs and crepescule." At that time, Cherry Red wrote Sonoko to say they liked her demo. They offered to make a record and arranged for her to go into studio with Morgan Fisher who was then in Japan. Despite a lot of studio work, the chemistry just didn't seem to be there. About the same time, Sonoko met Honeymoon Killers who were on tour in japan. They really liked her music and persuaded her to move to Crammed Discs. In 1986 she went to Brussels to work with the Crammed team. Work on the album was done from July to December,1986, at Daylight Studio in Brussels with Gilles Martin as Sound Engineer. Most of the cuts were produced by Colin Newman with "French Touch" by Aksak Maboul (Marc Hollander and Vincent Kenis). Addtional keyboads were performed by Irish composer John Bonnar who has worked with Brian Eno and Dead Can Dance. In 1987 the album ""La Debutante" came out. It got very good press from papers and magazines like Liberation and Melody Maker who cited its provocative inventiveness and the crystal voice of the singer. Despite uneven distribution and the fact that the European release was only available in vinyl (no CD, they were just the new thing at that time), the album proved to be a long-lasting seller and has built up a large following of die-hard fans. It's become an underground classic and collector's item. After making "La Debutante", Sonoko lived in Paris for seven years, in the 14e arrondissemnt on Passage D'enfer, and then returned to Kyoto. She is currently working with artists in Kyoto and Tokyo on new recordings. |
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Music:Member Since: 11/20/2007Band Website: sonokosite.com Band Members: Sonoko in the press La Débutante... in which the lines between hilarity and tears is shaken like a dusty rug ... She breathes rather than sighs, of the way she sees Europe, which is idealised, stylish and reviviscent.... She covers Suicide's Cheri Cheri and David Lynch's In Heaven from Eraserhead. She pays homage to Brigitte Bardot and Robbe-Grillet's Last Year In Marienbad. Ultimately the existential rendering of I Love How You Love Me would take the biscuit were it not topped by her annunciation of the balcony scene from Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet. To hear this combination of jingle bells backwards and her unwittingly slack-lipped recital - "A wose by any arthur name wet smell is sweet"- is to hear the future of my highly discerning musical taste. Her own lullabies are zonked-out nursery rhymes for the terminally abstract. Sonoko, if such an entity really exists, may disappear from the face of the earth next week, but she's gasped and dreamed one of the most implausible records of recent times. Highly recommended. (Melody Maker by Chris Roberts in 1988) "Destined to become an underground classic from the late '80s... Her voice works like a charm. She uses lots of references (classical, Japanese, French, filmic, literary), but always consistently. 19 bewitching songs, impeccably enhanced by chief Wire man Colin Newman's delicate production work" (Libération, France, '89) "Sonoko's musical postcards... She lovingly collects images from the Old Continent's culture and weaves them into a patchwork made of 19 miniatures. Disarmingly charming, with something of the candour of the Sixties" (Les Inrockuptibles, France, '89) "Cet album est la meilleure surprise qu'on puisse faire ce mois-ci à un ami cher. Grâce à lui, il saura enfin l'effet que fait la France aux jeunes filles qui vivent à l'ombre des cerisiers en fleur" (Actuel, France, '89) "A little girl's round and white face surrounded by paper angels, a dried flower in the hair, an old yellowed photograph, a fan and a cassette tape, that which she had one day sent from her Kyoto suburb to the Crammed label in Brussels. " (Max, France, '89) 【SONOKO profile】: http://www.crammed.be/crammed/110/index.htm/ 【CRAMMED GLOBAL SOUNDCLASH PAGE】: http://www.crammed.be/crammed/soundclash/index.htm/ 【SONOKO INTERVIEW BY ALL ABOUT JAPAN】: http://allabout.co.jp/entertainment/technopop/closeup/CU2003 0611E/index.htm/ Record Label: CRAMMED DISCS Type of Label: Indie |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Alternative / Pop / Electro) |
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Crammed Discs, Aksak Maboul, Wire, The Honeymoon Killers, DJ Morpheus, Malka Spigel, Suicide, Delphine Seyrig, To Remember Delphine Seyrig, Tuxedomoon, Karl Biscuit, claude Arto, Gilles MARTIN, moondog, Nijinsky, Hommage á ROMY, Truman Capote, Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Elisa Point & Jacques Duvall, midori hirano, The Sane Society, JEAN-LOUIS LESACHER, Pat Stanley, Capri c'est fini, RUBYORLA , Les Connexions, urban sax, Natalia, Jim Reiske Music, concentricity, PFÄGEN, ensemble Nimbus, Die alten Maschinen, Leon, pigaldi & les 5 ou sisters, hidesumix, vitacola.drink.to, OLIVIER can't dance, Carlo D’Anna, yuremi, nathalie, NIGHT GERM, nobuko hori, Zoro & Zora, \, chouchou
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