Artist description Sonora on a full moon, harvest yellow in the blue.

Music Style whatever tilts our pinball machine

Musical Influences Closedown, MBV, Cocteau Twins, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Flaming Lips, The Sea and Cake

Similar Artists My Bloody Valentine, Closedown, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins, The Sea and Cake, Flaming Lips

Artist History we died a couple times before. and i suppose it's possible that we'll die a couple times again before all this is OVER (acting under the assumption - which may be presumptuous - that there is an end to ALL THIS). which is not to say that we *literally* died. i'm speaking purely figuratively/artistically/spiritually/metaphysically. to do otherwise would imply that we're somehow immortal. which we're not. we are - first and foremost - human beings. of course, as little as we actually know about *all that* (i.e., the meaning of life, death, stonehenge, and all the rest of the inexplicables), maybe each death is a *real* death, each rebirth a genuine miracle. for what else do we have to celebrate, if not our obnoxiously unending ability to live inside a completely fabricated existence? you are, after all, reading a series of alphanumeric symbols that only actually *exist* in a completely virtual environment - a nonspace - and you only associate any meaning with them because someone told you that *happy* sounds like a smile feels. so we don't take any of this for granted. we died. burned down. black and crisp. but eventually the ashes fell off, and the wind blew them away. the night ended, and the sun came out. it cooked the soot and sand to our boots to remind us that we were something else before what we are now, lest we forget that our memories and experiences of what we were make us who we are now. and we got up and walked out alive. we are SONORA. enjoy the noise.

Group Members Wil Richardson | Dana Clow | Shaun Peppy

Instruments Guitars. Basses. Drums. Vocals. Guitar effects (plenty please, with curry, coriander and a dash of cinnamon

Albums SONORA (High In The Sky, 2001) | Road-44 (High In The Sky/Sandgazing Collective, 2002)

Press Reviews Kevin Shields, the genius behind My Bloody Valentine's Loveless release, may be missing in non-action and Cocteau Twins may now be defunct, but the fuzzy, discordant shoe-gazer scene they helped create has no been forgotten. Following in these hallowed steps are bands such as Ottawa's Sonora. Sonora represents the harder edge of the scene; the band's sound plays with the juxtaposition of ambience and gritty anthemic themes. Punching through the sonic haze created by the members' instruments are the fully-fledged stories and sometimes-political messages the Sonora folks feel compelled, almost emotionally driven, to relay." "Soundbites" - The Ottawa X-Press, August, 09 2001

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Location Ottawa, Ontario - Canada

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