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Sonmi

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About Me

sonmi is the result of the musical efforts of julia sonmi heglund, with the occasional aid and musical consultation from partner-in-crime, boyfriend, and midi-wizard, alex martin degroot.

CONTACT
for general inquiries: [email protected]
for booking inquiries: [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/27/2004
Band Website: sonmisonmi.com
Band Members: secret magicians
Influences: pee wee's playhouse, grimm's fairy tales, stories about giants, godzilla vs. the smog monster
Sounds Like: pocket symphonies

My Blog

the body in burlap - other sonmi music

this is my stab at soundtrack music. it's a film my friend made last year called "the body in burlap". i do all the background jams. bloggin out,julia...
Posted by Sonmi on Wed, 14 May 2008 02:00:00 PST

we’re back

it seems we're playing shows again. we have a new setup, and some new songs. hopefully more songs are to come.
Posted by Sonmi on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:02:00 PST

goodbye for a while

hello,i (julia) have been focusing more on my visual art lately, so i'm taking a break from sonmi music for a while. this means that i won't be playing shows at the moment; mainly because i want to pl...
Posted by Sonmi on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:18:00 PST

tiniest tour '07

our first tour was awesome, guys. we spent the weekend with these dudes: erik (1/2 of umbros), channing (mc cat genius), stephen (1/2 of umbros/obelisk)   a little summary of things... friday: m...
Posted by Sonmi on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:02:00 PST

sonmi and threadless.com

in case y'all haven't heard of threadless.com, it's this nice little (big) t-shirt company where you can submit a t-shirt design, which is then voted on by the general public and has the potential to ...
Posted by Sonmi on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:39:00 PST

sonmi vids!

here are some videos taken from our 10/29 show with gang gang dance!"oh crumbs / pss-50" "bear's castle" ...
Posted by Sonmi on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:34:00 PST

flyer archive

flyers for our previous shows! ...
Posted by Sonmi on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:56:00 PST

hittin' the charts in japan!

"parallel lines are bad" was at no. 1 on the college radio charts of fukuoka, japan the week of august 26th, 2006, just a few months after its release on finderpop label. what an exciting run tha...
Posted by Sonmi on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:29:00 PST

"parallel lines are bad" on finderpop compilation

finderpop label, based in japan, has put out an excellent compilation of various musicians of the folk/experimental/electronic sound. seriously, there is some really good stuff on there! i am very for...
Posted by Sonmi on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:49:00 PST

old songs

here are some older songs/experiments that will most likely never be used on anything . . .2004to the skysounding somethingsleft stage handtheremin (playing around with the theremin, while alex plays ...
Posted by Sonmi on Sun, 07 May 2006 05:20:00 PST