2012….The Year End List to end all Year End Lists

   Everyone does their year-end music lists but instead of boring you to tears with dissecting every record to death I thought I'd just mention a few records that came out in 2012 that moved me enough to give a second or third spin (sometimes even a fourth)…so here we go

Aaron Mangoff – "You and I"

Cold specks – "I Predict a Graceful Expulsion"

BidiniBand – "In The Rock Hall"

Diamond Rings – "Free Dimensional"

D-Sisive – "Jonestown 3: The Dream is Over"

Grimes – "Visions"

Indian Handcrafts – "Civil Disobedience For Losers"

Modern Superstitions – "Modern Superstitions"

PS I Love You – "Death Dreams"

Scott Cooper – "quiet company"

Yacht Club – "Nonnavera Mixtape"

Looking over my list I just noticed that they are all Canadian....what does that tell ya ?

Thanks to everyone that followed the Blog (even after the name change) this past year…I hope to take Sonic More Music farther in the coming year so look out you have been warned.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

D-Sisive | Jonestown 3.The Dream Is Over ......an email from D-Sisive

D-Sisive | Jonestown 3.The Dream Is Over

Album Producer: Muneshine


Music has never been my therapy.

Maybe it’s because my past tragedies are the foundation for most of my work, but I’ve never been able to relate to an artist who credits his|her music as therapeutic. I’ve always had to dig. Time travel. Back to memories I wished I’d never remember again. Fortunately, and unfortunately, that’s never the case. We can suppress them. Pack them away in Tupperware. But they always come back. In dreams. The shower. During movies or songs. Smells. Meals. Something always seems to trigger them when you least expect it. This is why creating, intentionally fishing, could never be therapeutic for me.

Banana Bread [a song on Jonestown 3] was inspired by a fan’s letter telling me she asked her grandmother to pray for me. The opening lines brought me to an afternoon I spent with my father. He was telling me about the day my grandmother, his mother, died, and how he morbidly felt satisfaction. I felt sickened, and let him know. He told me ‘don’t make judgment calls on what you haven’t lived.’ I never took into consideration what he was put through. My grandmother was an alcoholic of the worst kind. She was also the most beautiful person when sober. But that’s always the case.

Writing about that story reminded me of what I went through with my father, who also eventually died because of alcoholism. History repeated itself. I didn’t experience a tenth of what he did. He was distant, but wasn’t abusive. He always made sure I was taken care of, but was selfish with his self-abuse. That’s what I had to deal with. Revisiting this was far from therapeutic. Nothing was lifted off my chest. In fact it made me feel worse. But I believe this is necessary for my art.

“Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can’t bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.” -Julian Schnabel

This has always been my process. And always will. If you want to dance, listen to the radio. Escape. We all need to dance at some point in our lives. Even I’ve done the Lambada once or twice, as horrifying as that is to imagine. But we also need to come back down. And I’m fortunate enough to say I’ve been there waiting for you when you landed.

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

And here she is...

The end.
Derek.

D-Sisive | Jonestown 3.The Dream Is Over 
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Asian Elvis [the mixtape] by D-Sisive [aka Derek Christoff]

    I don't think I have to say anything about D-Sisive that hasn't already been said; his talent speaks for itself…as one of the most prolific artists in Canada or anywhere he has now dropped another project on us that I can say takes Hip-Hop back to its roots where it all began…..

TCB Derek

Some upcoming live D-Sisive dates are:

08/11/12	Marysville, ON	Wolfe Island Music Festival
08/16/12	Owen Sound, ON	Other Folk Music Festival
09/13/12	Timmins, ON	Club 147
09/14/12	Sudbury, ON	Cranky Joe’s
09/16/12	Barrie, ON	Club Ash

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

D-Sisive "The Busker"

  

                                                        

         New track from D-Sisive "The Busker", it's from his upcoming release Run With the Creeps (The D-Luxe Edition) which you can get on April the 10th.....D just can do no wrong


Below is the video for the track directed by the multi talented Daniel Jardine

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

@dsisive

 http://www.runwiththecreeps.com/