Sonikku - Joyful DeathI love songs that make you want to cry and dance at the same time," says Tony Donson, the London based musician who records as Sonniku. That sense of unfettered release and liberation drives his debut album, Joyful Death. A fluent, fertile and full color hybrid of vibrant Italo house, liquid synth pop, righteous disco and French philosophical asides, it signals Sonikku transition from feted DJ to fully formed dancefloor artist. Featuring vocals from

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Esteemed British composer

The single follows Token's October release "High Heels

winning the BBC Music Magazine Award

It is swinging and at the same time open to the individual interpretations of both the listeners and of the musicians

while the three movements of the jazz-tinged Second Violin Sonata are dedicated to her composition teacher William Bolcom

The lyrical content explores the definition of nihilism as a philosophy and a way of life

which date mostly from the turn of the century

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especially die-hard fans of death and doom metal

brain scrambling and waiting for the final Big Crunch/Rip/Bounce of the universe