Sono "Homicide"
I guess this is sort of a reverse TOMT. I know the artist and song title. What I don't know is anything else about this band whatsoever. I also can't recall precisely where I found the file as I saved this it around twenty five years ago. I was never really into the mellow, more emo stuff at the time so the closest comparison I can make is to Jawbreaker (I do like "Shield Your Eyes" but mostly because I associate it with memories of a girl I was infatuated with).
Anyway, at the time there were a lot of web 1.5 (?) sites. Not everyone had settled into CMS solutions, MySpace, LiveJournal, etc. Some of the really cool kids were picking up Flash if only to embed audio into their sites. That's how I nabbed this. I remember a mostly black background site with yellow buttons/links and a yellow top banner with an integrated flash audio player. One of the other songs in their rotation, if I'm not mixing memories, was "Lebanese Blonde" by Thievery Corporation. Not relevant, unless that jogs anyone else's memory, but possibly what led me to finding SomaFM.
I can date it to around 2000 because the audio had Macromedia Flash 5 data embedded or vice versa. I extracted the SWF and it's just the text "Sono" with the audio playing. Tried running strings on it, hoping for URLs or whatever, but the only metadata is the artist and title. So I separated the mp3 audio and threw it on catbox.
If anyone knows anything else about this band/song, I'd love to hear it. Were they ever on mp3.com? Any demo tapes floating around? Anything. I can't imagine many (any?) other people even have this track at this point. I've got nothing searching the lyrics. Musicbrainz failed me (although I'm admittedly not skilled in searching it)...
I think my only real hope is that this reaches someone once associated with the band or someone that ran a long-forgotten website a quarter of a century ago.
Edit: this was supposed to have a link attached but I'm not seeing it, so - [Sono "Homicide"](https://files.catbox.moe/mk2ko1.mp3)
Anyway, at the time there were a lot of web 1.5 (?) sites. Not everyone had settled into CMS solutions, MySpace, LiveJournal, etc. Some of the really cool kids were picking up Flash if only to embed audio into their sites. That's how I nabbed this. I remember a mostly black background site with yellow buttons/links and a yellow top banner with an integrated flash audio player. One of the other songs in their rotation, if I'm not mixing memories, was "Lebanese Blonde" by Thievery Corporation. Not relevant, unless that jogs anyone else's memory, but possibly what led me to finding SomaFM.
I can date it to around 2000 because the audio had Macromedia Flash 5 data embedded or vice versa. I extracted the SWF and it's just the text "Sono" with the audio playing. Tried running strings on it, hoping for URLs or whatever, but the only metadata is the artist and title. So I separated the mp3 audio and threw it on catbox.
If anyone knows anything else about this band/song, I'd love to hear it. Were they ever on mp3.com? Any demo tapes floating around? Anything. I can't imagine many (any?) other people even have this track at this point. I've got nothing searching the lyrics. Musicbrainz failed me (although I'm admittedly not skilled in searching it)...
I think my only real hope is that this reaches someone once associated with the band or someone that ran a long-forgotten website a quarter of a century ago.
Edit: this was supposed to have a link attached but I'm not seeing it, so - [Sono "Homicide"](https://files.catbox.moe/mk2ko1.mp3)