Dominique Leone - A Wizard, a True Star

Has anyone heard his new album' Abstract Expression?' It has completely surprised me. At times I thought it was a new Rush album, then I thought of Tood Rundgren. Arena rock for the 2000's?

Dom's got lot's of Tood.

It's impressive how much fun it sounds like he's having in his music.

Back whenever, I proposed (and compiled) the ILX Vol 3 compilation.

Dom sent a track, I had to convert/re-record it, and when I played it back it ws a WHOA!! WTF??? moment.

See: track 10 here: http://www.go-quick.com/ILXVol3.html

Really enjoying the mp3's on Myspace.

Haven't heard the album yet, but saw him live a few months ago -- great set!

heard she's vv pretty

love this chick

her girlfriend's pretty awesome too.

She was great in 1900.

she was AWESOME in the '85 slam dunk contest

ps thanks Jacob!

youve got her confused with dominique dawes

loved her in adrian lyne's lolita

She's obviously just trying to cash in on her father's fame.

film director sergio?

I thought everyone knew that?

her sis was hott in jurassic park

III

It was great when she won X Factor two years ago.

Srs q: is that MIA singing backwards in the track on the ILX mix?

I love Dominique Leone's music. It sounds like someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of music, especially fucked up music, but without being academic about it or afraid to be derivative of something or not paying proper respect to something, or afraid of anything at all. Like, it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin, which is awesome and rare. Plus it mixes up styles all the time and never just for the sake of showing off some other thing it can pay homage to, which makes it exciting because as it unravels it is constantly revealing that at any moment it could go anywhere or use any technique up to including a million techniques that don't match at the same time or no technique at all AND all that said it still has an identifiable sound. Not that having an identifiable sound is all that important or anything, but I would say each album definitely has some consistency. For all of the influences going on, it sounds so NEW too. And all this stuff I'm talking about production techniques and influences and forward thinkingness are all distant subtext to the real important thing which is conveying a thought or emotion or both and even that is a distant subtext to just having fun making this shit.

I'm rambling. I gotta listen to this stuff again.

"I'm the Police" has a serious Jellyfish vibe. Great tune -- I could dig this.

Love the Debbie Reynolds song about her.

Sorry. Anyway I just went over to myspace and listened to a few tracks and they sounded pretty good.

filthy dylan, can i use that as my bio???

filty dylan singlehandedly caused me to pencil in a certain upcoming hemlock show on my calendar

Dominique: Totally. Also, come to Detroit some time.

this sounds dangerously close to being something i might like quite a lot

love this chick

^^^

the songs that sound like queen vocals make me :D

She's no Erin Sylvester.

She's no Aaron Copland.

Abstract Expression is glorious, especially the first half. All my favourite 70s acts wrapped up in one shiny parcel.

Also: so great to finally have "Nellie McKay" on CD.

In short, still hot.

I need to hear the whole album, but "I'm the Police" is fantastic. My knowledge of '70s AM radio pop is spotty, so I can only compare it to Ben Folds Five meets Max Tundra.

it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin

For what's worth, one of the albums of my 2009.

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voice of an angel

Touché.

Happy Birthday Dom!

thanks! I am eleventy five squared today

HB! I came to this thread 'coz I just heard the album for the first time and it's AWESOME! :D

At the moment, 'Sometimes You've Got To Be Happy'* and 'I'm The Police' are kinda rocking it hardest but this is great stuff.

*simultaneously the most Cardiacsy and XTC-y song here, hence flagrant LJ-bait, although obviously it carves its own path

Really regretting only nominating ITP for the '09 trax ballot, because SYGTBH is fucking excellent - and yeah, pretty much the hitherto-mythical midpoint of XTC and Cardiacs! With some American synth-rock thrown in.

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― filthy dylan, Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:46 AM (4 weeks ago)

Touché.

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Damn, I should be collecting royalties!

this album is rocking my world tonight

so hard to find a good street team

:D awesome dude! I'll get my contacts (well, Davek) on the case and give this a solid listen...

not gonna liveblog the whole thing now but I can't go to bed without saying how 40/60 is basically flat-out amazing and if it's not too double-edged a compliment pretty much how I WANT Animal Collective to sound in my fantasy dreamworld if they by some chance discovered one (1) melodic sensibility

instead I am giving the 2008 debut album a listen. holy goddamn! just sat through 'the return' with a big grin on my face - this stuff fits SQUARELY in a very special bracket of wonky-sprite melodicism and scattergun sonic experimentation that contains a great deal of my very favourite music

I still have the CD-R Dom sent me many years ago. It rules.

Loving this EP as well. Very good stuff.

march is just as good. how the fuck are you doing this, man?

the dub one is particularly fantastic, as is 'smear campaign'. and 'dinner with kris'. and 'fab train'. jesus. how many elves you got chained in yr homestudio???

thanks man. no elves, just outsourced malaysian prog children

You gotta start somewhere!

If he was writing and recording songs of this quality on a daily basis I would shave my head and camp on his lawn

OTM but still pretty awed and humbled if it's on a thrice-a-week basis.

Cosign. I hope imago's OK, was really enjoying the annotations!

can you get these tracks without paying a buck each? say a month's worth at a discounted price?

catching up on the end of march; sleazy comeback into write what u know is goddamn mighty, even if the former reminds me of machadaynu (in a good way)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwyuB8QKzBI

^^^some leonetastic chord-changes here, folks

May!

http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-you-facebook-etiquette

prolific dominique leone hits the web!!

http://www.sfchronicle.com/music/bandwidth/article/Prolific-Dominique-Leone-hits-the-Web-4624279.php

Bump.

http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/track/i-never-go-crazy

He's still keeping up with this?

Gor des blimeys!

fuck yes I am

that version is radically different than the 2011 demo with the Music In 12 Parts sample

http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/track/too-damn-small-feat-kevin-blechdom

^^ so good this one finally hit the wild

http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/track/dont-be-a-deterrent-2
http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/track/there-are-a-lot-of-people-who-can-do-as-much-as-i-can

and I miss the Nous Tambons Dans Elle voice

That Kevin B song is SO AMAZING ;_; ;_; aaaarrrrrrgghhhhh how does he DO IT

why not

http://roulette.org/events/fred-friths-gravity-2/

Fred Frith’s GRAVITY // Dominique Leone Band
Friday, September 20, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

thanks for listening ya'll!

yeah, abt that KevyB track, I recorded it at her old apartment in SF, and she didn't even hear the track, just sang the lines and I mixed it later. that's because she's basically a genius. Also, there is a version featuring Corey Fogel on drums, now drumming for Julia Holter, but it was lost in a hard drive crash :(

http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/track/jealousy

"Trying to make baroque pop that is also Black Metal (sonically speaking)"

One month to go!

http://dominiqueleone.com/2013/12/22/happy-december/

there's a lot to listen to there. trust this dude's opinions tbh and the only recommendation I'd say I'd heard is Government Plates

need to plough thru the 365 project bits I've not heard too

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http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/album/2014-15

"Feel What U Want"'s cyborg-Tuskisms and Toto-quoting are a treat.

I love Dominique Leone, one of the top 10 artists of the last 10 years imo

I (my gf) had a hankering for some DOMINOS PIZZA tonight (it's great!) and started typing it into my browser. My browser suggested instead I go to DOMINIQUE LEONE's Bandcamp, with the kind of ESP-laden flourish which browsers so often evince, for as I obeyed these technological instincts, much to my gf's tummy-rumbling chagrin, we discovered that the man himself has but two days ago released a new mini-album. Thanks to this serendipitous instance of online hunger, we've given it a listen. It's magnificent. Great job Dominique! Particularly smitten with 'Sunshine & Freedom Rock' and above all 'November' which is one of your/his best songs so far. All over in twenty minutes too! Now for pizza. Papa John's.

post of the year

I hear he wears Darkthrone shirts...

Looks like it, yes..

http://dominiqueleone.com/2013/12/22/happy-december/

ha thanks imago, hope you got your fill one way or the other

now do project 365 again with a child (congrats btw!)

ha! only docu-diaper-change form I'm afraid

and thank you!

btw i'd still like to go through 365 and somehow cull a 50 to 60 minute personal highlights package out of them then post my choices here - with your blessing of course

if you'd rather it was considered as a monolithic entity that's totally cool too!

no of course, I'd be honored. I watched a documentary called Indie Game last week. One of the developers of a very successful video game was complaining that the people who wrote good things about his game didn't like it for the same reasons he did. And I promise I will never be that guy.

cool! well, I'll be on it. that guy is always a pretentious jerk but fortunately I rarely run into him in my culture trawl

doing this now

only just realised that 'san francisco' is DL's own version (albeit re-recorded, coz he can)

ok i've been through the whole thing and chosen

it comes to 1h 50m, 28 tracks

i'll order it into a double-album and post the results here

whew

right so

DISC 1 ('the Cardiacsy one')

1. FTJSH (December 1)
2. Don't Be A Deterrent (August 2)
3. Awakening Of A Hedonist (July 25)
4. Numbers (April 9)
5. Those Productive Millennials (September 13)
6. I Never Go Crazy (August 13)
7. God Save Us (October 3)
8. Cycles (September 18)
9. Klepto (May 7)
10. Sensory Neurons (September 3)
11. Jon Is An Obsessive Type (September 15)
12. Ring (May 28)
13. You're Hiding Something From Me (June 1)
14. Guiwenneth (January 28)

DISC 2 ('the melancholy one')

1. Glamour (September 8)
2. MC Ballad 2 (January 5)
3. Wish You Could Be Here (February 17)
4. Sister (August 10)
5. You Can Never, Ever Stop Me From Loving You (February 14, obviously lol)
6. Tired Of Thinking About Myself (July 29)
7. Tumbling Down (October 6)
8. I Will (May 22)
9. Robin O (February 16)
10. July Bore (July 31)
11. Intentions (Tea Or Iron) (October 30)
12. Uses (February 10)
13. Moses & Melvis (January 13)
14. OLTB (October 29)

A frankly brilliant double-album, as one would expect from a trawl through 365 songs by the talented Mr Leone. Quite happy with how this sequencing has turned out (others may disagree and make their own?) My favourite tracks overall - well it's hard to look past that mid-February run really, but everything here is wonderful. Apologies to the months of March and November; the latter would have been represented but its title-track has already found fame and fortune on DL's own 365 best-of (a fairly restrained 7-track mini-album...)

https://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/track/david-lee-roth

lol is that your OPO

it's a demonstration that he's not an obsessive type

xp - happy belated birthday

ha holy shit thanks for sifting thru all that imago! who knew I had a double album in me?

now u have to rerecord all the fuzzy tascam ones and release it btw

noted ;)

Suggestions for pop acts DL can reboot, following the astonishing success of Max Tundra's Daphne & Celeste

I'll start with...Rebecca Black

No wait...the Fast Food Rockers. THERE

He's back!

https://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/album/dad-rock

She, shurely?

They

I saw her just last week at the Astoria Park Carnival bemoaning the fact that their little one wasn't tall enough for the rides, same as mine, not that mine is ready for the rides after a fateful trip on the Palisades Mall Carousel ("hold me tight, daddy, hold me"). Now my daughter likes to look at Carousels and discuss which figure she'll ride on when she's "older and ready". Dominique seemed happy with daughter and a unicorn won at a fishing amusement. /queens dad rock scene report.