Dominique: Totally. Also, come to Detroit some time.
― filthy dylan, Monday, 23 November 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
this sounds dangerously close to being something i might like quite a lot
― my fave thing to do on the computer is what im doing right now (acoleuthic), Monday, 23 November 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
love this chick
^^^
― señor wig day (get bent), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
the songs that sound like queen vocals make me :D
― e honda v. (m bison), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
She's no Erin Sylvester.
― O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
She's no Aaron Copland.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
it's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groinit's music with a huge brain but it still has a groin
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
For what's worth, one of the albums of my 2009.
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
voice of an angel
― bum-sniff deviant (cutty), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Touché.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Happy Birthday Dom!
― sarahel, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks! I am eleventy five squared today
― Dominique, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― everybody hauritz (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― your favorite toy dinosaur ruined my asshole (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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― filthy dylan, Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:46 AM (4 weeks ago)
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Damn, I should be collecting royalties!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is rocking my world tonight
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
so hard to find a good street team
― Dominique, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
:D awesome dude! I'll get my contacts (well, Davek) on the case and give this a solid listen...
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I still have the CD-R Dom sent me many years ago. It rules.
Loving this EP as well. Very good stuff.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
reading reviews of this online it just appals me how people can hate on anything that has 'too many ideas' as if this is a bad thing per se - or that because it has elements of prog or kraut it's flirting with embarrassment
if it's music made with blatantly wilful design by someone clearly in control of their own creative process, just tell me if you like it or not, don't justify its shortcomings unless you have a rock-solid argument as to why its narrative doesn't work
it is the fault of such critical tendencies, to carp rather than to describe the adventure, to sneer at perceived over-reaching rather than to perceive what is being reached for, that prevents more artists casting off their chains and making music with the exuberance and creativity they're capable of
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the chains of good taste
(no zing implied to dominique btw, listening to the ep now and it sounds great)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I think this is an interesting topic. Obviously in many cases, exhibiting close control while concentrating on a more 'limited' set of ideas is ideal and makes for music that is both effective and thrilling - but if one's mode is adventure-pop, then why not wander, why not explode?
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lol totally not surprised at louis loving this, it is absolutely yr thing. also he puts on a sweet live show! some truly heroic drumming going on when we played with him
― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Come to England, Dominique!
Have been listening to 'The Return' on repeat pretty much all day (with the occasional break for 'Nous Tombons Dans Elle'). I don't know if this makes me mad or simply a little askew.
Here's the Myspace of a guy I've met a few times IRL with a VERY similar set of interests to D Leone - much more classical pop, much less sonic wizardry, but worth a check if you like this stuff: http://www.myspace.com/muddysuzuki
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm trying not to overdo this but I can't get over just how good 40/60 is - I've been rocking it almost non-stop for a couple of days now and running it through my head when I've not been near a computer - it's like musical crack to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eew38kFQtUY
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Sunday, 25 July 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
haha thanks! just had first rehearsal w/august tour band, and this tune is gonna be fun!!
― Dominique, Sunday, 25 July 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
40/60 is magnifique....can't believe I didn't listen to it earlier.
In terms of 'getting the word out', I don't see how this won't appeal to the Max Tundra crew.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 26 July 2010 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Mr Tundra played a track from this on his radio show on Sat and very good it sounded too. Must give the rest a listen; thank you for the link.
― piskie sour (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 26 July 2010 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep not hearing Max Tundra's show...is there a place where they're all podcast?
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 July 2010 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
new yorkers please come see me and my friends on saturday :)
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5061/coco66.jpg
― Dominique, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I will attend in spirit.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
no longer has a beard fyi
― sarahel, Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck it, it's my thread
Today is Igor Stravinsky’s 129th birthday. Were the legendary Russian composer alive today, well, he’d probably be kept under constant watch, donned in thin layers of radiation-resistant cloth, and under many layers of glass. But were he functional, he’d likely be pretty curious about an event happening this summer in the Bay Area. In short, we’d like to formally announce a new recording of his classic Les Noces (The Wedding), and two performances that will be among the most unique and inspired recreations of the work.
So without further ado, here’s all the info about our Stravinsky cover thing!
NEW RECORDING
LES NOCES (2011)http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/album/les-noces
DOWNLOAD for FREE!
Produced by Dominique LeoneKanoko Nishi, Regina Schaffer: pianosNicole Ginelli: cover art
ABOUT LES NOCES
Stravinsky (1882-1971) composed his ballet Les Noces (“The Wedding”) during 1913-1917, and as with The Rite of Spring, Petrushka and The Firebird, premiered it with the Ballets Russes group and choreography by Bronislava Nijinska. Its “story” is but scenes from a typical Russian wedding, with characters such as the bride, groom and surrounding family fretting about the event, and each other.
Unlike the composer’s previous works, Les Noces was originally realized through a decidedly non-symphonic arrangement of four pianos, percussion, and a vocal ensemble of four soloists and chorus. Stripped down to these most basic elements, the intensity of Stravinsky’s composition shines through like a razor-sharp beacon. Rhythms pound furiously, vocal lines criss-cross before the storm of percussion and pianos lest they be flattened by the fiery stomp. Les Noces is often considered the last great piece of Stravinsky’s “Russian” period, before the composer dove into other idioms, such as neo-classicism and 12-tone music.
Another interesting aspect of Les Noces is that before deciding on his four-piano arrangement, Stravinsky had ideas of using the “pianola”, a mechanical piano that could play pre-recorded music via metallic rolls. Indeed, the pianola was closer to modern-day sequencer/synthesizer in that its player could record parts that were unplayable by a human being. As a composer, Stravinsky was naturally attracted to the instrument as a tool for composition and performance. Pierre Boulez premiered a version of the score using pianola in 1981, and though the definitive 1923 score with four pianos is the one most often performed today, it is easy to hear the multi-layered genius at work in the piece and imagine the possibilities off pulling it off with something rather less than a full-size orchestra and chorus.
ABOUT THE NEW RECORDING
Enter Dominique Leone, Kanoko Nishi and Regina Schaffer. With only two pianos, one singer and a computer, their Les Noces is realized as forcefully and true to its spirit as any prior recording. And note: this is no “redux” or re-imagining of the piece. Leone, Nishi and Schaffer have stayed entirely true to the score, but simplifying four pianos down to two, and with Leone singing all vocal parts with just a little help from a single pitch-shifter for soprano and bass parts. This is as inspired and magnificently irreverent performance of Stravinsky’s work as has ever been created—but don’t take our word for it, check the link!
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
Maybeck Recital Hall, also known as Maybeck Studio for Performing Arts, is located inside the Kennedy-Nixon House in Berkeley, California, USA. It was built in 1914 by Bernard Maybeck. The hall seats up to 50 people and was designed upon commission for the Nixon family, local arts patrons who wanted a live-in studio for their daughter Milda's piano teacher, Mrs. Alma Kennedy. The room is paneled in unfinished clear-heart redwood, which contributes to an unusually rich and warm, yet bright and clear acoustic quality. There are two grand pianos in the space: a Yamaha S-400, and a Yamaha C7. Maybeck originally designed the space to accommodate an 1898 7-foot Bechstein.
In 1987, the house was purchased by jazz pianist Dick Whittington, who opened the hall for public recitals. Between 1989 and 1995, Concord Records produced 42 solo piano recitals in Maybeck Recital Hall. Each recital featured a different jazz pianist, and all 42 recordings were released on CD. Concord also recorded 10 jazz duets at Maybeck during the same time period, which were also released as a series of CDs sold by Concord.
The Maybeck will host Les Noces on July 29 and 30, 2011 at 8 p.m.
― Dominique, Friday, 17 June 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
dominique leone sounds so hot as a soprano
― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Friday, 17 June 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
srsly tho this is awesome and you know it
― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Friday, 17 June 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to this yesterday, very cool.
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Friday, 17 June 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
thanks ya'll!
― Dominique, Friday, 17 June 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
tl;dr
― James & Bobby Quantify (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 June 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
But will try to listen to tonight ;)
― James & Bobby Quantify (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 June 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Very exciting! Will listen soon.
― JacobSanders, Friday, 17 June 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
love DL in, broadly speaking, zeuhl mode. so, I'm obviously all over this one. great stuff!
― original bgm, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Absolutely loving this - looking forward to photographs/&c of the live performance as I'm in the wrong hemisphere.
― etc, Thursday, 23 June 2011 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
"the return" is one of the best epics in recent years. damn
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
abstract expression is one of my favorite albums, full stop
― Lamborghini mercy, yo sledge she's so percy (m bison), Monday, 19 November 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
one song a day for one year -- leaning into it now
http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/album/february
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like it, yes..
http://dominiqueleone.com/2013/12/22/happy-december/
― Mark G, Friday, 13 November 2015 10:10 (eight years ago) link
ha thanks imago, hope you got your fill one way or the other
― Dominique, Friday, 13 November 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
now do project 365 again with a child (congrats btw!)
― imago, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
ha! only docu-diaper-change form I'm afraid
― Dominique, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
and thank you!
― Dominique, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
if you'd rather it was considered as a monolithic entity that's totally cool too!
― imago, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
doing this now
only just realised that 'san francisco' is DL's own version (albeit re-recorded, coz he can)
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
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
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Sunday, 2 April 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
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...)
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 3 April 2017 02:21 (seven years ago) link
https://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/track/david-lee-roth
― Milton Parker, Monday, 3 April 2017 07:48 (seven years ago) link
lol is that your OPO
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 3 April 2017 08:16 (seven years ago) link
it's a demonstration that he's not an obsessive type
xp - happy belated birthday
― sarahell, Monday, 3 April 2017 10:57 (seven years ago) link
ha holy shit thanks for sifting thru all that imago! who knew I had a double album in me?
― Dominique, Monday, 3 April 2017 13:16 (seven years ago) link
now u have to rerecord all the fuzzy tascam ones and release it btw
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 3 April 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link
noted ;)
― Dominique, Monday, 3 April 2017 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Suggestions for pop acts DL can reboot, following the astonishing success of Max Tundra's Daphne & Celeste
I'll start with...Rebecca Black
― imago, Friday, 6 April 2018 09:21 (six years ago) link
No wait...the Fast Food Rockers. THERE
― imago, Friday, 6 April 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
He's back!
https://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/album/dad-rock
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 June 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
She, shurely?
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
They
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 15 June 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link