Dominique Leone - A Wizard, a True Star

abstract expression is one of my favorite albums, full stop

one song a day for one year -- leaning into it now

http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/album/february

It's been great. Snagged every one.

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

if you live in europe you can see dleone LIVE IN CONCERT this month

i miss him already

abstract expression's a great album, love her

you never her

I wonder if this guy has ever made a bad decision

pretty sure he's gotten at least one parking ticket, so yes.

if you live in europe you can see dleone LIVE IN CONCERT this month

Where tho? It's pretty big... Europe.

oh my god he actually did this

jan 1st and 2nd are both great. holy shit imagine every track is this good. what will I do? how will I cope? I wanna *reduce*, *compartmentalise*. guess this is the antidote to all that

if dominique's listening I'd also be very interested to hear about the creative process for this - how do you force 365 songs out while maintaining high artistic standards? do you simply have to enter an ultra-creative zone where every single musical idea is engaged with enthusiastically and constructively - almost as if the project is to turn any and every idea into a good song? and if so, does this get exhausting? has this been in the works for a while? do you fear slipping into formulas? what methods do you employ for creative invigoration? how difficult is it really - was the timescale stretched enough that only one or two songs composed per day was, given existence within aforesaid 'zone', not that strenuous a task? regardless of all of these questions, this project has my ultimate respect

jan 3 is even better than the other two. my god.

Scary.

two things -

1) I have to go to fucking work :(

2) Can I just pre-emptively award the whole project Album Of The Year? In as many senses as feels appropriate :)

What the ...

Scary is right, I got two weeks into February and every song, everything is obscenely good

mozart-satie-ilm-progression :)

i have to say that i accidentally started "UB313" in two different tabs, about 30 seconds apart, and it was awesome.

this...this is *phenomenal*

i can't even begin to say how happy this is making me

here's the info on dominique's tour!

FEB 2013 UNNATURAL WAYS EUROPEAN TOUR

Ava Mendoza- guitar/vox
Dominique Leone- synthesizers
Nick Tamburro (The Dead Science)- drums

2/6 TOURS, FR @ Le Petit Facheux w/ Shampoo Meuchiine
2/8 NANTES, FR @ Espace Diderot w/ Elwood & Guthrie
2/9 PARIS, FR @ La Societe de Curiosites w/ Berangere Maximin
2/10 WURZBURG, DE@ Immerhin, presented by Freakshow Wurzburg w/ Cowboys from Hell
2/11 VIENNA, AU @ Rhiz w/ Bulbul
2/12 LJUBLJANA, SI @ Menza (Metelkova)
2/13 GRAZ, AU @ Club Waakum, presented by Interpentration
2/14 VICENZA, IT @ Centro Stabile di Cultura
2/15 9 pm FREISING, DE @ Abseits
2/16 9 pm HANOVER, DE@ Sturmglocke w/ Sean Noonan Trio
2/17 MAINZ, DE @ Zitadelle Mainz, Gewolbekeller
2/18 OSTRAVA @ PLAN B w/ Massola (Jap)
2/19 CESKE BUDEJOVICE, CZ @ Ostinato
2/20 PRAGUE, CZ @ Nova Synteza

come to britain, yall can crash on my couch

onto february and it's arguably getting even better. although it has the almost-annoying habit of constructing something totally compelling and brilliant that's only 1 minute long. which isn't so bad, i guess, because wanting more and all that

my questions upthread stand, but i guess when you're clearly having this much fun making music the inspiration can't be hard to come by. also really glad that the DL track from beforehand that seems to be echoed most here is 'sometimes you've got to be happy', which is possibly (imo) the pinnacle of his art until now ('nous tombons dans elle' and '40/60' can play too)

february has been straight-up unbelievable so far (now onto 'paul and diane - i believe in you' after an astonishing 5-track run of jawdropping splendour). this might be my favourite music from the past few years. sorry to be going all multipost hypeman over this but i've got the fever, got it bad

ok techno heist of 'you can never, ever stop me from loving you' = i am hyperventilating

won't say any more. shouldn't. ok, will. i'm blown. i'm...i'm...(can someone else take this)

I know some of these go back to at least 2005-6 -- there were maybe three or four albums worth of tracks he had in the can right after finishing that 'debut' CD of his, all in the vein of that one. so while there's a bit of cleaning house going on, a lot of this stuff is daily brand new and I think some of the old tracks are getting a final few sprinkles before being mastered and sent out the door, so this is an intense effort

'debut' is in quotes because there are a few pre-2005 albums that are raw and utterly crazy and I'm looking forward to hearing them in the shuffle

signed, resident dleone archivist / pal

I'm somewhat relieved to hear this. If he was writing and recording songs of this quality on a daily basis I would shave my head and camp on his lawn

yeah don't worry about it, it's more like a tri-weekly basis

definition 1 of triweekly

He supplied a track for the third ILX compilation which was quite jaw-dropping when I played it on receipt, and was also surprised that it wasn't immediately included in his next album.

Dude is prolific and impressive..

come to britain

Seconded

Ah so these aren't even all done yet? I'd totally make a birthday request, except that my birthday is already amply catered-for by Wish You Could Be Here, which is heaps and heaps of fun and whose lead into the final chorus is possibly my favourite lead into a chorus EVER! I believe I entirely laughed out loud at the brilliance of it.

It's been great. Smanged every one.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, February 4, 2013 8:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tsk.

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!