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    DISCOVER ‘Ping Pong’ by Stereolab

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    Posted on 30 March 2021

    Tim Gane (Domino Publishing) and Laetitia Sadier (Complete):

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery 

    Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    You see, the recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry for, things will look after th...

    Tim Gane (Domino Publishing) and Laetitia Sadier (Complete):

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery 

    Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    You see, the recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry for, things will look after themselves

    It’s alright, recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry if things can only get better

    There’s only millions that lose their jobs And homes and sometimes accents

    There’s only millions that die In their bloody wars, it’s alright

    It’s only their lives and the lives Of their next of kin that they are losing 

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    Don’t worry, be happy Things will get better naturally

    Don’t worry, shut up, sit down Go with it and be happy

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    DISCOVER ‘to here knows when’ by my bloody valentine

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    Posted on 31 March 2021
    'to here knows when' directed and restored by angus cameron

    Domino are immensely proud to announce the signing of my bloody valentine, with the band’s seminal catalogue being made available digitally in full for the first time.

    my bloody valentine, the quartet of Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe and Colm Ó Cíosóig, are widely revered as one of the most ground-breaking and influential groups of the past forty years. During an era in which guitar bands denoted, at best, a retro-classicism, not only did my bloody valentine sound unlike any ...

    Domino are immensely proud to announce the signing of my bloody valentine, with the band’s seminal catalogue being made available digitally in full for the first time.

    my bloody valentine, the quartet of Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe and Colm Ó Cíosóig, are widely revered as one of the most ground-breaking and influential groups of the past forty years. During an era in which guitar bands denoted, at best, a retro-classicism, not only did my bloody valentine sound unlike any of their contemporaries, the band achieved the rare feat of sounding like the future.

    With their debut album, Isn’t Anything (originally released in 1988), my bloody valentine revolutionised alternative music and heralded a new approach to guitar music for generations to come. The album birthed a sound which became a template for thousands of new subgenres, heralding a new approach to guitar music and studio production. Not only was it a new type of music, it paved the way for a new type of journalism; inciting comparisons to elemental phenomenon, tapping into how the music affected the psyche. Shields and Butcher frequently sang in a similar vocal range that allowed their voices to blend together. This had the effect of making their gender indistinguishable, to the point where their voices could be used as another melodic layer to complement the vertigo-inducing sounds made by Shields’ guitars.

    The second my bloody valentine album, loveless, was released in 1991. Musically, it took an unexpected leap forwards, standing ahead of anything released at the time. Shields and the band moved further towards a music of pure sensation, creating textures and tones that could be felt as much as heard; with loveless the band created an album that overwhelmed the senses. loveless is widely considered a flawless whole and rightly regarded as a masterpiece; a 1990s equivalent to Pet Sounds, In A Silent Wayor Innervisions, a record constructed by exploring the edges of what a recording studio is capable of. It is a record best experienced as a whole, in one sitting – a listening experience like no other and unmatchable in its sonic brevity.

    ep’s 1988-1991 and rare tracks compiles the group’s four EPs, wherein many of their devoted fans’ favourite music lies. You Made Me Realise and Feed Me With Your Kiss both preceded the band’s debut album in 1988 in quick succession. In the gap between Isn’t Anything and loveless, the band released two further EPs; Glider (1990) and Tremolo (1991).

    Finally re-emerging in 2013 after two full decades in relative hiding, their third album m b v is by turns their most experimental record but also their most melodic and immediate; proof real of their unerring desire for re-invention. Continuing to push boundaries of both music and genre, m b v is an album of astonishing music, some of which could lay claim to being of a type never been made before. Otherworldly, intimate and a visceral listen, m b v is a startling and beautiful metamorphosis of what was known of the my bloody valentine sound, pushing the boundaries of genre unlike any other band. The album’s closer, “Wonder 2” is an example of this, seeing Shields meld hypnotic guitar with drum’n’bass to astonishing result.

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER – Dale Barclay: All On Black

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    Posted on 30 April 2021

     

    It is regretfully devastating and equally magical how some of our most talented musicians are discovered posthumously. Dale Barclay (The Amazing Snakeheads) was regarded as the next great talent in Scottish music. However, Dale’s life tragically ended in 2018 when he passed away from brain cancer at the age of 32. This documentary tells his story and features interviews with Dale and those around him, including his wife Laura Barclay, Alex Kapranos from France Ferdinand (Domino Recor...

     

    It is regretfully devastating and equally magical how some of our most talented musicians are discovered posthumously. Dale Barclay (The Amazing Snakeheads) was regarded as the next great talent in Scottish music. However, Dale’s life tragically ended in 2018 when he passed away from brain cancer at the age of 32. This documentary tells his story and features interviews with Dale and those around him, including his wife Laura Barclay, Alex Kapranos from France Ferdinand (Domino Records), Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland) and Fat White Family‘s Lias Saoudi.

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    DISCOVER African Connexion ‘C’est La Danse’

    Oval
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    Posted on 24 September 2020
    C'est La Danse Oval Out 01 January 1984
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    African Connexion 'C'est La Danse' - Sleeve art by Sara Silcock

    Released in 1984 on the late Charlie Gillett‘s Oval Records, this song is a joyful, brassy, celebratory anthem recorded at Mark Angelo Studio and produced by Niall Morosini.

    Mwana Musa takes the lead vocal – a singer, guitarist, and composer based in London. His band, African Connexion, formed in 1983, had a series of singles in the mid-’80s before breaking up in 1986, after which, Musa began a solo career. Pan-African by name, African Connexion had no specific country to draw upon...

    Released in 1984 on the late Charlie Gillett‘s Oval Records, this song is a joyful, brassy, celebratory anthem recorded at Mark Angelo Studio and produced by Niall Morosini.

    Mwana Musa takes the lead vocal – a singer, guitarist, and composer based in London. His band, African Connexion, formed in 1983, had a series of singles in the mid-’80s before breaking up in 1986, after which, Musa began a solo career. Pan-African by name, African Connexion had no specific country to draw upon but some members originated from Ghana and Sierra Leone. Musa’s main influences were purportedly Zairean music, but he makes a point of introducing an array of new rhythms and musical patterns. This is notably supported by lead guitarist Abdul Tee-Jay, a fascinating musician originating from Sierra Leone to parents from Guinea, who went on to form his own dance band, Rokoto.

    Released as a 4 track 12″, the song features Merto Otrem (rhythm guitar), Abdul Tee-Jay (lead guitar), Jan Sliwinski (Bass), Otis Thompson (Vox, congas), Kevin Flanagan (alto sax) and Claude Deppa (trumpet).

    The Worldwide recording and publishing rights to ‘C’est La Danse (Kwanza Kwanza)’ by African Connexion are controlled by Oval Music exclusive to Domino Publishing.

     

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Amy Douglas ‘Cities In Dust’ Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cover

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    Posted on 17 March 2021
    Amy Douglas 'Cities In Dust' Siouxsie And The Banshees (single) Hard Feelings Out 13 December 2019
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    Directed by Dave Baron

    For her first release on Lady Balls, Amy Douglas covered ‘Cities In Dust‘ – Siouxsie Sioux‘s Epic tale of Pompeii.

    “Hot and burning in your nostrils
    Pouring down your gaping mouth
    Your molten bodies, blanket of cinders
    Caught in the throes
    And ohh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend“
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    DISCOVER Arthur Russell ‘Iowa Dream’

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    Posted on 30 September 2020
    Iowa Dream Arthur Russell Out 15 November 2019
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    I Never Get Lonesome from Iowa Dream

    Arthur Russell‘s climb to celebrated musician has for the most part taken place over the last 16 years, encouraged by a flow of compilation albums collected from the bottomless well of partially finished songs he left behind, much like his latest 2019 release ‘Iowa Dream’.

    Nearly half the songs on ‘Iowa Dream’ are drawn from recording sessions with both Columbia Records‘ legendary John Hammond and Mercury’s Paul Nelson. Hammond considered Russell to have the potential to become ...

    Arthur Russell‘s climb to celebrated musician has for the most part taken place over the last 16 years, encouraged by a flow of compilation albums collected from the bottomless well of partially finished songs he left behind, much like his latest 2019 release ‘Iowa Dream’.

    Nearly half the songs on ‘Iowa Dream’ are drawn from recording sessions with both Columbia Records‘ legendary John Hammond and Mercury’s Paul Nelson. Hammond considered Russell to have the potential to become the next Bob Dylan — but increasingly became frustrated with Russell’s strange musical arrangements and the large backing band he’d bring to the studio.

    From this album, the ever elegant folk strummer; ‘I Never Get Lonesome’ has quite simply been one of our favourite tracks here at Domino over the past year. It’s easy to see why when delving into the lyrics: “I never get lonesome, never in the day, never do I worry, I’ve got nothing to say…”.

    SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY WILL THOMMES

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    DISCOVER Dur-Dur Band ‘Yabaal’

    Analog Africa
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    Posted on 10 March 2021
    Dur Dur of Somalia - Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks Analog Africa Out 14 September 2018
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    ‘Yabaal’ from Dur Dur Band of Mogadishu Somalia – Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks by Dur-Dur Band originally performed 1986

    Watching this joyful hand camera video of Dur Dur Band is indicative that it is impossible to stand still whilst listening to the Somalian funk. It’s too easy for us to forget that before the civil war, 1980s Mogadishu was a thriving cultural hub. It is our loss that, in their heyday, we in the West didn’t recognise the sensational Dur-Dur...

    ‘Yabaal’ from Dur Dur Band of Mogadishu Somalia – Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks by Dur-Dur Band originally performed 1986

    Watching this joyful hand camera video of Dur Dur Band is indicative that it is impossible to stand still whilst listening to the Somalian funk. It’s too easy for us to forget that before the civil war, 1980s Mogadishu was a thriving cultural hub. It is our loss that, in their heyday, we in the West didn’t recognise the sensational Dur-Dur Band. Dur-Dur‘s doctrine was the fusion of traditional Somali music with whatever rhythms would make people dance: Funk, Reggae, Soul, Disco and New Wave were mixed effortlessly with Banaadiri beats, Daantho and spiritual Saar music. The concoction was explosive and when they stormed the Mogadishu music scene in 1986 with their very first hit single, ‘Yabaal‘, featuring vocals from Sahra Dawo, it was clear that a new meteorite had crash-landed in Somalia.  Abdulahi Ahmed, author of Somali Folk Dances explained: “Yabaal is a traditional song, but the way it was played and recorded was like nothing else we had heard before, it was new to us”.

    The following notes on Dur-Dur Band were written by Analog Africa:

    Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb arrived in Mogadishu in November of 2016, he was informed by his host that he would have to be accompanied at all times by an armed escort while in the country. The next morning, a neighbour and former security guard put on a military uniform, borrowed an AK-47 from somewhere and escorted him to Via Roma, an historical street in the heart of Hamar-Weyne, the city’s oldest district. Although previous Analog Africa releases have demonstrated a willingness to go more than the extra air-mile to track down the stories behind the music, the trip to Mogadishu was a musical journey of a different kind. It was the culmination of an odyssey that had started many years earlier.

    In 2007 John Beadle, a Milwaukee-based musicologist and owner of the much loved Likembe blog, uploaded a cassette he had been handed twenty years earlier by a Somalian student. The post was titled ‘Mystery Somali Funk‘ and it was, in Samy’s own words, “some of the deepest funk ever recorded”. The cassette seemed to credit these dense, sonorous tunes to the legendary Iftin Band. But initial contact with Iftin’s lead singer suggested that the ‘mystery funk’ may have actually been the work of their chief rival, Dur-Dur, a young band from the 80s.

    Back then, Mogadishu had been a very different place.
    On the bustling Via Roma, people from all corners of society would gather at the Bar Novecento and Cafe Cappucino, watch movies at the famous Supercinema, and eat at the numerous pasta hang-outs or the traditional restaurants that served Bariis Maraq, a somali Beef Stew mixed with delicious spiced rice. The same street was also home to Iftinphone and Shankarphone, two of the city’s best known music shop. Located opposite each other, they were the centre of Somalia’s burgeoning cassette distribution network. Both shops, run by members of the legendary Iftin Band, would become first-hand witnesses to the meteoric rise of Dur- Dur, a rise that climaxed in April of 1987 with the release of Volume 2, their second album.

    The first single ‘Diinleya‘ had taken Somalian airwaves by storm in a way rarely seen before or since. The next single, ‘Dab’, had an even greater impact, and the two hits had turned them into the hottest band in town. In addition to their main gig as house band at the legendary Jubba Hotel, Dur-Dur had also been asked to perform the music for the play “Jascyl Laba Ruux Mid Ha Too Rido” (May one of us fall in love) at Mogadishu’s national theatre. The play was so successful that the management had been forced to extend the run by a month, throwing the theatre’s already packed schedule into complete disarray; and each night, as soon as the play had finished, Dur-Dur had to pack their instruments into a Volkswagen T1 tour bus that would shuttle them across town in time for their hotel performance.

    The secrets to Dur-Dur‘s rapid success is inextricably linked to the vision of Isse Dahir, founder and keyboard player of the band. Isse’s plan was to locate some of the most forward-thinking musicians of Mogadishu’s buzzing scene and lure them into Dur-Dur. Ujeeri, the band’s mercurial bass player was recruited from Somali Jazz and drummer extraordinaire Handal previously played in Bakaka Band. These two formed the backbone of Dur-Dur and would become one of Somalia’s most extraordinary rhythm sections.

    Isse also added his two younger brothers to the line-up: Abukar Dahir Qassin was brought in to play lead guitar, and Ahmed Dahir Qassin was hired as a permanent sound engineer, a first in Somalia and one of the reasons that Dur-Dur became known as the best-sounding band in the country.

    On their first two albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, three different singers traded lead-vocal duties back and forth. Shimaali, formerly of Bakaka Band, handled the Daantho songs, a Somalian rhythm from the northern part of the country that bears a striking resemblance to reggae; Sahra Dawo, a young female singer, had been recruited from Somalia’s national orchestra, the Waaberi Band. Their third singer, the legendary Baastow, whose nickname came from the italian word ‘pasta’ due to the spaghetti-like shape of his body, had also been a vocalist with the Waaberi Band, and had been brought into Dur-Dur due to his deep knowledge of traditional Somali music, particularly Saar, a type of music intended to summon the spirits during religious rituals. These traditional elements of Dur-Dur‘s repertoire sometimes put them at odds with the manager of the Jubba Hotel who once told Baastow “I am not going to risk having Italian tourists possessed by Somali spirits. Stick to disco and reggae“.

    ‘Yabaal’ was one of the songs that resurfaced on the Likembe blog, and it became the symbolic starting point of this project.

    It initially seemed that Dur-Dur‘s music had only been preserved as a series of murky tape dubs and YouTube videos, but after Samy arrived in Mogadishu he eventually got to the heart of Mogadishu’s tape-copying network – an analogue forerunner of the internet file-sharing that helped to keep the flame of this music alive through the darkest days of Somalia’s civil strife – and ended up finding some of the band’s fabled master tapes, long thought to have disappeared.

    This triple LP / double CD reissue of the band’s first two albums – the first installment in a three-part series dedicated to Dur-Dur Band – represents the first fruit of Analog Africa‘s long labours to bring this extraordinary music to the wider world. Remastered from the best available audio sources, these songs have never sounded better. Some thirty years after they first made such a splash in the Mogadishu scene, they have been freed from the wobble and tape-hiss of second and third generation cassette dubs, to reveal a glorious mix of polychromatic organs, nightclub-ready rhythms and hauntingly soulful vocals.

    In addition to two previously unreleased tracks, the music is accompanied by extensive liner notes, featuring interviews with original band members, documenting a forgotten chapter of Somalia’s cultural history. Before the upheaval in the 1990s that turned Somalia into a war-zone, Mogadishu, the white pearl of the Indian Ocean, had been one of the jewels of eastern Africa, a modern paradise of culture and commerce. In the music of the Dur-Dur band – now widely available outside of Somalia – we can still catch a fleeting glimpse of that golden age.

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    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Eilisio Vera ‘Capchona’

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    Posted on 08 December 2020
    Space Echo Analog Africa Out 27 May 2016
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    Eilisio Vera 'Capchona' from the album Space Echo compiled by Analog Africa

    Analog Africa released the compilation album “Space Echo – The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed” in May 2016. Compiled and produced by label founder Samy Ben Redjeb, the album consists of upbeat and energetic tracks by various artists from the remote island of Cabo Verde off the West Coast of Africa, originally recorded in the 1970’s when the island was under Portuguese colonial rule.

    The album is synth-heavy and almost futuristic sounding, but what reall...

    Analog Africa released the compilation album “Space Echo – The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed” in May 2016. Compiled and produced by label founder Samy Ben Redjeb, the album consists of upbeat and energetic tracks by various artists from the remote island of Cabo Verde off the West Coast of Africa, originally recorded in the 1970’s when the island was under Portuguese colonial rule.

    The album is synth-heavy and almost futuristic sounding, but what really adds to the enjoyment of the compilation is the story behind the making of this music. In 1968 a a shipment carrying various electrical musical instruments and equipment set off from Baltimore headed for Rio de Janeiro. Mysteriously, the ship disappeared off the radar and washed up on the coast of Cabo Verde. A few months later, islanders came across the abandoned ship and local police commandeered the cargo – consisting of hundreds of synths and keyboards never seen before on the island.

    An anti-colonial leader decided to distribute the equipment among schools on the island (largely due to their access to electricity), and young people created a new musical sound that combined local traditional rhythms with a modernised synth edge. The young beneficiaries of this mysterious abandoned shipment grew to become extremely talented musicians with an infectious sound unique to the island, the best of which is presented In this compilation.

    The National review (UAE)

    SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY SAMANTHA POTTER

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    DISCOVER Gotts Street Park – Everything ft. Rosie Lowe

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    Posted on 09 February 2021
    Gotts Street Park - Everything ft. Rosie Lowe Rosie Lowe Out 29 September 2020
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    Gotts Street Park - Everything ft. Rosie Lowe

    This beautiful collaboration between Leeds collective Gotts Street Park and Domino Publishing writer Rosie Lowe was created and released during lockdown, in October 2020. The band sent Lowe the instrumental without having met her yet, and she comments: “I had the melody in my head before the song was even finished. It sparked such a strong energy for me and I wanted to capture that as quickly as possible; by the end of the day the whole song was written.” Lowe’s vocals and the jazz/soul...

    This beautiful collaboration between Leeds collective Gotts Street Park and Domino Publishing writer Rosie Lowe was created and released during lockdown, in October 2020. The band sent Lowe the instrumental without having met her yet, and she comments: “I had the melody in my head before the song was even finished. It sparked such a strong energy for me and I wanted to capture that as quickly as possible; by the end of the day the whole song was written.” Lowe’s vocals and the jazz/soul feel of the music create a distinct neo-soul sound.

     

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    DISCOVER Johnnie Frierson ‘Have You Been Good To Yourself’

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    Posted on 11 November 2020
    Have You Been Good To Yourself (reissue) Light In The Attic Out 19 August 2016
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    In such a chaotic time, it couldn’t be more important to check in and ‘be good to yourself’. Just as Johnnie Frierson sings on the ultra-rare home recordings drawn from his religious upbringing and his history in the music business, which was interrupted in 1970 when he was sent to fight in Vietnam.

    ‘Have You Been Good To Yourself‘ will come as a surprise to anyone expecting more of the beat-driven R&B Johnnie and his sibling produced.

    With the year we’ve all had, these lyrics...

    In such a chaotic time, it couldn’t be more important to check in and ‘be good to yourself’. Just as Johnnie Frierson sings on the ultra-rare home recordings drawn from his religious upbringing and his history in the music business, which was interrupted in 1970 when he was sent to fight in Vietnam.

    ‘Have You Been Good To Yourself‘ will come as a surprise to anyone expecting more of the beat-driven R&B Johnnie and his sibling produced.

    With the year we’ve all had, these lyrics say is all really…

    “Have you been good to yourself?
    Have you been getting your proper rest?
    Have you been sleeping at least eight hours?
    Have you been eating the right kind of food?
    Have you been getting enough exercise?”

    Johnnie joins Domino care of our Light in the Attic catalogue. 

    SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY WILL THOMMES

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    DISCOVER Johnnie Frierson ‘Miracles’

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    Posted on 07 January 2021
    Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (feat. Ty Segall) covering 'Miracles' by Johnnie Frierson Light In The Attic Out 06 January 2021
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    As part of Light in the Attic’s on-going 7″ covers series we celebrate the song “Miracles” (written by Johnnie Frierson. The a-side includes Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (feat. Ty Segall) covering “Miracles,” while the flip-side includes Johnnie’s original version, taken from our reissue of his album Have You Been Good To Yourself.

    Johnnie Frierson was a soul-singer/songwriter on the Memphis scene of the 1960s, perhaps best known for his role in The Drapels, tho...

    As part of Light in the Attic’s on-going 7″ covers series we celebrate the song “Miracles” (written by Johnnie Frierson. The a-side includes Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (feat. Ty Segall) covering “Miracles,” while the flip-side includes Johnnie’s original version, taken from our reissue of his album Have You Been Good To Yourself.

    Johnnie Frierson was a soul-singer/songwriter on the Memphis scene of the 1960s, perhaps best known for his role in The Drapels, though he played parts behind the scenes in soul, funk and gospel productions for Stax and Hi Records. His career was interrupted in 1968 by the U.S. Army. Following a stint in Vietnam, he returned to Memphis, making music only intermittently (making a single in 1975 with the gospel group The Whole Truth), while working a variety of different jobs and raising a family. In the early 90s, he got involved with music again, hosting a gospel radio show and selling cassettes of his new home-recorded songs in different places around town. According to his daughter, this was a hard time in Johnnie’s life, during which he was no doubt processing the painful experiences he’d had in Vietnam and afterwards. The songs show remarkable optimism in the face of this information — perhaps none more so than “Miracles,” with its warm and emphatic refrain:

    You can do ‘em
    have faith
    you are human
    only human
    and human beings, they do miracles

    Johnnie’s version, a guitar and vocals performance, thrills with its uncoated R’n’B and gospel inspirations. For Ty’s take on the song, the ever-darkening realities of the present-day require a different sonic platform — and so, via the riffs of the original, he takes the song to a darker area of the blues, which, driven by the funky soundings of the Rhythm King drum machine and scudded with filth-toned guitars, synths and saxes (sketchily blown by Bitchin Bajas’ Rob Frye), evokes the raw beats of Sly, the exotic tinge of Stevie and the sanctified elevation of Al Green. This clearly delights Bill and Bonny, who deliver from deep down, with Bonny supplying all the voices in the backing choir with true fervor and Bill hitting a couple of notes that make our hair stand straight up every time. A low-down, slinking celebration of our bottomless grace.

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    A-Side: Drag City – B-side: Light in the Attic

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Bubble’

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    Posted on 24 November 2020
    Diamond Mine King Creosote Out 28 March 2020
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    Directed By Elliot Dear (Blinkink)

    “So who’s been unfair, Who causes you sorrow? And who’s been unkind, Who burst your bubble?”

    Lyric to Bubble by King Creosote and Jon Hopkins (video)

    Nothing quite like a pandemic to help your life flash before your very eyes but it occurred to us that 28th March 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Diamond Mine, a collaborative album from Domino and Double Six artists, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins. We’ve selected the song Bubble to share with you whilst we revisit...

    “So who’s been unfair, Who causes you sorrow? And who’s been unkind, Who burst your bubble?”

    Lyric to Bubble by King Creosote and Jon Hopkins (video)

    Nothing quite like a pandemic to help your life flash before your very eyes but it occurred to us that 28th March 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Diamond Mine, a collaborative album from Domino and Double Six artists, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins. We’ve selected the song Bubble to share with you whilst we revisit this remarkable album.

    ‘From squeezebox lullaby to tranquilized electronic waltz, this stunning track glides and flickers with all the grace of the Northern Lights in bloom’ – Bubble in Q magazine’s Q50 

    The album was launched with a breathtaking show at Union Chapel – a memorable moment being the mesmerizing repeat of Your Young Voice echoing through the hallowed rafters: “It’s your young voice that’s keeping me holding on to my dull life.” 

    Featuring lyrics and vocals from King Creosote (Kenny Anderson) sung over musical backdrops arranged and recorded by Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine is a genuine labour of love, recorded over a number of years without the pressure of deadlines, whenever Jon and KC could get together.

    The album, featuring instrumental moments as affecting as the lyrical, consists of newly interpreted obscure delights picked out from 20 years of King Creosote’s treasure chest of a back catalogue. Intended to be heard as a single experience, Diamond Mine produces a near classical suite of emotion ranging from cracked despair to patched-up euphoria. Described by King Creosote as a ‘soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village’, the record weaves in slices of Fife life, bike wheels, spring tides, tea cups and café chatter to produce a beautiful, unique and timeless album.

    Following a the Mercury nomination they followed this up with an EP, Honest Words featuring a reworking of album track Bats In The Attic as well as songs ‘Honest Words’ and ‘Aurora Boring Alias’. The press release called this the teasing out of the truth in an obfuscating lyric, or contemplating the truth as laid bare by feline nature and star fields. The music underneath follows these thoughts into more expansive, crystalline realms, far away from the harbours and tea-rooms where they began. The album took on a deluxe version in 2012 with the Jubilee Edition featuring extra songs (Missionary, Starboard Home) and KT Tunstall supplying vocals on Third Swan.

    Revisiting Diamond Mine through the lens of the past decade – the profundity of the concept album is heart wrenching and it’s hard to imagine the record is anything other than an anecdotal document of human experience. Featuring themes of humility, fatherhood and mortality – it is a sobering and fragile record. The instrumentation itself mixes tradition, spoken word and experiment as if it is musically stumbling it’s way through the changes from traditional to modern times.  The lonely spaces of Jon’s treatment of organic, found and piano sounds, profoundly distill Kenny Anderson‘s songwriting. The result is a potent mix and this album marks a strong milestone in the careers of two of the UK’s musical artisans.

    We would suggest that collaborations between electronic and independent songwriter whilst now fairly commonplace were still relatively pioneering when Jon and Kenny first got together to set about on this piece. It will be interesting to look back on this record in 10 years time and trace a potential musical lineage inspired by Diamond Mine.

     

    Praise for Diamond Mine

    Mercury Music Prize Nomination 2011 The Guardian

    The Guardian, Mojo, Q and Uncut listed Diamond Mine in their top albums of 2011.

    ‘[..] fragile and lovely, adjectives that apply to the whole gig: an album on which everything just clicks, deservingly getting a night on which the same thing happens’ – 5* Guardian live review

    ‘ancient and modern, complex yet blissfully sparse, and very, very beautiful’- Evening Standard – 5*

    ‘Extraordinary album? Definitely’ – Sunday Times Culture – 5* CD of the Week

    ‘a song -cycle that illuminates the exceptional in the everyday’ – Independent – 4*

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Late of the Pier ‘Bathroom Gurgle’

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    Fantasy Black Channel Sam Potter Out 04 August 2008
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    Click here to watch ‘Bathroom Gurgle’ by Late of the Pier

    Forming in Castle Donnington in 2005, Late of the Pier were four school friends, Samuel Eastgate (vocals, guitar), Sam Potter (synths, sampler), Andrew Faley (bass), and Ross Dawson (drums) – or, as they called themselves: Samuel Dust, Jack Paradise, Francis Dudley Dance, and Red Dog Consuela.

    With social media and streaming in its infancy, people had messy lives – partying went relentlessly unchecked and anything was possible....

    Click here to watch ‘Bathroom Gurgle’ by Late of the Pier

    Forming in Castle Donnington in 2005, Late of the Pier were four school friends, Samuel Eastgate (vocals, guitar), Sam Potter (synths, sampler), Andrew Faley (bass), and Ross Dawson (drums) – or, as they called themselves: Samuel Dust, Jack Paradise, Francis Dudley Dance, and Red Dog Consuela.

    With social media and streaming in its infancy, people had messy lives – partying went relentlessly unchecked and anything was possible. You might share a toilet cubicle with Amy Winehouse and split a cab fare with a z list celeb without thinking to document it. People were still spending any money they had on going ‘out out’. There were no pop-up gastro experiences, tattoos were still Chinese mottos, the only vegan option was asking for salad pitta and chips after you checked the chippie didn’t cook the battered sausage in the same oil. The provincial towns of the UK were loaded with DIY music makers excitedly experimenting with gear they found in someone’s loft. It never occurred to anyone to sell it online. You’d get your pals round and make something with the treasures you’d find to try and make life more interesting for yourselves. Most parents would not mind – they had a music interest themselves. This is how you would end up with bands like Late of the Pier.

    2008 marked the end of an era of blind optimism in the music business. The seismic tremors of the credit crunch were underway. Venture capitalists grabbed Caesar hair-cut music executives by the ankles and yanked them abruptly into the rapidly opening crevasse which was ripping across companies like EMI Music. The Parlophone imprint was home to one album – 2008’s ‘Fantasy Black Channel’ by Late of the Pier. Caught in this metaphorical ice flow – this album became a landmark, frozen in time. They marked a new dawn of genre binaries, art and energy. Its young creators would later grow up through the Domino roster to become Soft Hair, LA Priest and perform song-writing duties with Domino artists like Franz Ferdinand and Xenoula.

    Wrestling free from usual genre constraints, Late of the Pier‘s only album release was hotly tipped at the time. Put out through EMI Music on Parlophone’s A&R structure it released on the imprint Phantasy Sound – the label founded by DJ Erol Alkan.  Based in Hoxton, the area was just on the turn to gentrification – clinging on to it’s lively arts scene. Alkan produced this album. One half of psychedelic rock group Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve (BTWS), it’s worth mentioning that the wizzard sleeve sound encapsulated the post 9/11 New York new wave sound of the mid 00s. People were tiring of 4 piece bands and tongue-in-cheek novelty rock bands. People were looking for something authentic, expressive and joyful. Unusual rhythmic patterns were popularised by a wave of Brazilian music. The music scene was bubbling with baile funk and burgeoning British hip hop – hints of fresh new music buds were appearing. BTWS had remixed Peter Bjorn and John, Midlake, Simian Mobile Disco, Franz Ferdinand, The Chemical Brothers and Goldfrapp. Their mixes filled the  impromptu dancefloors of bohemian dive bars across Europe.

    Late of the Pier shows were the most sought after to attend at a time when people could be bothered to go out. The band would crush onto small stages in silver hoods and robes of ‘neon grey’. It was almost impossible to ever describe their music or remember their song titles. Their music consumed synth pop, glam rock, IDM and thrash metal. Someone told me I had to go see this band – ‘they use wooden planks in their set mate, you gotta check em out‘. We did all pile down to UCL union bar in London to ‘check em out’. Late of the Pier kept everyone happy from the indie band guys to glam rock fashionistas.

    “Starting off like Haircut 100, this morphs into ‘Mechanical Animals’-era Marilyn Manson, followed by The Strokes’ ‘12.51’ riff, then ‘There, There’ by Radiohead, through to MGMT and Gary Numan. Just when you think it’s over, Rage Against the Machine metal-funk appears with added cock-rock guitar. Thus it is everything ace ever, distilled into a pendant of liquid-pop platinum.” NME 1st August 2008

    Whilst the band never officially split, Sam Eastgate aka Samuel Dust now better known as La Priest, worked with Sam Potter aka Jack Paradise on Fantasy Black Channel’s tenth anniversary in 2018 by creating a pamphlet for Rough Trade Books titled Ecstatic Data Sets: The Chorismos Apeiron Scanner (2028 Edition) a manual for a music-making machine of the near future.

    This entry is dedicated to the memory of drummer, Ross Dawson.

    DAZED: remembering Late of the Pier – one of the UK’s most forward thinking bands

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS WRITTEN BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Matching Mole ‘O Caroline’

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
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    Matching Mole (1972 image Courtesy of Cuneiform Records)

    Robert Wyatt (Drums, Vocals) Phil Miller (Guitar) Bill MacCormick (Bass) Dave MacRae (Keyboards)

    Matching Mole was formed by drummer and lyricist Robert Wyatt after he left Soft Machine in July, 1971. Soft Machine were hugely popular in France, and the band name was inspired by the French translation of Soft Machine: Machine Molle. Midway through recording the first album, Robert was joined by guitarist Phil Miller (Delivery, Hatfield & The North, National Health), organist Dave Sinclai...

    Robert Wyatt (Drums, Vocals) Phil Miller (Guitar) Bill MacCormick (Bass) Dave MacRae (Keyboards)

    Matching Mole was formed by drummer and lyricist Robert Wyatt after he left Soft Machine in July, 1971. Soft Machine were hugely popular in France, and the band name was inspired by the French translation of Soft Machine: Machine Molle. Midway through recording the first album, Robert was joined by guitarist Phil Miller (Delivery, Hatfield & The North, National Health), organist Dave Sinclair (Caravan), bassist Bill MacCormick (Phil Manzanera’s 801) and electric pianist Dave MacRae (Mike Westbrook).  A second album, Little Red Record, which was produced by Robert Fripp of King Crimson, and which was released in 1972. Matching Mole disbanding soon after. The group laid down experimental, frustrating, catastrophic, unfulfilled and wonderfully meandering soundscapes. In the unique manner of Robert Wyatt, writing songs from the limitless possibility of jazz chaos allowed one particular song to emerge on the Matching Mole album – the most beautiful love song, ‘O Caroline’. 

    “David’s on piano, and I may play on a drum
    And we’ll try to make the music work, we’ll try to have some fun
    But I just can’t help thinking that if you were here with me
    I’d get all my thoughts in focus and play more excitingly
    I love you still, Caroline
    I want you still, Caroline
    I need you still, Caroline
    If you call this sentimental crap you’ll make me mad
    ‘Cause you know that I would not sing about some passing fad
    And if my attempts at rhyming aren’t convincing to your ear
    Then memories betray you through the passing of the year…
    You must think it doubtful that I mean the words I sing
    Or that all attempts to reach you this way could not mean a thing
    But you must admit we both thought we’d be man and wife
    And that I could make you happy for the best part of your life”
    Matching Mole could be a distant cousin of bands like Clinic, Girl Band and Black Midi.

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Molly Drake ‘What Can a Song Do To You?’

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    Posted on 26 May 2021
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    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, and fleeting

    Ordinary music in an ordinary street
    Why does your heart start beating
    What can a song do to you?
    Can it wake any memory sleeping
    Can it call back a day when your heart fled away into somebody else’s keeping

    What can a song do to you?
    Can it bring back a spring in December
    Can it make with each note such an ache in your throat
    A...

    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, and fleeting

    Ordinary music in an ordinary street
    Why does your heart start beating
    What can a song do to you?
    Can it wake any memory sleeping
    Can it call back a day when your heart fled away into somebody else’s keeping

    What can a song do to you?
    Can it bring back a spring in December
    Can it make with each note such an ache in your throat
    And you find you can still remember

    For the past is a house full of treasure
    The lies buried deep in the store
    Every smile, every tear, every pleasure
    And a song is the key to the door

    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    What can a song do to you

    Can it kindle a flame that was dying

    Til it burns once again with its joy, with its pain
    And your heart’s of a sudden crying
    Oh I know, yes I know, now I see
    What a song has done to me

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    DISCOVER The Feelies ‘Crazy Rhythms’

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    Posted on 03 November 2020

    The Feelies formed in New Jersey 1976, taking their name from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’. They released their first album ‘Crazy Rhythms’ in 1980. The band, influential in the development of post-punk music, have a distinctive  sound which was very original compared to the punk/new wave scene of the time. Their music is known to have influenced the likes of R.E.M, and ‘Crazy Rhythms‘ was received extremely well by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the album...

    The Feelies formed in New Jersey 1976, taking their name from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’. They released their first album ‘Crazy Rhythms’ in 1980. The band, influential in the development of post-punk music, have a distinctive  sound which was very original compared to the punk/new wave scene of the time. Their music is known to have influenced the likes of R.E.M, and ‘Crazy Rhythms‘ was received extremely well by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the album largely went under the radar with little commercial success, and the band rarely played live to promote themselves. The Feelies later disbanded in 1992 having released four albums.

    TIn 2009, Bar/None and Domino Records reissued the albums ‘Crazy Rhythms’ and ‘The Good Earth’. Highlights from these albums include ‘Let’s Go’, ‘Forces At Work’ and ‘The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness’: each with the band’s signature infectious guitar and fast-paced drum beats.

    SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY SAMANTHA POTTER

     

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    DISCOVER The Human League ‘Open Your Heart’

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
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    “Love is the reason, Faith or treason, Playing a part
    End concealing, Try revealing, Open your heart
    Dare to feel, Take the chance, Make the deal
    But if you can stand the test, You know your worst is better, Than their best”
    Released  28th September 1981, ‘Open Your Heart’ was written by Phil Oakey and Jo Callis. Produced by the late Martin Rushent, it’s impossible not to whistle along to Jo’s analogue synth – ‘Playing a part [toot toot toot]…‘. The song was a huge h...
    “Love is the reason, Faith or treason, Playing a part
    End concealing, Try revealing, Open your heart
    Dare to feel, Take the chance, Make the deal
    But if you can stand the test, You know your worst is better, Than their best”
    Released  28th September 1981, ‘Open Your Heart’ was written by Phil Oakey and Jo Callis. Produced by the late Martin Rushent, it’s impossible not to whistle along to Jo’s analogue synth – ‘Playing a part [toot toot toot]…‘. The song was a huge hit for the Sheffield synth-pop pioneers written specifically for the number one album ‘Dare’ aside it’s other big hits – ‘Don’t You Want Me’ and ‘Love Action’. Released on Virgin Records, it  reached number six in the UK singles chart and raised the band’s profile to the highest it had been to that point.
    Jo Callis, who was new to the band at the time, said in an interview in October 2009:
    “I had started to work out both those tunes on guitar, playing along to an early drum machine which had about six preset drum patterns, Open Your Heart did translate better on the keyboard and I think we used the same drum machine with the same preset on the original demo which was done in the League’s old 8 track studio in Sheffield“.
    Credited with changing the face of British pop, the Human League had the biggest record sales of any act for five years. Their poignant, tongue in cheek lyrics and pioneering sound influenced bands like Pet Shop Boys. Their gender fluid look without compromising their authenticity and Sheffield roots has never been more relevant than it is today.
    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL
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    DISCOVER The Immediate

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
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    The Immediate 2007

    The Immediate were from Malahide, Ireland. They made a considerable impact on the Irish music scene despite releasing only one album  ‘In Towers and Clouds’ (2006) which was nominated for the 2006  Choice Music Prize (Irish Album of the Year).

    “The truth is, there hasn’t been an Irish band like The Immediate before or since; their mix of art-rock, alternative pop and angular indie was a breath of fresh air on the Irish music scene at the time, which up to that point had been subjuga...

    The Immediate were from Malahide, Ireland. They made a considerable impact on the Irish music scene despite releasing only one album  ‘In Towers and Clouds’ (2006) which was nominated for the 2006  Choice Music Prize (Irish Album of the Year).

    “The truth is, there hasn’t been an Irish band like The Immediate before or since; their mix of art-rock, alternative pop and angular indie was a breath of fresh air on the Irish music scene at the time, which up to that point had been subjugated by dour singer-songwriters with acoustic guitars. They released a clutch of singles and a superb debut album In Towers and Clouds in 2006, which still sounds fantastic almost a decade later.”     

    2015 – Ten Irish Acts We Wish Were Still Making Music Now – the Irish Post

    After splitting in 2007, Conor O’Brien reappeared as Villagers in 2008. Joining Domino, the first  Villagers’ album ‘Becoming a Jackal’ went on to achieve a Mercury Music Prize nomination in 2010. The track Becoming A Jackal won the coveted Ivor Novello for songwriting “Best Song Musically and Lyrically”. 

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    DISCOVER Touch and Go ‘Big Beat’

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    Taken from the 1999 Touch and Go album ‘I Find You Very Attractive‘, ‘Big Beat’ is an unexpected gem amongst an album of 90s classics.  It’s a catchy, happy, mischievous number with pop vocals, a jazzy joyful dance track with bebop sensibility . In the 90s this track was widely known to be used in comedy sketches and in clubs when the DJ wanted to get people on their feet. The most famous track of this record was ‘Would You…?‘ which achieved number 3 in the UK Charts and prov...

    Taken from the 1999 Touch and Go album ‘I Find You Very Attractive‘, ‘Big Beat’ is an unexpected gem amongst an album of 90s classics.  It’s a catchy, happy, mischievous number with pop vocals, a jazzy joyful dance track with bebop sensibility . In the 90s this track was widely known to be used in comedy sketches and in clubs when the DJ wanted to get people on their feet. The most famous track of this record was ‘Would You…?‘ which achieved number 3 in the UK Charts and proved a hilarious showstopper of the 90s student disco.

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    DOMINO WELLNESS 2021

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    Welcome to 2021 – This year Domino bring music and wellness by creating motivating and healing playlists. 

    We have been keen to give you the opportunity to use music and the senses to ground yourselves during these anxious times. Have we lost our minds? Probably multiple times lately. When you lose your mind, sensory grounding is a fantastic way of reconnecting you to your environment. Music can help with that.

    …

    BODY AND MIND There’s been lots of healthy chatting time in lockdown an...

    Welcome to 2021 – This year Domino bring music and wellness by creating motivating and healing playlists. 

    We have been keen to give you the opportunity to use music and the senses to ground yourselves during these anxious times. Have we lost our minds? Probably multiple times lately. When you lose your mind, sensory grounding is a fantastic way of reconnecting you to your environment. Music can help with that.

    …

    BODY AND MIND There’s been lots of healthy chatting time in lockdown and we certainly got chatting. Talking to the amazing Dr Julia Jones, we learned how music helps performance from trained athletes to people with serious dementia and autism. We learned reading her book, the Music Diet, how important it is to be active and how music is important to physical and mental wellbeing. It’s also important to stretch and look after your knees! Julia launches a new brain wellness project January 2021.
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    MOOD NOT GENRE At the end of 2020, Kate Hutchinson at The Guardian acknowledged Adrianne Lenker‘s ‘Mostly Chimes’ as part of the movement toward public preference for mood music opposed to genre – classifying ambient music as healing. As part of Big Thief, Adrianne was recently nominated for two Grammy awards.
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    FRAGRANCE These curiosities lead us to talk to the fragrance blogger We Wear Perfume. We asked what indie fragrances exist. Could we support artisans and independents with the same values as Domino? We were kindly connected to Gallivant fragrances – an award-winning indie perfume maker from London, founded and created by Nick Steward. Nick’s fragrances are inspired by his travels to different cities. We all miss our flaneur existence we found his collection of fragrances allowed us to sit in our own spaces and go on little journeys to cities we’ve not been to or have missed. When we first started talking to Nick he told us that he wished people would ‘listen to the fragrance’. As advocates of slowness and immersion this really appealed to us. We want to start a better understanding of slowing down, engaging fully with our senses and reconnecting with ourselves and others. We want to be active around how music and scent can work better together for wellness. Inspired by Nick’s fragrances we created playlists for three of his scents which link to our Domino offices
    NEW YORK | LOS ANGELES | LONDON| PARIS
    We know things may or may not be going back to normal for everyone. We hope that we can be as optimistic and supportive as we can. But we also are aware that a lot of damage has occurred this past year.
    If you do feel a little overwhelmed, we hope you might take time out to listen to the playlists and immerse yourselves in sound.
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    Mental Health Awareness Week will take place from 10-16 May 2021. The theme is ‘Nature‘.  We have posted a series of wellness playlists in the playlist section under themes.

    NATURE – FIERCE “When we cannot spend all our time outdoors in nature, music can play a powerful role. Music replicates the effects of nature and harnesses the brain responses to natural sounds. Fast tempo, loud, music mimics exciting or dangerous outdoor natural environments.” Dr Julia Jones

    NATURE – CALM “We cannot spend all our time outdoors in nature, so music can play a powerful role at other times during our day. Music replicates the effects of nature and harnesses the brain responses to natural sounds. Slow, quiet, music mimic safe natural environments.” Dr Julia Jones

    MOTIVATION Get motivated to work in the morning or after a long lunch

    CONFIDENCE Listen to before an important meeting or if you’re feeling anxious about opening your inbox

    RESILIENCE What would you listen to that would keep you happily working away and keep your mood at a productive level 

    RECOVERY Accept the set back and acknowledge those feelings so you can move on. If you’ve had back to back zoom calls try to break them up with one song. Back to back zoom calls cause stress. Even listening to just one song is enough to help your brain pattern recover. 

    MEDITATION Take a mindfulness break. Close your eyes, shut out visual information that crowds your brain and listen to music. Perhaps try to slowly synchronise your breath to encourage slower brain patterns.

    BRISK WALK Take a screen break and give yourself a 20 minute brisk walk and  a little wind down before back to work 

    GROUNDING Songs that inspire conscious focus on the 5 senses 

     

     

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    FRANCE Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – The Blue Banana

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    Posted on 28 April 2021
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    Textes écrit par Julia Grueßing (Berlin), Mathieu Cesarsky (Paris) et François Marry (Athènes)

    Revivez la création de l’album Banane Bleue de Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains à travers un mini documentaire en trois partie aux côtés de François Marry et Jaakko Eino Kalevi avec lequel il a produit l’album.

    The Blue Banana – Partie 1 – Berlin
    The Blue Banana – Partie 2 – Paris
    The Blue Banana – Partie 3 – Athens

    Ces films documentent l’enregistrement de l’album Banane Bleue de Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains. Un album enregistré dans les supercités euro...

    Revivez la création de l’album Banane Bleue de Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains à travers un mini documentaire en trois partie aux côtés de François Marry et Jaakko Eino Kalevi avec lequel il a produit l’album.

    The Blue Banana – Partie 1 – Berlin
    The Blue Banana – Partie 2 – Paris
    The Blue Banana – Partie 3 – Athens

    Ces films documentent l’enregistrement de l’album Banane Bleue de Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains. Un album enregistré dans les supercités européennes de Berlin, Paris et Athènes – des lieux où les artistes tentent de faire face au manque de responsabilité dans un confort européen en ruine.

    Les trois villes représentent un axe des anciennes utopies européennes. L’Union européenne a été mise en avant par la France et l’Allemagne après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, avec la volonté de sceller la paix pour toujours. La vieille Athènes est le berceau légendaire de la démocratie. Paix et démocratie, ces mots sont comme le lait maternel de nos identités politiques.

    Nous avons développé des villes européennes sur ces bases fondamentales. L’argent a afflué, l’électricité a coulé, les bâtiments ont grandi partout. L’Europe est devenue si urbaine que, si vous observez le continent depuis l’espace, vous pourriez voir les lumières des villes européennes devenir brillantes la nuit. Les observateurs ont dit que cela ressemblait à une banane bleue. Pourtant, aujourd’hui, notre environnement montre des signes de faiblesse et de nombreuses décisions politiques des dirigeants des pays européens semblent illogiques (d’un point de vue non lucratif). La banane bleue est le fruit surréaliste de l’Europe électrique.

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    FRANCE François & the Atlas Mountains ‘Coucou’

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    Posted on 27 October 2020
    Banane Bleue Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains Out 26 October 2020
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    Quelle joie de retrouver Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains avec « Coucou », un titre léger et chaleureux qui annonce la sortie de Banane Bleue, son nouvel album à paraitre le 26 Février 2021.

    Frànçois y aborde avec simplicité la question de la communication émotionnelle après une rupture amoureuse.

    Une douceur musicale qui introduit selon moi parfaitement la couleur de ce nouveau disque qui est soulignée par la pâte sonore de Jaakko Eino Kalevi qui a produit le disque ainsi q...

    Quelle joie de retrouver Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains avec « Coucou », un titre léger et chaleureux qui annonce la sortie de Banane Bleue, son nouvel album à paraitre le 26 Février 2021.

    Frànçois y aborde avec simplicité la question de la communication émotionnelle après une rupture amoureuse.

    Une douceur musicale qui introduit selon moi parfaitement la couleur de ce nouveau disque qui est soulignée par la pâte sonore de Jaakko Eino Kalevi qui a produit le disque ainsi que par le mix de Renaud Létang (Connan Mockasin, infinite bisous).

    “Coucou”, ce single presque californien, avec sa basse moelleuse et ses guitares radieuses, donne parfaitement le ton de Banane Bleue. Centré sur les connexions émotionnelles et les malentendus, il dépeint le point final d’une liaison étiolée: « Je déteste ce mot, ‘Coucou’ » précise Frànçois. « Il exprime pour moi une forme de naïveté douceâtre, un peu fausse. Et devient d’autant plus absurde quand il vient de quelqu’un qu’on a follement aimé. »

    Banane Bleue est un disque nomade et profondément européen, né entre Berlin, Athènes et Paris. Il tire son nom du concept de la ‘banane bleue’ théorisé dans les années 80, que dessinent les grandes cités européennes, de Liverpool à Milan, et dont les limites, à force de se rejoindre, se sont entremêlées pour former une immense mégalopole. Le concept a ressurgi comme un vieux souvenir de lycée pour François. Qui l’a ensuite poétisé, imaginant une forme luminescente que l’on apercevrait depuis l’espace, quelque chose de vibrant et d’impalpable qui nous entoure et nous relie. Banane Bleue explore ce territoire commun, culturel et amoureux, fait de rendez-vous manqués, d’incompréhensions et de malentendus.

    Frànçois explique à propos du concept: « Je me suis souvent demandé ce qu’aurait été mon histoire relationnelle si j’étais né sur un autre continent. Notre idée de l’amour, qui vient des XVIII et XIXème siècles, est incrustée dans les murs et les parfums des villes, les cafés, les bars et les soirées, les vacances à deux, les week-ends dans une capitale. Comme s’il y avait un parfum romantique dans l’électricité européenne. » Un maillage affectif qui s’incarne dans Banane Bleue.

    C’est seul ou presque, que Frànçois a conçu le disque, épaulé par le finlandais Jaakko Eino Kalevi à la production et par Renaud Letang (Feist, Gonzales, Connan Mockasin) au mix.

     

    SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY VICTOR JOLY

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    Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties) joins Domino Publishing

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    Posted on 21 March 2022
    Let Me Do One More Illuminati Hotties Out 29 May 2025
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    Domino Publishing are happy to announce the signing of Sarah Tudzin the writer, producer, mixer and engineer of Los Angeles based rock band ‘Illuminati Hotties‘. We look forward to seeing what she does next following on from the success of her latest album ‘Let Me Do One More’. Watch the music video for ‘Pool Hopping’ above, an energetic single that cements her as an exciting creative powerhouse.

    Illuminati Hotties will be performing at London’s Moth Club and Brighton’s Great...

    Domino Publishing are happy to announce the signing of Sarah Tudzin the writer, producer, mixer and engineer of Los Angeles based rock band ‘Illuminati Hotties‘. We look forward to seeing what she does next following on from the success of her latest album ‘Let Me Do One More’. Watch the music video for ‘Pool Hopping’ above, an energetic single that cements her as an exciting creative powerhouse.

    Illuminati Hotties will be performing at London’s Moth Club and Brighton’s Great Escape Music Festival this summer as part of their UK tour, see the full tour dates here.

     

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    The Weeknd headline at the Super Bowl 2021 features “Happy House” parade

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    Posted on 08 February 2021
    Kaleidescope by Siouxsie and the Banshees Steven Severin Out 01 August 1980
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    "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" contains a sample of Happy House" performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees [cue 10 minutes]

    The Weeknd headlined the Super Bowl LV halftime show 7th February 2021 with a career-spanning, sequin-bombed medley of his biggest hits — including songs from 2011’s House of Balloons – the debut mixtape by the Canadian singer. Accompanied by a stadium dance troop at 10 minutes “House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls” contains a sample of “Happy House” performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees (written by Steven Severin on Domino Publishing). Abel Tesfaye kicked things off in a ...

    The Weeknd headlined the Super Bowl LV halftime show 7th February 2021 with a career-spanning, sequin-bombed medley of his biggest hits — including songs from 2011’s House of Balloons – the debut mixtape by the Canadian singer. Accompanied by a stadium dance troop at 10 minutes “House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls” contains a sample of “Happy House” performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees (written by Steven Severin on Domino Publishing). Abel Tesfaye kicked things off in a sleek convertible in front of a Vegas-themed backdrop. A choir with red eyes (a nod to Daft Punk) parted to reveal the man himself — magically — in front of a glowing background in a red, sequined suit. READ MORE 

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