DISCOVER ‘Ping Pong’ by Stereolab

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER ‘to here knows when’ by my bloody valentine

'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 ...

Read moreless

DISCOVER – Dale Barclay: All On Black

 

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER African Connexion ‘C’est La Danse’

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...

Read moreless

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

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“

DISCOVER Arthur Russell ‘Iowa Dream’

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 ...

Read moreless

DISCOVER Dur-Dur Band ‘Yabaal’

Yabaal - Fadumina - Jazz Cafe- Dur-Dur Band International

‘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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER Eilisio Vera ‘Capchona’

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER Gotts Street Park – Everything ft. Rosie Lowe

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER Johnnie Frierson ‘Have You Been Good To Yourself’

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER Johnnie Frierson ‘Miracles’

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Bubble’

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER Late of the Pier ‘Bathroom Gurgle’

Photo credit: Jon Bergman

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....

Read moreless

DISCOVER Matching Mole ‘O Caroline’

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...

Read moreless

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

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER The Feelies ‘Crazy Rhythms’

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER The Human League ‘Open Your Heart’

'Open Your Heart' Director Brian Grant
“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...
Read moreless

DISCOVER The Immediate

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...

Read moreless

DISCOVER Touch and Go ‘Big Beat’

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...

Read moreless

DOMINO WELLNESS 2021

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...
Read moreless

FRANCE Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – The Blue Banana

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...

Read moreless

FRANCE François & the Atlas Mountains ‘Coucou’

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...

Read moreless

Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties) joins Domino Publishing

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...

Read moreless

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

"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 ...

Read moreless