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Dominique Leone 
Dominique Leone in 2008.Background information Birth name Dominique Salvador Leone Genres Experimental pop music Occupations Composer, Singer Instruments piano/synthesizer, drum kit, trumpet Years active 2007-(present) Labels Feedelity, Strømland, Important Website www.dominiqueleone.com Dominique Leone is an American musician and writer based in San Francisco, California. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on December 29, 1973, and grew up in the Dallas, Texas area.
Leone began writing music reviews for Pitchfork Media in 2001, and was a regular contributor until 2007. He has also written for Paste Magazine, All-Music Guide and Trouser Press. His first release as a musician was the Dominique Leone EP on Hans-Peter Lindstrøm's Feedelity label in 2007. In 2008, Lindstrøm and Smalltown Supersound's Joakim Haughland released Leone's first full-length CD on their Strømland label, with art by Kim Hiorthøy.[1] American experimental music label Important Records released his second CD Abstract Expression in October 2009.
Leone received a Bachelor's degree in Music Performance in 1998 from Texas Tech University,[2] focusing on classical trumpet. As a recording artist, Leone has been compared to Harry Nilsson,[3] Brian Wilson,[4] Boredoms,[5] and XTC.[6] His music has been described as containing "stubbornly original song structures and chord progressions",[7] and British electronic pop musician Max Tundra noted that Leone is "one of the greatest practitioners of the chord progression".[8] Leone performs periodically in the San Francisco bay area, and more rarely, throughout America and Europe, including a well-received[9] appearance at the 2009 Les Siestes Electroniques festival in Toulouse, France. He has collaborated or performed with Kevin Blechdom, R. Stevie Moore, Lindstrøm, Mungolian Jet Set, Kango's Stein Massiv, Cryptacize, Odawas, Bob Drake, William Winant, as well as contributing vocals and trumpet to Boredoms' Super Roots 10 release.
In 2010, Leone won Grand Prize in a Steve Reich remix contest, judged by the composer Reich himself, and celebrating the composer's 74th birthday.
As a music critic, Leone was known for championing modern experimental and fringe artists, as well as older electronic music, progressive rock, and psychedelia. For Pitchfork, Leone penned early reviews of Animal Collective,[10] Devendra Banhart,[11] as well as several for influential Japanese band the Boredoms.[12] He also wrote frequently cited reviews of Can,[13] Igor Wakhévitch,[14] The Beach Boys,[15] and for Trouser Press, a lengthy overview of France's Magma.[16] In 2007, Leone authored a monthly column for Pitchfork entitled "Out Music".[17] He presented his paper "What You Hear is Never What They Heard, and What You Get is Never What They Had" at the 2007 Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame Pop Conference[18] in Seattle, Washington.
Discography
Dominique Leone EP [Feedelity; 2007]
Dominique Leone [Strømland; 2008]
Abstract Expression [Important; 2009]
Summer EP [Self-released; 2010]
Les Noces [Self-released; 2011]
External links
References
- ^ "Dominique Leone". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/Dominique-Leone-Dominique-Leone/release/1442142.
- ^ "Home Studio Inspection with Dominique Leone". SF Weekly. 2008-08-06. http://www.sfweekly.com/2008-08-06/music/home-studio-inspection-with-dominique-leone/.
- ^ "Dominique Leone - Band to Watch". Stereogum. 2008-04-10. http://stereogum.com/archives/band-to-watch/band-to-watch-dominique-leone_009023.html.
- ^ "Dominique Leone CD review". XLR8R. 2008-05-30. http://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/dominique-leone/dominique-leone.
- ^ "Dominique Leone - MUSIC REVIEWS". Tiny Mixtapes. 2008. http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Dominique-Leone.
- ^ "Album Reviews: Dominique Leone". Pitchfork. 2008-05-28. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11546-dominique-leone/.
- ^ "Dusted Reviews: Dominique Leone". Dusted Magazine. 2008-05-22. http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4315.
- ^ "Guest Lists: Max Tundra". Pitchfork. 2009-01-22. http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/7582-max-tundra/.
- ^ "Les Siestes Electroniques: Reporting gonzo". Chronicart. 2009. http://www.chronicart.com/siestes/report.php.
- ^ "Album Reviews: Animal Collective: Sung Tongs". Pitchfork. 2004-05-02. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/191-sung-tongs/.
- ^ "Album Reviews: Devendra Banhart: Oh Me Oh My...". Pitchfork. 2002-11-05. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/546-oh-me-oh-my/.
- ^ "Album Reviews: Boredoms". Pitchfork. 2004-06-06. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11677-onanie-bomb-meets-the-sex-pistols-pop-tatari-chocolate-synthesizer/.
- ^ "Album Reviews: Can". Pitchfork. 2004-11-10. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11698-monster-moviesoundtrackstago-magoege-bamyasi/.
- ^ "Reviews". Fractal. 2002-06-14. http://www.fractal-records.com/02review/f002.htm.
- ^ "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s". Pitchfork. 2006-08-18. http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/6405-the-200-greatest-songs-of-the-1960s/2/.
- ^ "Magma". Trouser Press. 2002. http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=magma.
- ^ "Out Music". Pitchfork. 2007-01-09. http://pitchfork.com/features/out-music/6517-out-music/.
- ^ "2007 Pop Conference Bios/Abstracts". Experience Music Project. 2007-04. http://www.empsfm.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=127&xPopConfBioID=864&year=2007.
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- American male singers
- American singer-songwriters
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- 1973 births
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