In fact, but for his bestest buddies and the fine folks at Important Records (USA) and the Smalltown Supersound/Hans-Peter Lindstrom imprint Strømland Records (Norway), few have heard more than a peep from him. And yes, he’s a him. If you read Internet record reviews, you may have seen his name around, though if you hate record reviewers, please don’t hold that against him.

The truth is, he’s a songwriter, producer, singer, lover, fighter… scratch that, he´s one of a growing number of college-educated musical auteurs with more than a slight command of pop history and theory chops, and writing songs for joyous, infatuated (or over saturated) people.  Perhaps some of them just like good melodies with cool, strange chord progressions.  The critics (SPIN, Village Voice, Pitchfork, XLR8R) seemed to.

Dominique is a ”classically trained” musician from Texas who currently operates out of San Francisco. He lists Brian Wilson, Claude Debussy, Randy Newman, Paul McCartney, Andy Partridge, Glenn Gould, ABBA, Miles Davis, Magma, and Olivier Messiaen as personal heroes. He thinks visual artist Julie Mehretu is the bomb.  He’s played, written or recorded with Lindstrom, Mungolian JetSet, Kevin Blechdom, William Winant, MaryClare Brzytwa, Odawas, R.Stevie Moore, Wobbly and others.

All of his music could be considered ”pop” of a sort, though usually with a dash of “prog”, “conceptual art” or “a really good tv theme”.  It’s catchy but ambitious; crafted but not sterile; interesting but not pretentious. It’s just a lot of fucking fun.