Barbara de Dominicis
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Album:
Anti-Gone
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Barbara De Dominicis’ work is situated somewhere between writing and
music, still striking a balance between improvised-experimental
music and songs. She has been singing her own songs and other
people’s too; and sometimes she still does. She manipulates sounds,
performs real time invented music, records imaginary soundscapes …
Amongst her voyages “sonore and not” are : Extravagance in Cesare
Pavese, performance for piano and voice based on italian poem “Verrà
la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi “ by Cesare Pavese (Berlin 2001- with
pianist Antonello Malafioti from Interjazzional), The body, exposed,
an extemporary performance for piano and voice, based on Barbara's
unpublished poem Il corpo, esposto. (Naples 2005 - together with
pianist Mirko Signorile and drummer Vincenzo Bardaro from Urban
Society).
She has been collaborating (both touring and recording) with Body
and Soul, Mirko Signorile, Marco Messina, Frame, Leon Miller,
Francesco Forni, Giorgio Santisi, Mauro De Leonardo, Sandro Sibillo,
Rosario Castagnola, L’Ultimo Metro, Nicola Conte, Luigi Scialdone,
Corrado Calignano, Gerardo Di Lella, Ursula 1000, The Body & Soul,
Kaddish, Oscar Montalbano, Gaetano Partipilo, Alessandro Tutoli.
In 2004 she meets percussionist Pasquale Bardaro and together they
create Cabaret Noir. Their debut album is published by Schema
Records in Europe and Rambling Records in Japan. The album includes
a video of track "The Ironic Death" by videographer Pietro Marcello.
Cabaret Noir is a cocktail of electro-jazz influences featuring some
of the best musicians on the European jazz and classic scenes. Their
music could be described as an evocative sequence of soundscapes:
almost an imaginary soundtrack An ethereal, visionary and dreamy
atmosphere. The tales of "Cabaret Noir" are haunted by paradoxical
visions: a collection of melancholic, moody reflections that seem to
find their ideology in a film noir... Mellow and sensuous stories
but surrealistic and ironic at the same time.
In 2007 she starts a series of extemporary performances that go
under the name of Poe-Si. Poe-Si is a series of unpredictable
performances that only happen in the making. It can be explained as
a collection of experiments based on the interaction amongst the
couple orality-vocality and the different elements on stage as like
as an electronic station, a piano and a visual element (each time a
different one: it can be a video or an istallation).
In 2007 she starts a collaboration with the media artist Davide
Lonardi, sonorizing his video-poems (Iº libro del volo) and starting
to work on the music of his first movie (A season of wind)
In 2008 she produces her solo album Anti-Gone: a sort of hidden
concept album with a reference to the greek heroin Antigone. A few
months ago she “met” Julia Kent (Antony & The Johnsons). Together
they brought into existence Intermittenze.
Website:
http://www.anti-gone.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/barbaradedominicis
YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sofficem