Moody, slow burn with just a touch of hope. Grooving alt pop with delicious vocal harmonies.

words and music by dominato.

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Soul Clap Hands

He had a moment 
Coming down the road
His hands got shaky
The night got cold
Some old magic 
Got a hold on he
In a far off land
Tied to a tree

A shinning boy (shinning boy)
Found his power to see (power to see) 
A shinning boy (shinning boy) 
Sees the misery (sees the misery)  
In a far off land (far off land)
Truth or dare (truth or dare)
A hole opened up (a hole opened up)
And he went in down there 

Oh Mother Mary
What is the plan?
That shinning boy
Is now a grey beard man
And the visions 
Still have hold on he 
They wake him up at night 
What must he see?

An aged man is but paltry thing
Unless soul clap hands and sing

Soul clap hands
Soul clap hands
Soul clap hands
Soul clap hands
Soul clap hands

Music and Words Copyright 2025 Gregory Dominato

Acknowledging WB Yeats in “Sailing By Byzantium”

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

Soul Clap Hands

Heath

A cover of Someone You Loved, by Lewis Capaldi.  Sung by Rachelle Kelly Gonzalez.

Someone You Loved

I believe that everything is always possible to change
You can be anything you want, just understand
Without mistakes there will never be faith
Tomorrow will be a new day, the system will remain

All our songs are for those who are not afraid to go
Who is not afraid to make a mistake in finding the way
A committed fanatic, true to himself
I love my friends and respect those who are true to their dreams

Punching the atmosphere we fly to nowhere
Further, only what no one has ever seen
If not me, then who, if the other is not like that
I am true to my ideas, I remain myself

Punching the atmosphere we fly to nowhere
Further, only what no one has ever seen
If not me, then who, if the other is not like that
I am true to my ideas, I remain myself

What if we're not alone, our lives are empty
The mood is wrong and the sun flashes
It's like you're alone, everything is against you
Remember that everyone can be true to themselves

It is not necessary for everyone to think that you will be yours
That you will be up to the end in any situation
Time goes by and as much as I would not like new thoughts
Change the day, will not care about the risks

Punching the atmosphere we fly to nowhere
Further, only what no one has ever seen
If not me, then who, if the other is not like that
I am true to my ideas, I remain myself

Punching the atmosphere we fly to nowhere
Further, only what no one has ever seen
If not me, then who, if the other is not like that
I am true to my ideas, I remain myself

Атмосфера

Blips and clicks. The electron surf. Meditate on the sonic life as the mothership lands.  

music by dominato.

photo by dominato

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Interpretations of ideas from a notebook with connections to the avant-garde rock scene in 1970’s Los Angeles.

In the summer of 2017, a notebook of some interest came into my possession. Along with grocery lists, Spanish lessons, and some terrible poetry (all in two sets of handwriting) it seemed to also have been used to document musical ideas. After some struggle to reconnect with the owner, I sat down with the aging gentlemen in a popular downtown restaurant known for it’s French dip sandwiches. I would buy him several of these sandwiches before I got his full story and the story of the mysterious notebook. As it turned out, the pseudonymous “Richard Something” as he was known, was somewhat of a missing link in the fractured 1970’s avant-garde scene in and around Los Angeles. According to Richard, he was often on the periphery of that scene, briefly rubbing shoulders with the likes of Wild Man Fischer, members of Los Angeles Free Music Society, and members of the defunct (and unfortunately named) West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. He even played baseball with a young Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo), later of the Magic Band, where they both grew up in Hawthorne, CA. Richard’s only known (but sadly lost) recording, recorded in his childhood friend Emmit Rhodes’ garage, is the single “Rock Sausage.” This became the subject of a lawsuit with local radio station KROQ, and DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who used the recording as an intro to his show without attribution or permission in 1976. After winning a modest sum in that case, Richard went on to sue the inventor of the pet rock, Alkaseltzer, and as it happens, the restaurant we had been sitting in (Richard claimed that it was he and not Phillipe Mathieu that invented the French dip sandwich even though it was invented some 30 years prior to Richard being born.) Richard, unfortunately won none of these lawsuits and left Los Angeles for the California desert shortly after.

None of what happened during his 30 + years in the desert can be confirmed and much of it is quite unbelievable. However, as he tells it, it was the most productive time of his career as he recorded and toured a string of albums as “Richard Something & the Salton Sea Bees,” a band Richard described as “Bela Bartok meets Hank Williams.” None of these albums nor any information at all on this band could be found. It is from this time that the notebook in question supposedly originated. Allegedly, it was from a collaboration in the early aughts that never came to fruition with, as Richard dubiously claims, myself. I told him this was impossible but the man remained convinced we worked together for a time. Many of the ideas, according to Richard, were ideas he had going back decades but never had a chance to record for one reason or another.

We fell out of touch shortly after I got his story, which I was beginning to suspect was 70-80% bullshit. It was with some reluctance that I finally returned to Ulterior Frequencies, and to the curious notebook that spawned the idea for the album. I decided the pieces were interesting enough to explore and started recording in early 2019. I have not heard from or seen Richard since that week 3 years ago.

Although the standard format in the time that these ideas were put to paper (the early 2000s) would have probably been compact disc, Ulterior Frequencies is now available on the more modern, high fidelity cassette tape.

Ulterior Frequencies

Sine Here

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Soul Clap Hands

Dominato

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