DOM "Raw" (p)2025 self-released

For me "Raw" sounds like the soundtrack for a movie I'm uncertain whether I'm eager to see it or not. I would like to see it cos this music produces the imagery of a certain kind in my brain. The spaces, the objects, and everything what's going on in there. 

I would not like to see it because it's gonna be an 'abandon all hope' dystopian sci-fi where the human beings are totally stripped off their humanity being converted into living mechanisms obliged to make some senseless dreary life-sucking work. A terrifying sight. Unfortunately, it's as uncomfortable as our world is.

Amongst the DOM's vast back catalogue one album stands out in terms of disquietude it creates. It's the pandemic "Emergency" which I recall to be almost physically painful to listen to. Painful but some kind of cleansing. As compared to it "Raw" is way more acceptable for an unprepared listener but it makes the same feeling of total omnipresent discomfort.

Our world is not ok. Accepting this one might choose the escapist vision and all those "we are happy people on the top of the world" chantings of Coldplay just to soothe the ache. Or you may choose to be real.

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DOM "Warm" (p)2023 self-released

The first word that comes to mind upon listening to the new release of Domingo Aleman's "household" solo project DOM is 'visceral'. You can almost see how this music pours out of Domingo's body in its own intuitive way. How it paves its way through his skin pores. How it streams through his fingers short-circuiting the guitar strings. How it's pulsating within the drumkit (yes I know the drums are programmed but I'm not speaking of what I know, I'm only speaking of how it feels). 

The tracks are quite repetitive and it's the case when repetition transforms into captivity. That's why the longest tracks are the best here (for me personnally I'd prefer this to be glued together into one 40 minutes long piece without pauses between the tracks). As long as Domingo is not your conventional songwriter with the songs built up on some basic four chord sequences there is no standard verse-chorus structure to be found on this album. So the music just flows around to envelope you with its vibe and to move you to another place full of tribal rhythm, offbeat synths and fluid desert rock guitars.

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