DOME LA MUERTE EXP
Domenico Petrosino, in arte DOME LA MUERTE, è un’icona del rock’n’roll italiano. Nel 1979 è uno dei membri fondatori dei
leggendari CCM (Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers), unica band italiana prodotta da Jello Biafra, quando la scena hardcore italiana
era solo agli albori. Nel 1982 entra a far parte dei Not Moving, partecipando alla produzione delle loro pietre miliari Movin’ Over,
Black and Wild, Sinnermen, Flash On You e Song Of Myself, fino al loro scioglimento nel 1994. In quegli anni condivide il palco
con band punk come D.O.A. e Damned e incontra l’amica e artista Christa Päffgen, in arte Nico, durante il suo ultimo tour euro-
peo, come raccontato nel biopic “Nico, 1988” diretto da Susanna Nicchiarelli.
Negli anni Novanta fonda il pionieristico gruppo stoner Hush, noto per l’album Om, e apre le tournée italiane di The Clash, Nick
Cave and the Bad Seeds, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, The Fuzztones, Iggy Pop e The Fleshtones. Da sempre impe-
gnato nella promozione della cultura dei nativi americani, Dome collabora a diversi progetti con Lance Henson (poeta Cheyenne)
e John Trudell (poeta e attivista Sioux, cantante e attore). Ha scritto e suonato colonne sonore per spettacoli teatrali e film, in
particolare ha eseguito le parti di chitarra elettrica per la colonna sonora di “Nirvana” di Gabriele Salvatores nel 1996.
Nel 2005 i Not Moving si riuniscono per promuovere il cofanetto antologico Live In The 80s pubblicato da Go Down Records. Il
DVD contiene le testimonianze di Gianni Maroccolo, Max Pezzali, Marlene Kuntz e molti altri. Nel 2006 la stessa etichetta indipen-
dente da fiducia alla sua neonata garage band Dome La Muerte and the Diggers. “Diggers” è più di una semplice parola, è un
riferimento al movimento politico americano nato alla fine del XIX secolo. Negli anni Sessanta, fu usato per criticare satiricamente
il sistema borghese statunitense e il suo moralismo, che permeava la società. Il debutto omonimo vede la partecipazione di Emi-
liano Giuliani (ex Liars e Not Right) alla batteria, Lady Casanova (ex Not Right) al basso, Matteo ‘Basetta’ Gioli (ex Thunder Rod
Company) alla chitarra e la guest star Rudy Protrudi dei Fuzztones all’armonica e ai cori in “Blue Stranger Dancer”, “Heart Full Of
Soul” e “Sorry, I’m A Digger”. L’album è stato pubblicato da Go Down Records e Area Pirata su CD nel 2007.
Nel 2008 Bonnie Von Vodka (ex Les Valvolettes) sostituisce Lady Casanova e nel 2010 esce il secondo album Diggersonz, sem-
pre co-prodotto da Go Down Records e Area Pirata e registrato in analogico da Jorge ‘Dr. Explosion’ Muñoz-Cobo Gonzalez
agli Estudios Circo Perrotti di Gijon, Spagna. Nel 2013 esce il terzo capitolo Supersadobabi, caratterizzato stavolta da un approc-
cio più istintivo, incendiario e street-style. La formazione vede Dome La Muerte alla chitarra e voce, Iride Volpi alla chitarra, JP
Palazzino (ex Hellvis) alla batteria e Marco Serani al basso. L’album è stato pubblicato da Go Down Records e comprende nove
canzoni originali, più le due cover “Little Doll” degli Stooges e “The Shape Of Things To Come” di Max Frost And The Troopers. Si
sono esibiti con band come Dick Dale, Flaming Groovies, Buzzcocks e Gravediggers V.
Ispirato dal suo album di debutto da solista Poems For Renegades (2011), Dome La Muerte forma la nuova band Dome La
Muerte E.X.P. i cui temi principali sono le colonne sonore degli spaghetti western, la Beat Generation, l’India e il movimento hippy,
il flusso di coscienza e il profondo rispetto e ammirazione per la cultura dei nativi americani. I membri di questo combo sono
Emiliano Giuliani alla batteria, Luca Valdambrini all’organo e theremin, Alessandro Quaglierini al basso. Il loro primo album Lazy
Sunny Day è stato registrato da Alfredo Gentili al Go Down Studio di Savignano sul Rubicone, nel giugno 2016, e pubblicato per
Go Down Records e Cinedelic nel febbraio 2017. Si sono esibiti a supporto di artisti come Marc Ribot e Vinicio Capossela.
Il 25 settembre 2020, Dome La Muerte e i (fedeli) Diggers tornano con l’EP di due tracce The House Of Lily / Shake Some Action
disponibile su tutte le piattaforme digitali via Go Down Records. Il 3 dicembre successivo, l’editore italiano Agenzia X pubblica
Dalla parte del torto, un memoir ricco e sincero che spazia dagli anni Settanta alla pandemia, rievocando la storia personale di
Domenico, che incarna l’anticonformismo di un musicista schietto e coerente. Nel 2023 l’artista torna a lavorare con gli E.X.P. per
il secondo album in studio El Santo, in uscita a settembre per Go Down Records su LP, CD e in formato digital
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Lance David Henson
He is a member of the Hall of Fame of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts. He has been honored with a medal by the Partisans Organisation of Italy. Most recently he won the Ostana International prize in Italy for his translations of poetry from his Cheyenne language. He is a member of the Cheyenne Dog Soldier clan, a multi- disciplined martial artist, member of the Native American Church, he has participated in the Cheyenne Sundance for 32 years. He was a former adjunct professor of the Cheyenne Tribal College in Weatherford, Oklahoma. He currently lives with his wife near Bologna, Italy.
Lance Henson was born in 1944 in the District of Columbia, Washington, is Cheyenne, Oglala Sioux and French. He was raised on Cheyenne reserved lands in Oklahoma by his great aunt and uncle, Bertha and Bob Cook. His great uncle was the groundskeeper for Chapter One of the Native American Church of Oklahoma. Lance was the last of five boys raised by this couple. He grew up living the Southern Cheyenne culture. After high school in Calumet, Oklahoma he served in the U. S. Marines during the Viet Nam war. He graduated from Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts (now University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma) in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Henson has made his life as a poet and cultural activist since that time. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Tulsa.
He was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant and attended Tulsa University receiving a Masters degree in creative writing with a concentration in film as literature. His first book of poetry, KEEPER OF ARROWS, was published while a second year student in university. Harper and Row publishers of New York identified Henson and 18 other Native Poets, most still in university, publishing the first major anthology of American Indian Poetry in 1970 titled CARRIERS OF THE DREAM WHEEL.
After ten years of conducting poetry workshops through the Artist in Residence program of the State Arts Council of Oklahoma, Lance began to travel, working both in the U.S. and in Europe.
Lance is a member of the Cheyenne Dog Soldier Society, the Native American Church and the American Indian Movement (AIM). He has participated in Cheyenne Sun Dance on several occasions as both dancer and painter.
Lance has published 40 books of poetry, half in the U.S. and half abroad. His poetry has been translated into 27 languages and he has read and lectured in 9 countries. His readings include the One World Poetry Festival in Amsterdam, the International Poetry Festival in Tarascon, France, the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival in New Jersey.international novi sad literature festival,novi sad serbia 2015.28th international poetry festival medillin,festival of indigenous shaman poets 2018. He has co-written two plays, one of which, Winter Man, had a successful run at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company. His play Coyote Road played to sell out audiences in Versailles, France in December 2001.
In his poetic performances he collaborates often with blues and jazz musicians.
He recorded a LP with the rock band Not Moving and other artists titled Lance Henson and friends (1988).
A remix of a jazz and poetry CD titled Another Train Ride (1999) has appeared in collaboration with Arlo Bigazzi, Claudio Chianura , Roger Eno, Ector Zazou titled The Wolf and the Moon, from Materiali Sonori, Milan, Italy (2001).
Lance represented the United States Information Service as a Featured Lecturer in Singapore, Thailand, New Guinea and New Zealand in 1993. He has also represented the Southern Cheyenne Nation at the European Free Alliance in Leeuwarden, Netherlands and at the United Nations Indigenous Peoples Conference in Geneva since 1988. He subsequently returned there until the Working Group on Indigenuos Peoples was moved to the United Nations in New York in 2004.
In 2000, the first WORDS FROM THE EDGE tour was initiated in four countries in Europe, conceived and directed by Lance. Three poets completed this tour: Apirana Taylor, Maori from New Zealand, Memchoubi, from the Meitei Nation of India and Lance representing the Southern Cheyenne.
In 2006, Huka Hey, indigenous support group, sponsored a WORDS FROM THE EDGE tour in Italy, directed by Lance, included two other native poets: Laura Tohi, Navajo and Kateri Akawenzi Damm, Anishnaabe.
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