MONDO DOMINGO

Bio:

MONDO DOMINGO is a musical group! A rare breed of four highly suspect, yet undeniably unique individuals that came together in the city of Los Angeles to create their own brand of Latin infused psychedelic pop. The band consists of AM (vocals/guitar) Rick Garcia (vocals/timbales) Mark Getten (bass guitar) and Chris Lovejoy (drums). The style and sound of their music is truly their own and can only be experienced and not described. The group strongly feels that to personally describe their own music would only place a "curse" on them and then they wouldn't be able to create MONDO DOMINGO music anymore. Longtime fan Lucy Valdez once described them as "...some form of a Mexican cocktail while being enjoyed in the California sun knowing you'll have a lot more of that same cocktail later that night at a cock fight."

The origin of the name MONDO DOMINGO: The group was originally called MANDO Domingo. Mando was the former clave player of the band and supreme chick magnet. When the group began to earn a sizable income Mando took off with the money. He ripped the group off! Leaving them clave-less and broke! To this day he is nowhere to be found. Feeling greatly betrayed, the group changed their name to MONDO DOMINGO in order not to confuse their global fanbase too much. "We still don't know what the name means, but that's okay," states Lovejoy. Needless to say the band rarely incorporates clave anymore. Now it's mostly cowbell...and when they DO incorporate clave it is most assuredly played by Garcia as there was always a competitive thing going on with him and Mando when it came to clave.

"Above all we love creating music for the people to enjoy it," says AM. "We are a band of the people," injects Garcia. "We try not to talk about these things because then we get very; how do you say it? In your head too much," concludes Getten.

MONDO DOMINGO; Let's cook!

“Mondo Domingo will rock your cojones off” -Rolling Stoners
“Channeling Jorge Ben with Echo Park charm...” -Latin Groove Magazine
“Psychedelic making-love to your woman music…” -DJ Ray Gonzales

Member Since:

August 19, 2007

Members:

AM
Rick Garcia
Mark Getten
Chris Lovejoy

Influences:

Ennio Morricone, Sergio Mendes, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gilberto Gil, Piero Piccioni, Herb Alpert, The Silver Apples, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben, Marcos Valle, Cal Tjader, The J.B.'s, Tamba 4, David Axelrod. Header Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!..

Sounds Like:

Lo-fi latin makin' love to your lady music.