Product Description

This is the first solo CD from Charlie Dominici. It is a completely acoustic concept album about a man who is taken from his home at a very early age and forced to train for a task that he has no prior knowledge of. He soon finds himself in a foreign country where he begins to blend in a little too well. He becomes attached to his new country and his new life when suddenly he is contacted by his former captors and told he is to do something terrible. In his research he finds the task that he is being told to do is much more sinister than he was led to believe. Now he is faced with the option of disobeying his captors and putting himself and his family at risk or following through with the plan that could destroy the world.This is a wild ride of music that is composed,played,sung and produced all by the artist Charlie Dominici.

Review

"literally one of the first times the acoustic singer/songwriter approach has been brought to progressive rock, setting a new standard. -- http://www.ytsejam.com online magazine. June 4th,2005

About the Artist

Charlie Dominici Bio Born June 16th, 1951, it would not be long before Charlie Dominici would know what he wanted to do. Like the rest of the musicians of his generation, "The Beatles" appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964 was the turning point for him. He soon got his own guitar and the rest is history. That history includes an early album with a major label as one half of the semi-acoustic duo "Billy and Charles" on Faithful Virtue records in 1969. It would not be until 1979 that he would actually see some of his work reach top 10 statuses. That was with the release of the debut album from "Franke and the Knockouts". The band enjoyed some top 10 hits and very successful touring. Charlie sang and played 2nd guitar with the band that featured the front man, Franke Previte. Franke would later co-write the hit songs "Time of my Life" and "Hungry Eyes" from the movie "Dirty Dancing". Tico Torres from the band "Bon Jovi" was the drummer and John "Skinny" Regan from Peter Frampton and Ace Frehley was the bass player. Many musical projects would follow but it would not be until the fall of 1987 when Charlie met up with the soon to be renamed band "Majesty". That alliance led to the release of the acclaimed debut album "When Dream and Day Unite", featuring Charlie on lead vocals and the band was renamed "Dream Theater". Charlie was among the bands numerous subsequent lineup changes. He spent the next 10 years in a self imposed semi-retirement from the music scene until he was asked to perform with Dream Theater again at the 15th anniversary show celebrating 15 years since the debut album was released. He accepted the invitation to sing with them once again and the show was documented on DVD, which was released this spring to a fanfare of praise from the music world. The DVD is called "When Dream and Day Re-Unite" and can be found on the Dream Theater website. Charlie has now released the first installment of his very ambitious solo project, "O3 A Trilogy." It is an acoustic solo project that shows his lyric and songwriting ability in its purest form. A "concept" work with no overdubs and completely recorded in single "live" takes, this trilogy of albums will prove to be the definitive statement from this long absent and frequently under rated artist. The rest, as they say, will be history.