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Playful anti-folk with hit potential 10 years ago David-Ivar Herman Dune and drummer Cosmic Neman began an adventure under the name Herman Dune. From out of Paris, step by step, they conquered the wor...

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Playful anti-folk with hit potential

10 years ago David-Ivar Herman Dune and drummer Cosmic Neman began an adventure under the name Herman Dune. From out of Paris, step by step, they conquered the world with their playful anti-folk. Mostly under the approving eye of the late BBC radio icon, John Peel. They first dived into a professional studio in 2006 for ‘Giant’ (remember the fantastic ‘I Wish That I Could See You Soon’ that according to Rolling Stone was one of the best songs of 2007) and with their second album ‘Next Year In Zion’ (2008) they scored another easy-going indie-hit, namely ‘My Home Is Nowhere Without You’.

Later Cosmic Neuman travelled the world with Zombie Zombie but as of late he's been working with David-Ivar again on a new album: the new ‘Strange Moosic’. Single ‘Tell Me Something I Don’t Know’ from that album is immediately a fine forerunner. We draw the following from the album review on goddeau.com: ‘Playing the songs live in the studio is also a part of the anti-folk philosophy too. And although Herman Dune still adheres to the less-is-more approach, on ‘Strange Moosic’ we are once again presented with a very rich and versatile sound. The Hermen have no problem luring the listener into their personal universe, time and time again’.

Special Guest for this concert is Holland's Alamo Race Track that came to fame in 2006 with the slightly fantastic album ‘Black Cat John Brown’, with an associated single of the same name. What's more, their music effortlessly floors the editors of Le Monde in Paris or Filter Magazine in Los Angeles. So too their new CD ‘Unicorn Loves Deer’ that will also be in stores here in early September.