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TRACKLISTING: 01. My Home Is Nowhere Without You 02. Try To Think About
Me 03. When The Sun Rose Up This Morning 04. When We Were Still Friends
05. On A Saturday 06. My Baby Is Afraid Of Sharks 07. Lovers Are
Waterproof 08. Next Year In Zion 09. Someone Knows Better Than Me 10.
My Best Kiss 11. Baby Baby You’re My Baby 12. (Nothing Left But) Poison
In The Rain
LIMTED CD comes in a Book package with extended booklet insert and 2CDs with bonus tracks
OVERVIEW:
On the new album Next Year In Zion, songwriter and vocalist David
Herman Dune and drummer Neman Herman Dune deliver a dozen charming and
intricately constructed pop songs.
After years as a highly
prolific, practically DIY band, Parisians Herman Dune have gained
considerable cult status across Europe and in New York City, where the
young band lived off and on for nearly 8 years. Releasing 5 official
albums and distributing countless homemade CDRs at live shows, they
found an early champion in John Peel. The archive of Peel Sessions the
band performed for the BBC number in double digits. With their tireless
work ethic, ramshackle shows eventually gave way to headlining sold out
gigs. Tours with Arcade Fire, The Kooks put them in front of
increasingly larger crowds, and even without a U.S. release to their
names, Rolling Stone tagged ‘I Wish That I Could See You Soon’ in their
year-end list of the Top 100 Songs of 2007.
The songs on “Next Year
In Zion” are warm and exuberant, think Leonard Cohen, Jonathan Richman
and Stephen Malkmus with a twist, and for the Dunes, true love is the
salve for a world-weary cynic’s psychic wounds. But Zion is not all
California sunshine and paeans to falling in love. Even for a happy
man, thunder clouds gather on the horizon. There is the lingering
spector of loneliness betrayal and an undercurrent that something much
bigger than him is pulling the strings.
On the recording, Herman
Dune expand the core duo to include their extended family of female
backing vocalists The Babyskins, The John Natchez Bourbon Horn players
(on loan from Beirut and Arcade Fire) and guitar virtuoso Dave
Tattersall (of UK band The Wave Pictures).
Engineered by Richard
Formby (who also worked on 2006’s Giant and 2004’s Not On Top) the
sessions were recorded on a handmade, vintage EMI mixing board from
Abbey Road once used by the Rolling Stones. Self-produced over 2 weeks,
Herman Dune chose to record the sessions live to analogue tape in the
French countryside of Provence, with every player working together in
the same room.
Next Year In Zion shows the Parisian duo at their
most lyrically and sonically robust. Arrangements include as many nods
to traditional Jewish and Eastern European instrumentation and Ennio
Morricone’s desert vistas as they do to Chuck Berry and The Velvet
Underground’s controlled cacophony. It’s the band’s most accomplished
and complete offering to date.
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