Bonsound Records

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Bonsound Records is one of the three labels managed by Bonsound,
the two others being Proxenett Records and Blow the Fuse Records.

News

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ARTISTS

• Eleni Mandell
• Herman Dune
• Kill The Lights
• Marie-Pierre Arthur
• Monogrenade
• Radio Radio
• Random Recipe
• Yann Perreau

RELEASES

• Fold It! Mold It! \\\ Random Recipe
• Pink Dog - EP \\\ Kill The Lights
• Au soleil - EP \\\ Yann Perreau
• Shipwreck (7" Single) \\\ Random Recipe
• Belmundo Regal \\\ Radio Radio
• Next Year In Zion \\\ Herman Dune
• Un serpent sous les fleurs \\\ Yann Perreau
• Marie-Pierre Arthur \\\ Marie-Pierre Arthur
• Cliché Hot \\\ Radio Radio
• Perreau et la Lune live au Quat'Sous \\\ Yann Perreau
• Télé Télé \\\ Radio Radio
• Dis-moi au revoir encore (7") \\\ Eleni Mandell
• Nucléaire \\\ Yann Perreau
• Western Romance \\\ Yann Perreau

CONTACT

info@bonsoundrecords.com
tel. 514-522-5672
fax 514-522-5460

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Herman Dune

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Biography

Even with a ten years career and an imposing discography, the duet that is David-Ivar Yaya Herman Dune (songwriting, singing, guitar) and Neman Herman Dune (drums) is still one of the best kept secret of the underground music scene. After a heavy tour across Europe, Herman Dune is coming to Canada to present their brand new album, Next Year In Zion to be released on Bonsound Records on March 17th (digital release on March 10th).

By touring across Europe and the United States since their early 7 inches lo-fi to this seventh album, Herman Dune earned a certain cult status, praised by the critics over the year as well as their always faithful public.

Eager to coincide the formal authenticity (unity of time, place and recording, recording on non-digital material) with the emotional authenticity (straight foward sincerity, honest declaration of love), the two Herman Dune are presenting with Next Year In Zion their most achieved recording to date. An album reminiscing not only a lost paradise during a time of electronic cynism and where digital compression is everywhere, but even a promise land - true love, spiritual feelings, nature’s music, sunshine for everyone.

In terms of sound, Next Year In Zion seems to enlarge and complete the search started with their previous records, notably with the works of their partner in crime, producer and sound engineer Richard Formby - who recorded the duet live on analog tapes with one of the rare EMI sound board the Beatles used to record on at Abbey Road. In so, the duet is offering an actual sound with a sixties undertone, a strange journey where a folk naivety is holding on to happy hopes.

Crew

• David-Ivar Yaya Herman Dune (songwriting, vox, guitar)
• Neman Herman Dune (drums)

Press quotes

«Often tagged as some kind of ‘anti-folk’ outfit thanks to a stripped-down set-up and friendships with the likes of Kimya Dawson and Jeffrey Lewis, Herman Dune’s Next Year In Zion is more of a collection of well-crafted pop songs than a DIY hotchpotch. Although retaining a characteristic air of bittersweet melancholy thanks to the plaintive tones and deft wordplay of singer David-Ivar Herman Dune, this is a decidedly upbeat affair too, an album with love and light pushing almost all the heaviness from its heart.»
MOJO

«Their wry lyrics and storytelling are charming and heartfelt.»
KCRW

«Blissful, fairytale-esque songs.»
KEXP
«While critics have classified Ivar’s ironic wryness as “freakfolk,” there’s nothing freaky about his lamenting love songs. The melodic compositions are unantagonistically pretty, with female-voiced choruses regularly adding angelic fragility to Ivar’s plaintive everyman voice.»
HEEB
«There’s witty dialogue, there’s hearsay, there’s putting words into mouths, there are hearts on all sleeves, there are gleeful rushes where everything feels possible, there’s longing and there’s mighty optimism in every second of these songs that are folky and triumphant in their simplest attributes. Herman Dune dares us to find reasons to just be glad for sunshine.»
DAYTROTTER

Upcoming shows (next month)

Friday, September 3rd

Random Recipe
Trouville-sur-Mer , France @ Off-Courts Trouville
(Off-Courts Trouville )

Saturday, September 4th

Monogrenade
Montréal @ Quais du Vieux-Port
(M sur les Quais)

Radio Radio
Rimouski , QC @ Place des Vétérans (sous le Chapiteau)
(FestiJazz de Rimouski)

Tuesday, September 7th

Radio Radio
Victoriaville , QC @ Cégep de Victoriaville

Friday, September 10th

Monogrenade
Montreal , QC @ Bains Mathieu

Saturday, September 11th

Radio Radio
Ottawa , ON @ Campus de L'Université d'Ottawa
(Frosh Party)

Random Recipe
Trouville-sur-Mer , France @ Off-Courts Trouville (scène extérieur)
(Off-Courts Trouville )

Sunday, September 12th

Radio Radio
Toronto @ Bell Lightbox
(TIFF Bell Lightbox public opening)

Friday, September 17th

Random Recipe
Laval @ Studio Théâtre Salle André-Mathieu
(FANMI SE FANMI)

Monday, September 20th

Radio Radio
Toronto , ON @ CTV's Concert Hall Studios at Toronto's Masonic Temple
(Polaris Music Prize Gala)

Thursday, September 23rd

Random Recipe
Montreal , QC @ Jardin Tiki
(FOLD IT! MOLD IT! ALBUM LAUNCH & SHOW!)

Random Recipe
Montreal , QC @ Jardin Tiki
(A RANDOM RECIPE DECADENT PARTY!)

Friday, October 1st

Radio Radio
Trois-Rivières , QC @ D'Artagnan's

Saturday, October 2nd

Marie-Pierre Arthur
Lavaltrie , QC @ Café culturel de la Chasse-galerie

Radio Radio
Montreal , QC @ Club Soda
(Pop Montreal)

Random Recipe
Montréal @ Studio du Musée Juste Pour Rire
(Pop Montreal)