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Herman Dune started as children in 1990

In 1999 they recorded their first album

They started touring internationally thanks to the support of UK DJ John Peel who played their songs on the BBC and invited them to record many of his famous 'Peel Sessions'

Though lyric-based and song-oriented, Herman Dune's music leans toward performance and improvisation, with songs changing entirely in their arrangement from one show or recording to the other. Hearing a song played at a show as an acoustic folk ballad doesn't mean it won't be recorded as a heavy electric tune, or the other way around.

David Ivar strums, sings and often goes into free soloing on electric guitar with Neman's strong back beat and sparse hits sometimes also leading to improvised rhythmic solos. Drawing essentially from Country music, American Folk tradition, the Blues and the Rock & Roll as influences for writing, their sound often has them associated with Lo-Fi, Punk-Rock, Indie-Rock or Anti-Folk Music although they never claimed any of those labels.

Their early albums were recorded as a trio, with two guitars and drums, but no bass. Brothers David Ivar and André were then sharing the lead vocal parts, each one of them singing the songs he'd written. André stopped playing or writing with Herman Dune in 2006, leaving David Ivar alone at the microphone, and sole frontman for the band.

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