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A Dead Forest Index
Australian musical project From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Dead Forest Index is a musical project formed by brothers Adam Sherry and Sam Sherry in 2008 in Melbourne, Australia.[1]
History
Adam and Sam Sherry are originally from New Zealand, writing and performing as a minimalist two-piece, based between Melbourne and London.
In 2012, A Dead Forest Index released an EP entitled Antique with Denovali Records[2] and in 2013 the duo were invited to support the band Savages on a UK tour.[3] Following on from supporting Savages, having caught the attention of Savages’ singer and Pop Noire label co- founder Jehnny Beth, the duo released the EP Cast of Lines with the label Pop Noire in 2014.[4]
The duo released their debut album In All That Drifts from Summit Down with US label Sargent House in 2016 and were invited to support Chelsea Wolfe on a tour of North America.[5][6]
In 2016, Gemma Thompson, guitarist of the band Savages married Sam Sherry and features on the single Myth Retraced.[7]
In 2017, A Dead Forest Index were invited to collaborate with the Italian dance company Dewey Dell to compose a choral composition inspired by the Sardinian Cantu a tenores.[8] The composition Deriva Traversa was premiered at festivals Danza Urbana in Bologna[8] and Città delle 100 Scale Festival in Matera.[9]
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Other projects
In 2015, A Dead Forest Index collaborated with the band Savages when they were invited to write and perform together as an ensemble alongside choreographer/dance artist Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome for Doug Aitken’s Station to Station Festival at the Barbican.[10] The performance of the piece In What I’m Seeing: The Sun was recorded live onto vinyl.[11]
In 2018, Adam and Sam Sherry formed the trio Unmoor Kiva with Savages’ guitarist Gemma Thompson.[3]
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Members
Adam Sherry - vocals, guitar
Sam Sherry - vocals, percussion
Discography
Collaborative albums
In What I'm Seeing; The Sun (2015) (with Savages)
References
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