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L-r: Michael Melton, Steve Salevan and Andrew Ferry of Vox Cadre. Photo courtesy Vox Cadre
A Sound Idea Tatnall classmates reunite after decades; perform weekly livestream concerts as Vox Cadre By Ken Mammarella
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wo decades after they bonded in band, chorus and theater at Tatnall, 2004 alumni Andrew Ferry, Michael Melton and Steve Salevan are livestreaming weekly concerts and are readying their first single. As Vox Cadre, they make “synthesized music for a synthesized future.” After years of separately writing and performing music, they jelled at a 2016 jam in San Francisco and decided to together cook up an EP. The EP features “All I Wanted” as the A-side and “All My Friends” as the B-side. “It may or may not be inspired by a television show,” Melton said on their 51st stream about “All My Friends.”
The two songs join five they have posted on voxcadre.com, plus hundreds of what they called “partially baked ideas” to pull up at a moment’s notice. “So much of music is finding the right ingredients,” Salevan said of the culinary imagery he repeated during an interview from the 3½-bedroom Manhattan apartment they share with Ferry’s wife, a cat and so much equipment that they call it “a synthesizer commune.” Melton and Salevan share duties as lead singers, while Ferry “brings out the voice of the band” as the sound engineer, said Melton, the primary lyricist. Their lives diverged after Tatnall. ► JUNE JUNE 2021 2021 || OUTANDABOUTNOW.COM OUTANDABOUTNOW.COM XX 45
