Song Title:
“i would rather never see my loved ones again than see you stand above a lingering and shaking crowd, mimicking children caught in a lie”
Genre:
Ambient, Drone, Experimental-Classical
Run Time:
22:02
Details
Composed, recorded and mixed at Mary’s Quilt Records-North in Kirkland, Washington on January 15th and 16th, 2019.
Initially self-released on January 16, 2019
Re-masterd by Simon Scott @ SPS (Slowdive drummer, Composer & Producer) June 2020
Digital-only re-release on Mary’s Quilt Records July 3rd, 2020
Song Art:
Similar Artists:
Eluvium, Fennesz, willamette, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
More track detail
We are proud to introduce Pre-Kinetic Blueprint and their first official release via Mary’s Quilt Records in digital-only format released July 10th, 2020 titled “i would rather never see my loved ones again than see you stand above a lingering and shaking crowd, mimicking children caught in a lie”.
The track spans just over 22 minutes and consists of multiple ambient-experimental-drone movements which in typical PKB fashion can be loosely compared to the cadence and structure of a classical symphonic composition.
Re-mastered by Simon Scott in the spring of 2020. Composed, recorded and originally mastered over the two day period of January 15th-16th, 2019 and was originally self-released in digital format immediately after completion on January 16th, 2019.
About Pre-Kinetic Blueprint (PKB):
Pre-Kinetic Blueprint is the stylistically challenging-to-define solo project of Portland, Oregon based multi-faceted artist Harley Nerheim-Chereck. PKB’s improvisational stream-of-conscious compositions are typically long-form and comprised of multiple ambient-symphonic movements or scenes combining a unique blend of Ambient, Drone and Experimental-Classical with Industrial and Post-Rock undertones at times.
PKB’s style can at times be compared to Eluvium, Fennesz, willamette, Tim Hecker, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Brian Eno, Hanz Zimmer, Stars Of The Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Grouper and even murmurs of Holst and Respighi however he is truly discovering these compositions as he moves through them, not necessarily intentionally prescribing to any specific genre.
Harley describes his music as “Post Kinetic” or “traveling through an auditory representation of emotion or emotions after an event that has moved us”. His compositions are abstract representations of elemental human experiences, either static or transforming from one state to another throughout each piece, creating an experiential narrative for the listener to travel through with him.
PKB’s compositions are typically composed by Harley as improvisational stream of conscious first takes using various affected instruments simply layered on top of each other either live or over a minimal number of tracks. Very little if any editing is performed on his compositions leaving an organic final product that is simply based on the emotions that he is experiencing at the time of recording.
Nearly all of PKB’s compositions are composed, recorded and mastered within a single day. In fact the tracks that make up PKB’s first three albums released on Soundcloud were uploaded prior to him listening to the final mastered songs, allowing him to experience them in their final public state for the first time just as his listeners do.
Each song’s title is typically chosen immediately after the completion of the composition and loosely represents the emotions that were discovered through the creation of the piece.
Since his first self released composition in early 2016, PKB has digitally released 4 full albums of material on Soundcloud and via the film score to his recognized experimental film “Field Notes”.
To date PKB has an additional 5 full albums of material completed and ready to release in addition to the scores to two additional short experimental films he produced “paulie (the tourist)” and “standing still for an hour not moving”.
PKB’s first full length album on Mary’s Quilt Records “but we’re not sure what to prescribe you” is scheduled for release in August 2020.
Our Humble Opinion:
PKB is creating a highly emotional human narrative through his ambient compositions which we at Mary’s Quilt define stylistically as “Ambient-Experimental Romanticism”. We’ve personally yet to experience an artist who conveys such a complex and powerful human narrative in this way through the vehicle of ambient, experimental and drone.
Without a clear reference we dare to compare PKB to Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sans the percussive and heavy rock elements) in that his compositions typically take us on a long and challenging emotional journey through multiple movements that in the end leaves us with the feeling that we’ve experienced something outside of our own comfortable world.
PKB challenges us to sit and absorb the emotion of the moments he creates and if we are open to it and trust his voice we are drawn into his world which at times can be overwhelming. Given his core creative process is improvisational it makes his compositions all the more powerful.
Harley is a fearless and prolific composer, not tethered to a time signature, construct or genre that he needs to fit his music into. His compositions are as long as they need to be and at any given time fragile, delicate, beautiful, enlightening, disorienting, harsh, broken or disturbing however the common thread throughout is always a fundamental and honest humanity which we find deeply moving.
About Harley:
Harley Nerheim-Chereck is a prolific multi-faceted artist as a published poet, recognized filmmaker, composer, performer, visual artist and photographer from Portland, Oregon.
After having several poems and visual art pieces recognized while attending Oregon State University, Harley first gained national notoriety with his 35 minute indie experimental film titled “Field Notes” in which he wrote, directed, scored and starred in and was selected by the 2017 Cinema New York City and Madrid Film Festivals. The film features four original improvisational compositions by PKB that were the initial inspiration for the creation of the film.
Additional Links.
Field Notes: (2017 Cinema New York City and Madrid Film Festival selections)
Paulie (the tourist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW_IdExH9-Q
achtung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXo1ojLfupk&t=42s
standing still for an hour not moving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFFHzpLZtw
or better yet, migrating through zimmermans complex – world premier recorded live @ Mary’s Quilt Picnic in Portland, Oregon on September 14, 2019. (from PKB’s sixth full-length album due late 2020)
About Mary’s Quilt
Mary’s Quilt Records is a non-profit, independent, artist-owned and ran record label collective based in Portland, Oregon which was created to help encourage, support and expose deserving under-served artists to the world (or perhaps help re-invent what it means to be a working musician).
Mary’s Quilt is 100% not for profit and takes absolutely no money, licensing rights or ownership of anything from the artists who have been chosen to be a part of the MQ record label collective. Mary’s Quilt exists entirely through donations and volunteer efforts of our artists and support team. The only requirement Mary’s Quilt asks of our members is that they do whatever they can, whenever they can to help other MQ artists in need by donating their passion, knowledge and time. Mary’s Quilt’s endeavour is to empower our artists to become “successful” independent artists, collective members and most importantly human beings.
The Mary’s Quilt namesake comes from a quilt that the late Mary Nerheim made and was used as a sound block for Myriam Nerheim-Chereck’s early recordings (The Couch Scene, Carbon Lake).
Mary’s legacy lives on through the love, support and encouragement that the quilt of our community of passionate caring collective members can offer to each other. Mary’s actual quilt is also always present (as is Mary herself in spirit) in all the recordings produced at Mary’s Quilt Studios in Portland, Oregon.
To learn more about Mary’s Quilt Records visit Marysquilt.com.
For more information, contact:
Mary’s Quilt Records
4629 NE 35th Pl.
Portland, Oregon 97211
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