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Misplaced Moments: 2014

by N.E. Hertzberg

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July 31st 02:37
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August 4th: Another Set 02:38
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August 4th: Of Solid Order 01:59
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August 10th: Merits 04:58
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August 10th: In Moonlight 00:56
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August 10th: Cannot Be Far 02:25
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August 10th: Down and Dwelling 00:50
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August 10th: Every Concern 03:32
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August 10th: From Here On 04:14
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August 10th: No Particular Reasons 03:00
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August 10th: Delight Met 01:22
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October 25th: Concern 04:16
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October 25th: His Extremities 02:46
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October 25th: Their Names Were 01:50
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October 25th: Months Lasted Minutes 03:46
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October 25th: Oh, So Sensible 01:19
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about

"Misplaced Moments” is a series of demos, rough recordings, and incomplete songs that I will be dropping new editions of every few months. As the “2014” notates, this collection was originally recorded within that year. The song titles reflect the date they were conceived, and if any other words are tacked on the back of the dates, it is to help differentiate them from productive same-day sessions.

The idea for this project came to fruition because as a musician, I am ever fascinated by the evolution of a song. From an initial single acoustic guitar cut to a full-band album, the process and progress of song development never cease to amaze me.

As a listener, I currently find myself becoming more entranced by lost and live sessions of musicians. Rough cuts. Early stage work. So on and so forth. It is the building blocks of song that are starting to become more interesting to me than the final polished version. In a day where almost anyone can quantize, pitch shift, and sample their way to a squeaky-clean master recording...I’m far more concerned with the improvisations. The top of the head, instinctual ideas. The flaws.

With that in mind, “Misplaced Moments” can be considered a homage to those fascinations I have as both a listener and as a musician at this time in my life.

For those who don’t know, I am constantly writing demos for my slew of projects, which may either become fully fleshed out in a number of minutes, or months, or just sit and never be completely recognized as an “official” release. In 2014, many of these demos were either for upcoming solo works, the end of These Branches, or the beginning of Like-Minded.

While going through my old hard drives and tapes of such demos a few months ago, I pondered the old adage of “if a tree falls in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” I posed that this could also apply to music: Does a song not exist because no one else has heard it? Does that mean they aren’t worthy of sharing?

Even though I have moved on from many of the ideas represented in this album since their initial recordings, I felt that with around 40 minutes of music, the span of a typical full-length album, it was time to allow these songs to fully come to life in their own way. Some of these fragments may appear in new projects I work on in the future...some of them may never change from what they are here...and some may have sub-consciously appeared already, somewhere in my catalog: and that is all fine with me. Documenting the progress and process of what could have just been simply deleted or discarded is what counts in “Misplaced Moments.”

The artwork for each of these collections will also be cultivated from the year that the songs have stemmed. In this case, the cover is a picture of my dog, Bambi, and I in a snowstorm during the year 2014. In a case of universally tragic irony, I chose the album cover photo just one week before Bambi passed away. She was just short of 10 years old and I miss her tremendously.

From a production standpoint, these songs were all recorded on either a phone, to cassette tape, or on a simple computer rig, mostly with a single microphone. Any tracks that have a few instruments being played at once were probably looped live. You will hear imperfections in timing and tuning, pedal clicks, and voice memos I left myself to remember how to play the song. No additional mixing was done to the songs from the original state they were in. To help with the differences in setups and instrumentation, I put them through a simple mastering chain to help spread them out sonically and balance the volumes.

I hope you enjoy this first round of my "Misplaced Moments" from the year 2014.

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released October 23, 2018

Written, recorded, mastered and layout by
Nicholas Edward Hertzberg

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