Debuting to the world in 2005, he tucked “modest signal” into the grooves of vinyl with the help of Natural Born, SP (of the Starving Artists Crew), & Obsidian Blue. Molding a 3 piece composition that forecast the potential of what’s to come. A teaser for the traditionalist, a clarion call to the disenchanted. 2007 marked the return of the prodigal musician. Bringing with him a collection of works & re-works that struck the familiar chords, but with a slight twist for the discerning listener. Informed by the golden era of hip-hop, but make no mistakes about this being a revivalist affair. There’s little romanticizing, but a touch of loving homage & acknowledging nods throughout the project. All while delivering his perspectives and observations of a slightly stylized reality. Assisted by the familiar cast of Natural Born, SP, & Obsidian Blue, as well as the talents of tREBLEFREE, Katrah-Quey, Mr. Keyes, DJ Brasco, and Volta Masters providing arrangements to envelop the vibrations PreciseHero transmitted. Never known to overstay his welcome, PreciseHero once again dissolved into the ether. Quietly peeking his head out of the clouds just long enough to survey the land, work with his Osaka-native brother Kimi, & vanish again. Although, there wasn’t totally dormancy – in 2009 he began collaborating with Obsidian Blue, Velben, Moona, & Celia Calle to speak a bit of “Daydreamer Dialogue”. In 2010, they unleashed said project of latent nostalgia, surrealism, & lamentations. The soundtrack to a quarter-life crisis as Hero self describes it. A mixture of life happenings & the ever-present pressures of such, the process of crafting the project, the creative landscape, & other factors had taken their toll on PreciseHero and caused a total retreat into introversion. For a month of Sunday’s there were no songs; Save for when he pushed out a few promo jams for Gaijin Games’ BIT.TRIP series & added flavor to Suburban Sprawl’s Holiday Sampler. Word of total retirement was spread to all within earshot, but that wouldn’t be a good ending to this story, now would it? The story picks up sometime after the credits. Gently coerced by a supportive cast, the Summer of 2011 was the start of the fourth season. Doing away with prior pretenses, expectations, & rules – PreciseHero was feeling the needed freeness to resume creating with a new found verve. Self releasing a deluge of sounds & moods chiefly inspired by a refreshed interest in short writing & collaging words, in addition to a healthy dose of everything that he’s absorbed over the years. Years of literature, conversations overheard in passing, pictures, comics, television, video games, music, films, the changing seasons, friends, family, strangers, everyone, and everything else that a person would come in contact with by simply existing. Every element tossed together, rearranged, warped and fed through a filter of distortion, echoes, fuzz, & flange. Panning around like a panoramic kaleidoscope in the listener’s ears. Scenes, vignettes, characters, & stories melded together in a psychedelic excursion. Instead of the expected circle of colleagues, this suite was chiefly concocted by Hero himself after being mentored by tREBLEFREE. Not totally devoid of guest contributions, Zach Curd provides the arrangement of “Arthur Lapsed” & Starling Electric add pastel harmonies + lucent instrumentation to “Caterpillar”. It feels like a return to the original dream that birthed PreciseHero. He holds a hand out to welcome the willing into a state between sleeping & awake. That lucid time that’s neither late at night or early in the morning, when it’s so quiet that you feel like the only being alive. It’s also within the same week that you noticed that the snow had melted & blossoms were developing on the trees. And, only a day before you thought of an adventure you went on when you were 6 years old. It’s all the same story, along the same time line, it’s all “Canon”. There was a mild delay, but “Canon” saw a release in Japan on Oct. 24th 2012 and all while the world was on the trail of his shadow, PreciseHero provided the BGM to an in limbo/scrapped video game project dubbed, “In The Reverie”, then moved on to an on-going series of collaborative singles under the umbrella title “Crossed”. This has all been a snaking road of hours & miles, and it was time to bring it to a finale… or maybe an extended pause, but before dissapating into the vapor between the sea & sky - he teamed up with Obsidian Blue once more for a proper follow-up to “Daydreamer Dialogue”. Leashing the name “Good Nature.” to the project the duo began work in late 2012 & set it for delivery in the new year. What’s next for Hero? What’s more for Hero? You’ll know shortly after he does, but there’s always a chance that further adventures and swan songs are sure to come along some day… END? |
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