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pete bernhard

5/8/2020

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​Pete Bernhard (from the album Harmony Ascension Division available on Kahn Records)
The themes on Harmony Ascension Division are divided in three columns to match its title, the subjects on the Pete Bernhard solo outing within reach as a personal accounting. The topics are explained by Pete Bernhard as ‘this record is about friendships, relationships, success, happiness and failure. Harmony. Ascension. Division. Many of these songs are about friends from my early teens and ‘20s so I thought the best way to talk about them would be by playing the way I did back then’.  Pete is referencing his time prior to tenure as frontman for The Devil Makes Three, the setting from the past putting man and guitar center stage. Folk music is the style Pete Bernhard on Harmony Ascension Division as he steps away from the TDM3 model of buskers on steroids that he has helped develop. 
Blues is in the picking underneath the tale in “Land of Milk and Honey”, Pete Bernhard’s fingers flying as he lists accomplishments in excess for “Down the Line” and builds a heartbeart for the guitar string rhythms in “Waiting for You”. The recording of Harmony Ascension Division was scheduled between touring stops for The Devil Make Three, Pete Bernhard returning to his home state of Vermont. The story of old friends and lovers finding a way through the world opens Harmony Ascension Divisionwith “I Knew You” as Pete Bernhard leans in close for the advice and opinions of “Long Night”, finds “Fool’s Gold” in a tangled melody, and exits the album on the effervescent bubbles rising from the beat and storyline of “Lightning”.
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