Month: March 2017

Broadjam Artist: Jeff Ashbaker
Song: Question Your Motives

Reviewer: James Neilson Graham

Positive Comments: Tight groove, strong lived-in voice, intriguing lyrics, dramatic use of silence, nice guitar work, everything hangs together. The female voice entering in the middle adds a new dimension. Nice work!

Constructive Comments: Can’t fault the song.

Broadjam Artist: Jeff Maguire
Song: Elvis On A Telephone Pole

Reviewer: Floyd Kelly

Positive Comments: My bro wants to put this song on his playlist for our Friday night tailgate parties. We’re playing this here in our home today. Mom is rocking and jiggling – dad just fell over onto the cat. Sis is not in a good mood this morning, she’s yelling at us to turn this down LOL.

Constructive Comments: Sorry we took off a mark in Recording. We played this at 33% usual volume for all Broadjam listening – and this track seemed lower than usual. Still enjoyable and fun! Thanks. Have a good day.

Broadjam Artist: HarryBudini
Song: Ecidius

Reviewer: Floyd Kelly

Positive Comments: I love my microwave burritos! I eat ’em all the time. The most anxious of moments are when I pop the yummy goodness into the microwave and stare at it rotating through the oven’s glass. The wait is agonizing I tell ya! I love music that helps these moments pass with ease. I found this piece of music in the New Age genre – but seems more fitting for my playlist when I’m hungry for a microwave burrito. Ole!

Constructive Comments: I placed this in the World genre. I wasn’t sure as for New Age genre. I do like to have positive times when reviewing music so that explains my humor above. In my opinion only, I think that second keypad backing the piano would have been nicer with a sampled legato string section. I think more could be added to this by way of instruments to give it a really nice New Age feel. We hope you have a good day.

Broadjam Artist: Chet Nichols
Song: I Was Dreaming (Instrumental)

Reviewer: Floyd Kelly

Positive Comments: My mom wants to put this on her playlist for when she’s driving the highway to work and back. My mom and myself agree, this is a nice smooth jazzy number with some “pick-me-up” percussion. Dad is banging on the wall, letting us know to turn it down. Gotta go!

Constructive Comments: This is a nice musical number. I was hoping for some pauses or breaks along the way of this musical journey. Was hoping to hear some solos of the different instruments. There seems to be some repetition and something is needed in this, I think, to bring more dynamics in the composition. I think the drums were a little much, but that is my taste in percussion elements. Please remember, until now, we haver never heard this, we do not know the artist or where this comes from. Overall we did enjoy the music. Have a good day.

Broadjam Artist: Tom Reardon
Song: Changed My Life

Reviewer: Geoff Martin Preston

Positive Comments: This song flows nicely with a driving rhythm throughout. I like the vocal harmonies and the mix is nicely balanced with no particular vocal or instrument competing to be out front. The arrangement was polished and a good standard structure. The song is catchy and I can easily hear this on a Netflix or Amazon series soundtrack. Very nice work and hope to listen in on more of the same.

Constructive Comments: I think you achieved what you set out to do with is song and it is working. As I said above it fits for a number of contemporary US TV series genres particularly girl meets boy, girl loses boy and boy finds girl again themes. The standard success structure of most movies or shows. Well done again and keep it coming.

Broadjam Artist: Kate Carpenter
Song: Secret Agent 4 Jesus Instrumental

Reviewer: Zeiko

Positive Comments: Nice funky song, quite creative.

Constructive Comments: Mixing:You need to increase the base, get a more distinct rymth and get more of a punching kick to it.I lack a catchy melody that got stuck in your head.

Broadjam Artist: Top Dead Center
Song: Let’s Ride

Reviewer: Jeff Roberts

Positive Comments: This reminds me of Blackfoot, Y & T, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Dokken, April Wine, Schencker, etc from late 70’s early 80’s, with Captain Beefheart guesting on vocals. There’s a boogie beat underneath all the guitar work, so all the Jersey chicks with hair puffed five inches above their heads could be out dancing in their sprayed-on jeans. The guitars are classic hard rock–you can’t play these licks without sticking your tongue out at all the fourteen year boys that wanna be you up there. It’s really a perfectly executed tune in the style.

Constructive Comments: IMO you’re taking it a bit too far with the vocal overdrive. I’d argue for keeping the gravel but bring it back to where it’s gritty not totally gob-spitting, raving pschizophrenic. Then you could hear the lyrics better. As in the other review I’d like the guitars better if you dialed back a bit and took the harmonic rasp out of the tone and made it overdriven, tubes honkin tasty breakup. This has more impact–the paradoxical thing about distortion is that as it gets raspier it has less gut impact.

Broadjam Artist: Norb Studelska/Upper Air Disturbance
Song: Aire In A Minor

Reviewer: Zeiko

Positive Comments: Nice melodies, good quality on instrumentation, I like it!I think it would fit good in some movie.

Constructive Comments: I can’t find anything I would like to change, good work!

Broadjam Artist: Moonstone Moods
Song: Rain

Reviewer: RICARDO ALONSO

Positive Comments: Love the intro, the mood, instrumentation, beat until part B (2:00 min aprox.) where I was expecting the song to explode!!, instead, change melody but mantained the mood and in my opinion, began to decay the song (maybe IM to energetic right now).

Constructive Comments: mainly I write above almost completely. Voice is Ok but has too much reverb and higher in the mix, that makes difficult to undersatnd lyrics. In conclusion you have something here and is good.

Broadjam Artist: Top Dead Center
Song: Flying High

Reviewer: RICARDO ALONSO

Positive Comments: this song is energetic, almost savage!, like a lot the intro and development of the song instrumentally.

Constructive Comments: the overall mix is dull, song begins very good but at the middle starts to decay, Singer, shouts more than singing and obviously needs technical treatment in the recording.