Month: June 2017

Broadjam Artist: Lisa Vivienne
Song: Holy Lullaby

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: It’s a sweet Jesus Lullaby! So pretty! The introduction sets the song up nicely for the gentle, loving female vocal that’s right on target pitch-wise. The idea of the song is very original…a prayer asking the Lord to sing her a lullaby…never heard anything like that before. The production and instrumentation are top notch. I absolutely love the piano and guitar coming in…whoever produced this did an amazing job. Keep up the good work!

Constructive Comments: I think the strongest part (lyrically) of your song is the first verse the weakest is the last verse. Rhyming find with found…just doesn’t work for me. The only other lyrical problem I noted was “It lifts me up so high it’s hard to breathe.” That’s problematic. You can use the breathless thing for falling in love. I’ve been in high elevations where it’s hard to breathe…but that is not a pleasant sensation. So when I am picturing this…it’s not a comfortable word picture for a lullaby. Maybe that’s picky, but I’m trying to be constructive. Hold me, Holy. That SOUNDS good but it’s like….holy is an adjective. So that doesn’t work for me, either. I think that you should make your outro as beautiful as your intro. Why not end the song with the same sweetness it began with? Anyway, I really do like your song!

Broadjam Artist: Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods
Song: This Is The Day

Reviewer: Janet Murphy

Positive Comments: Very good radio ready voice

Constructive Comments: Sometimes song drags a little for me. Best of luck to you!

Broadjam Artist: Craig William MacLeod
Song: Winter Blues (And Greens)

Reviewer: Nick Kushner

Positive Comments: I love the mixing of the slide guitar (or dobro) and the strings. The bass sounds very good high up in the mix like that. This song has a very relaxed vibe to it. Great job!

Constructive Comments: Not much here.

Broadjam Artist: Chip Salerno
Song: They Won’t Suspect a Thing

Reviewer: Nick Kushner

Positive Comments: I love the pizzicato of the strings! Sounds like tiptoeing. The vibes go very well on top of the strings.

Constructive Comments: Too short.

Broadjam Artist: Calico King
Song: Fugue State

Reviewer: Nick Kushner

Positive Comments: Very well constructed and recorded. Excellent piano playing! All instruments can be heard very clearly. Very impressive. Many different parts and moods. Also love the drumming towards the end. Great job!

Constructive Comments: Not much to suggest.

Broadjam Artist: Mitch Siegal
Song: Time To Fly

Reviewer: Randal Dunkle

Positive Comments: I love the guitar at the beginning of the song, I also like the sound of the vocals,all the instruments blend very well together, the keyboard really gives it a beautiful fullness. Vocals sound a little like David Gates.

Constructive Comments: I really like this song, the only thing that I don’t like is the first chorus, it is hard to understand. Also I think there is great power in the second chorus where the singer is talking rather than singing, I would try to incorporate this in the first verse as well – best wishes!

Broadjam Artist: Lisa Vivienne
Song: Holy Lullaby

Reviewer: HarryBudini

Positive Comments: The music is very musical, the melody is very melodious, the voice is uhm vociferous? No, really, it’s a sweet and tuneful voice. The pieno twinkles pleasantly, as the whole song as a whole song. Although if it was a song sung aboard of the Pequod by captain Achab, it’d be a whale song.

Constructive Comments: Lord, forgive me if I’m atheist.

Broadjam Artist: Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods
Song: Wisdom of the Darkness / Hard Rock

Reviewer: XS Paradigm

Positive Comments: Nicely done guitars, strong theme. Nice to hear instrumental hard rock of course. Without a vocal focus the other instruments may need a more active roll in determining as structure especially as the first part went by without too much change. But it’s in tune, time and has a due sense of tension. Could be part of something else, a larger work perhaps.

Constructive Comments: Would work on a soundtrack as is. However if it were a stand alone piece perhaps the lead section would come in earlier. Possibly synth orchestration could also come n to vary the tonality, and build it, reinforcing the harmony. Having said that a contrasting rhythmic part would vary it and make it seem to go by even quicker especially as the tempo is quite slow – which is okay of course, it may just dd tension and variety.

Broadjam Artist: The Song Writers
Song: Dance with “Cyndi corkraN”

Reviewer: FRED GROSS

Positive Comments: interesting. kinda psychedelic sounding. vocals all over the place like a dream floating thru your head. or on drugs. this could definitely fit a film synch of some kind. nice job!

Constructive Comments: nothing to add here.

Broadjam Artist: The Dots
Song: On Target

Reviewer: FRED GROSS

Positive Comments: I like the female vocals. would have been cool to hear some harmonies come in when she changes to the higher octive. A bridge would also help the song out a bit, as it gets a little repeatative after awhile. Definitley has potential though!

Constructive Comments: The tone of the guitar could be a lot better, and the song needs more fullness, maybe not in the beginning but as it builds a more full bad ass sound would add to the production and really rock it out to the end. still, good potential.