Month: December 2017

Broadjam Artist: Rocky Larson
Song: One day

Reviewer: Jeff Roberts

Positive Comments: I’d call this New Age, and very good at that. Classical puts you in the company of Chopin, Schumann, and Lizst–who can hang with them? Really nice development of the theme through arrangement and choice of instrumental voices. Really melancholy and beautiful work!!

Constructive Comments: This is excellent as is!! The string patches are maybe a tad too strong in the mix, but that’s arguable.

Broadjam Artist: Spider kiting
Song: Who stole the sun

Reviewer: Patrick E. Muth/Catnip Pat

Positive Comments: VERY NICE REMINDS ME OF WINTER

Constructive Comments: SMOOTH AND COOL IT WAS SO YOUNG! HA HA! GREAT!

Broadjam Artist: Kate Carpenter
Song: Apart from Me

Reviewer: Patrick E. Muth/Catnip Pat

Positive Comments: Isnt it nice to be the one? You will not survive/ YOUR PUPPY? WHO? STRANGE!! PLEASE EXPLAIN! THANKS!

Constructive Comments: Rewrite might save this song!

Broadjam Artist: Spider kiting
Song: Cool kids under the lights

Reviewer: Patrick E. Muth/Catnip Pat

Positive Comments: sounds out of tune to me

Constructive Comments: Good Luck!

Broadjam Artist: The Guinetones
Song: Die in Comfort

Reviewer: Patrick E. Muth/Catnip Pat

Positive Comments: reality strikes again!

Constructive Comments: Groovy and spooky at the same time!Look for the Dove—-Music is Love! catnip=+=

Broadjam Artist: Yung Proof
Song: Because I’m Brown

Reviewer: Patrick E. Muth/Catnip Pat

Positive Comments: Don’t Approve your angle You can make the same point much stronger using a different approachMy mother said “You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar!”

Constructive Comments: As above sit down and try to say the same thing like Ghandi, or Martin Luther King would! Don’t ever be afraid to do a rewrite because you find that you can usually do it better if you will just try! You don’t want to focus on violence when you can move more people with love and compassion!Look for the Dove–Music is Love! Catnip =+=

Broadjam Artist: Jeff Roberts
Song: God Only Knows

Reviewer: David James

Positive Comments: I like the drum intro and the way the guitar chords kick in. The vocal is really strong. Nice bridge at 1.50. The musicianship is excellent. I really like the rhythm track. Lovely guitar patch. Nicely mastered.

Constructive Comments: I feel the ‘God only knows’ line could be expanded into a fuller chorus. It sounds unresolved somehow..it’s a powerful line that needs to be taken further either lyrically or with a change of pace instrumentally. I think the song cries out for a guitar solo, not too long but perhaps as an outro to leave the listener with the epic mood that the ‘God only knows’ line suggests.

Broadjam Artist: Randy Steward
Song: You and I

Reviewer: Birthe Noer Myers

Positive Comments: A real folk song with ‘woompa, woompadrum beat, but this one is not tiresome, it is quite wonderful, The singing voice is very pleasant, the lyrics are audible and clear, and very nice. And the fiddle is a joy to hear, it is very good. In this song I even like the Woompa……… You have a very good song here, I wish you much luck with it.

Constructive Comments: I have nothing negative to say. I think this is a gem. I like the tinny catch in the singing voice , as if the song comes to a corner.

Broadjam Artist: Bob Bentley
Song: Time To Think

Reviewer: Birthe Noer Myers

Positive Comments: Such a smooth and easy voice, so easy to listen to, true and smooth, This is an interesting song it is autobiography as lyric. “This is what we did that time, remember and if you don’t remember, I do, I remember every moment……………….etc.The song is so sweet and pleasant that you can hear it often and still enjoy the plummy voice.

Constructive Comments: As always, I find the percussion too loud and too insisting. But that is absolutely a private opinion. Folk and country music ‘grew’ to drums and bassoons. very enjoyable song.

Broadjam Artist: Kate Carpenter
Song: Out of the Mouths of Babes

Reviewer: Birthe Noer Myers

Positive Comments: Very sweet. A religious lullaby, more a musical prayer than a good night baby lullaby.I like the ‘ALMOST atonal, false sounding corners of the refrain. The singing voice is lovely, warm and loving and endearingly fragile’ I would like to hear this as I am falling asleep.

Constructive Comments: there is a little too much instrumental music , It would be lighter and more elegant without yhr hrsvyguitar , but maybe people like that – I am not fond of it. The voice should be strongest,