Month: June 2018

Broadjam Artist: Rob Cohen
Song: Daze Days

Reviewer: MGB

Positive Comments: Very chilling and eerie sounding piece. Fantastic transitions and always a surprise around the corner. If your intention is for this to be used in a thriller or horror movie, I can’t think of anything that could be any better.

Constructive Comments: Very cool piece.

Broadjam Artist: Massimo Carola
Song: Manname l’ammore

Reviewer: David James

Positive Comments: The intro is excellent and sets the scene perfectly. I love the passionate mood of the song. The vocal is perfect as is wonderful instrumentation. Lovely change at 0.53. A very melodic song. Very well recorded with great sound quality.

Constructive Comments: I haven’t marked the lyrics as I don’t understand the words, (Portuguese?). I’ve given a well deserved 5 for each category. This is really excellent.

Broadjam Artist: Massimo Carola
Song: Mediterraneo

Reviewer: Jeff Maguire

Positive Comments: Moody and melodic piece that reminds me a bit of some of the modern jazz stuff coming out of places like ECM, maybe a bit like the band Oregon. Nice guitar playing with tasteful phrasing and note choice.

Constructive Comments: I would expect a 6 minute piece to do a little more than play repetitively against a pedal, the change at three minutes was nice and began to lift the dynamic but then it just … went away. So I wonder why is it even there. Unless you really want it to do what is essentially nothing or have it synced to something else. It really does remind me a bit of Ralph Towner and Oregon, at least as far as the overall vibe and tone. There are people that like this kind of thing, get it to them and it could find a home.

Broadjam Artist: Chet Nichols
Song: Twenty Years Ago (Instrumental)

Reviewer: Jeff Roberts

Positive Comments: Whoah there is so much I’m already loving in this tune. I’m hearing some of my absolute favorite chord/voicing tricks, and 12 string is always instant mood. I am just loving this tune–it’s such a heart lifting tune with a lot of simple grace and inspired playing. The syncopated answering sequence after the first main sequence is great, and the first hard V I resolution at :12 – :13 is so sweet with the slight delay in the rhythm. Jeez I’ve played this a bunch of times, and just loving every one. Wonderful work–what a great start to Monday.

Constructive Comments: Keep in mind I love this tune–I’m reviewing with a producer’s ear here…At :19 you’re playing a bridge instead of a verse part. With a spare instrumental like this you’ve got to have something that really bangs a theme–and it doesn’t have to be busy–you’re already killing it in the intro. And again at 1:32 the same part–the major to major 7 chord isn’t fitting with the rest of the vibe to my ears, and there’s always the cheese danger with M7. And then going to dom7 is just too much of a turnaround feel before its time. Also the chord chopping loses the graceful flow you had. This is a pretty serious flaw IMOThe intro is a little awkward–mainly because it’s so obvious that the slide and the opening chords are different takes.I think the snare is too hard and the gated reverb on it is too much for the vibe–this is the strongest negative I’d offer. A nice wire snap with only room ambience would be better I think.A tambourine part would add a lot of groove to this.The recording of the 12 string is a bit bass heavy–if you could get a bit more 5-7K boost in the tone and roll off the <200K I think it would have a sweeter and more present sound but it's already very good.Does it want a relative minor middle section? There's no real tension yet.

Broadjam Artist: My Equinox Divine
Song: Psycho

Reviewer: MGB

Positive Comments: Really well written and well produced tune. Top notch arrangement. The great energy of this is what stands out the most. Really good hook and great vocals. A lot of cool things happening in this piece.

Constructive Comments: Really good work.

Broadjam Artist: Janet Murphy
Song: Washington Needs Washing Down

Reviewer: MGB

Positive Comments: Very well-written, well arranged piece with a really good message. Very relaxing vocals and vocal mix and just a jazzy, relaxing feel to the whole piece. Good work.

Constructive Comments: Really good tune.

Broadjam Artist: Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods
Song: No More Sundays / Modern Jazz

Reviewer: Randal Dunkle

Positive Comments: I love the way the keyboard sounds especially when the song starts out, very cool woodwinds and horns as well.

Constructive Comments: Great sound, very cool jazz song – the only thing that I would change is the frequency of the song, it sounds just a little on the high frequency side of things – best wishes!

Broadjam Artist: Earkandi
Song: Crazy

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: The songwriter asks a lot of questions and the only answer he can come up with is….”God Only Knows.” Sometimes the best answer for that which we cannot figure out. The song has a pleasant, positive, upbeat feel to it which engages the listener from the very start. Fun intro. Love these lyrics: How do you move a mind of stone? Where has the human kindness gone? There are some really original, fresh lyrics in this song. Nice instrumentation and vocals are pretty clear. Love the percussion/tambourine. Like the slave/church verse. Nicely produced.

Constructive Comments: After I finish this review, I want to read the lyrics to see if I can understand where you are going with this song. I listened twice and I really like it. You have a very fresh approach to songwriting. I really enjoyed listening to your song. Love the positive feel!

Broadjam Artist: Kate Carpenter
Song: There’s a Kingdom

Reviewer: amy abernathy

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Broadjam Artist: Massimo Carola
Song: Go to hell

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: Powerful introduction. Male vocal opens and female vocal comes in just as powerful. Song has an angry, aggressive feel to it. “Don’t step on my tail” catchy, original hook. The production is amazing, such a full sound, very well-thought out. Somebody worked really hard on this and the talent shines. Love the rolling out vocals. Background vocals are dynamic.

Constructive Comments: I really don’t know what you are singing about, but it sounds good. It would be great if I could make out more of the lyrics. It’s like sort of clear but I just “don’t get it”. Could be my age (65). Ending is rather abrupt. What’s with the foreign language spoken word at the end? Seems out of place.