Month: August 2018

Broadjam Artist: max quaini
Song: do you think you are a star

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: Tremendous musicianship in here! Great!

Constructive Comments: I’m guessing this is the instrumental version of a tune you also have uploaded here with a vocal line. Tons of energy!

Broadjam Artist: Massa
Song: Worn Out Working 2

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: Good arrangement between the instruments. Good idea to use the vocal harmonies in the chorus. Great mouth organ playing too. He knows his stuff! Reminded me in places of Lynard Skynard.

Constructive Comments: Nothing to really add as I am not an aficionado when it comes to country…………………works fine as it is.

Broadjam Artist: MGB
Song: WOULDN’T LIFE BE EASY?

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: Loved the vocal sound – very commercial.

Constructive Comments: For me the song lacked one particular hook/chorus to grab me.

Broadjam Artist: Matt Mereu
Song: Beacon Street

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: Loved the intro vocal harmonies. Remind me of some stuff produced by Trevor Horn who often uses very rich vocal harmonies in the music he produces (Inga’s Riding Into Blue is a good example).

Constructive Comments: For me the vocal needs to be more prevalent in the mix – I struggled at times to here the words.

Broadjam Artist: Massimo Carola
Song: Manname l’ammore

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: Reminds me an awful lot of Chambao’s Ya Estas Tu. Nothing wrong with that! Terrific vocal harmonies!

Constructive Comments: None to add I enjoyed it as it is.

Broadjam Artist: Randal Dunkle
Song: Kettle Black (Selsky/Dunkle)

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: Good arrangement with great variation which is always a complaint of mine – few understand that at times less is more!

Constructive Comments: At around 2 min 14 I wanted the tune to take off with a massive amount of drive and power to take it to yet another dimension but the dynamic stayed the same. I also thought the tune ended slightly early – was expecting a bit more.

Broadjam Artist: Kate Carpenter
Song: Flow Power Flow Instrumental

Reviewer: Matt Mereu

Positive Comments: This is a very nice little rootsy instrumental.Excellent performances all round. Catchy melody and rhythm. I especially like the harmonica.

Constructive Comments: The track seems a little overcompressed in places. I noticed it especially on the drum lead-in. As a result, I don’t think the track “breathes” as well as it might.

Broadjam Artist: a girl named jaen
Song: Obvious

Reviewer: Matt Mereu

Positive Comments: Outstanding vocal. Good instrumentation throughout. Nice big production with great clarity and separation, especially on the bottom end. Lots of dynamic variation. Really good hook. This song is a winner.

Constructive Comments: Perhaps it’s just personal taste, but I find some of the effects (swooping synth stabs, and even the scratched record) a bit distracting in places. I sense that these were added to variation and interest to the track. I feel there is already plenty going on. The listener’s focus is on the outstanding vocal. If anything I would consider filling out the chorus (eg. perhaps some more harmonies, or more power in the bottom end) even more so the dynamic contrast is even more marked. Very well done!

Broadjam Artist: Warren Hein
Song: Cookie Cutter Blonde instrumental

Reviewer: max quaini

Positive Comments: finally some damn powerful well recorded and played rock song, a punch in your face, straight and honest, love this way! great lead guitar playing, awesome standing out sound, also the bass line is freaking cool, great recording and sound, I LOVE IT!

Constructive Comments: it’s in between hard rock and punk, and finally someone who play an outro as well, there’s too many fade out around lol as mentioned before, great overall job, great sound, truly powerful and very well played, nothing particular new but that’s not the intention I guess but just some damn good heavy rock, and that’s more than done! awesome!!keep rocking, wish you the bestsincerelyMax

Broadjam Artist: Les Browning Music
Song: Incompatibility

Reviewer: max quaini

Positive Comments: not sure if it’s a live recording or not, because it would obviously change my thought about the recording. I am pretty sure (almost lol) it’s a live performance and recording, in this case it’s pretty cool and damn powerful, the lead guitar is insane, hands down to the guitar hero, vocals are on spot but even more very communicative, super powerful!

Constructive Comments: as mentioned before, lot of energy and power, I love it! the quality recording is sadly very poor but I assume it’s a live recording, should it be a studio thing it would definitely need a better job, to give the whole band some justice, anyway I really loved it! keep rocking guys, sincerelyMax