Month: March 2019

Broadjam Artist: Kate Carpenter
Song: I’ll Take a Step

Reviewer: StarburstRecords

Positive Comments: Great energy, nice vibrant overall feel. Great for kids. Very nice job. Excellent lyrics, production, vocal performance,recording and mixing.

Constructive Comments: Great job! Nothing to add.

Broadjam Artist: Lonnie G
Song: Water Rising

Reviewer: StarburstRecords

Positive Comments: Awesome energy! Love the total forward momentum and commitment. Great gravely vocals. Use of water, never learned to swim, water rising, the boat reference, etc., are all very effective analogies to living one’s life. Well done.

Constructive Comments: its all good. i have nothing negative or constructive to say.

Broadjam Artist: Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods
Song: Sweeter Than An Alibi / R&B

Reviewer: John Hazlett

Positive Comments: This song has a similar feel as the song, “I Only Have Eyes For You”. But this song is a bit more bittersweet, in which the singer seems not sure how the relationship is going. The singer seems to be reminiscing the better and happy days.

Constructive Comments: Maybe a hair too slow.

Broadjam Artist: Toni Fournier
Song: Love To Be In Love

Reviewer: John Hazlett

Positive Comments: A nice pop song about a person stating one’s love for another. It has a good slow (But not too slow) rhythm to it. It also expresses the depth of the feeling pretty well.

Constructive Comments: The vocals could use a bit more oomph.

Broadjam Artist: amy abernathy
Song: Matchless Beauty

Reviewer: John Hazlett

Positive Comments: A very nice song that could be used in a church setting with special/meditative music.

Constructive Comments: This isn’t classical music. It’s more like Unique-Religious, or Gospel. This needs a little work in the recording and singing. The singer has a decent voice, but needs to work on adding a little more oomph and projection.

Broadjam Artist: Greg Lambert
Song: Boomerang

Reviewer: John Hazlett

Positive Comments: This has very nice background vocals. The lead singer has a decent baritone voice.

Constructive Comments: This isn’t Classical music. It’s more like country-pop or folk. The lead singer could try to add a little more oomph and project his voice a little better.

Broadjam Artist: Brenda Craven
Song: Sunrays

Reviewer: John Hazlett

Positive Comments: A nice easy piece that is very versatile for a wide variety of uses. The strings in the background fill in the gaps very nicely.

Constructive Comments: Might could use a little more saturation.

Broadjam Artist: Signal 30
Song: Vierne’s Return: A Discordant Symphony

Reviewer: John Hazlett

Positive Comments: Sort of a thriller version of the, “Happy Organ”.

Constructive Comments: A bit too repetitious.

Broadjam Artist: Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods
Song: Once Upon A Time / Pop Ballad

Reviewer: Joy A Simons Brown

Positive Comments: I like the lyrics and the arrangement. I also like the entry and exit of the harmony.I hear good songwriting skills and good choice of melody pattern. This song reminds me of something by the Beatles with John Lennon. The lyrics are well delivered by the main vocalist and the song keep my interest right till the end.

Constructive Comments: Good song. However I kept hearing some ‘sustains’ in parts in the song. For instance the piano pedal in the introduction being held too long produces a slight discord. Attention to this would provide cleaner harmonies especially at the end of a line. Cut off the chord before picking up the next phrase. Nice work !!

Broadjam Artist: Marc S. Pate
Song: For a Friend

Reviewer: Joy A Simons Brown

Positive Comments: This instrumental has some interesting points where there is subtle entry and exit of other instruments. Because of the style of it, I see it doing well in a movie on a drive out of town. Clips of it could be used at different points in the movie. It is true to the easy listening genre and reminds me of Cindi Lauper’s Time after Time.

Constructive Comments: If there were to be any improvements, I would suggest a bridge that goes away from the loop for a while since the song is 3 minutes. It would give it even more variety and make it more eligible for placement. Good work !