Month: September 2020

Broadjam Artist: paul sandberg
Song: POWER OF LOVE

Reviewer: MGB

Positive Comments: Very unique and clever piece with a very pleasing riff. Instrumentation and arrangement sounds topnotch.

Constructive Comments: Cool tune.

Broadjam Artist: David Watson
Song: BILLIE’S SONG

Reviewer: MGB

Positive Comments: Very emotional and stirring piece with powerhouse vocals and instrumentation.

Constructive Comments: Really good tune. Only knock I have on it is the very end when the fade out is cut off abruptly.

Broadjam Artist: Felice Kaye-Cooper / Songwriter
Song: The Czar Is Dead

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: Written in a minor key, here is an instrumental duet with an electronic mandolin sound backed by a consistent keyboard bass part. The melody is memorable. It reminds me of klezmer music.

Constructive Comments: Beef it up with some more samples, different instrumentation. Build it a little? I wasn’t real fond of the tinny electronic sounding mandolin. Nothing wrong with the bass runs but their pedantic consistency was almost…too much. Does that make sense? Ending needs to be a bit more conclusive.

Broadjam Artist: DeDe WedeKind
Song: Maybe Someday Soon by Peter Schwepker & Larry Brenner

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: This is a very sweet song about a grown woman singing to her (just passed away) dad. It seems to be a song that would be appropriate for a funeral or a movie about your dad dying. Pleasant intro. Nice string bed. The vocalist executes the song beautifully with much emotion and tenderness. Nicely done. Lovely mix. Effective instrumentation, good production.

Constructive Comments: first line, vocals should be improved, stronger, more confident like the rest of the song. Is this an original or a cover?

Broadjam Artist: Michael Centola (20 Minute Mission)
Song: Trigger Warning

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: Great drums on the intro. Very tribal sounding. Gritty vocals. This is a highly original song about the triggers in modern society. It’s very real, very current, very true. You can’t help offending somebody no matter what you say…somebody’s not gonna like it. The songwriter hit on several instances that fit together well in this song…skillful lyric writing. The chorus is super catchy and effective. Sounds like you’re pulling the trigger every time you belt out the hook. This is great songwriting!

Constructive Comments: Seems to me that the vocals on the chorus were a bit off pitch. Perhaps that was intentional, but it hit my ear as a bit off.

Broadjam Artist: Jeana Potthoff
Song: After the Storm

Reviewer: Kate Carpenter

Positive Comments: Peaceful, sweet, poignant, masterful emotive piano playing. Beautiful composition. Fit for a movie or ? just great listening music. Nicely produced. Fantastic job.

Constructive Comments: Work on a more conclusive ending to this beautiful piece. It deserves a better resolution.

Broadjam Artist: Earl.C.Webb
Song: Going Through Changes

Reviewer: Sam Cooper

Positive Comments: Only two great artists I know of that sound like this to me. One of them is not on Broadjam (Michael McDonald), so, if I’m correct, this must be the work of the great Earl C. Webb from the U.K.! Beautiful songwriting, performance, vocals and production by a master who should be world famous and have walls of platinum and gold, in my opinion!

Constructive Comments: I love listening to your music, Earl, if this is you. You’ve nailed it again!

Broadjam Artist: Ronald Arduini
Song: WOE IS ME

Reviewer: Sam Cooper

Positive Comments: This might have been a good song for a band like Queen, being rather theatrical and dramatic. I very much enjoyed this and would love to hear a full band production.

Constructive Comments: As is, this is a very cool demo!

Broadjam Artist: Hartmut Oberdieck
Song: this is what I feel (2007)

Reviewer: Sam Cooper

Positive Comments: Nice showcase for some romantic sounding electric guitar! Well-done!

Constructive Comments: No criticism here…this is nice!

Broadjam Artist: Greg Lambert
Song: Looking Out

Reviewer: Sam Cooper

Positive Comments: Mellow song of desire to reignite love.

Constructive Comments: Lyrics here are sometimes generic. There’s a sterility that needs to be overcome in order to make this magical.