{"id":29704,"date":"2016-09-05T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=e7e1d448b2843c8f77b37ad533077afb"},"modified":"2016-09-05T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T18:07:00","slug":"a-dash-of-pollock-new-age-progressive-by-uncle-spider-the-electric-dirt-clods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/05\/a-dash-of-pollock-new-age-progressive-by-uncle-spider-the-electric-dirt-clods\/","title":{"rendered":"&amp; a dash of Pollock \/New Age Progressive by Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/2\/2068\/tmb_150x150_2068_236393.jpg\" title=\"Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods\" alt=\"Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/redwinemusic\">Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=561&#038;mediaID=1967\">&#038; a dash of Pollock \/New Age Progressive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=113411\">Josh Walker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>I like jazz tunes that use a violin &#8211; it gives the song a different flavor. It seems the composer is going for a very loose groove, and if so, the violin goes well with that.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>Well, for me, it&#8217;s hard to get my brain around what the feel is supposed to be and hard to rate. It sounds like a cross between Mahavishnu Orchestra and standard jazz. The drums don&#8217;t really give a consistent jazz feel, especially in the ride cymbal, which sometimes plays the &#8220;uh 1&#8221; and &#8220;uh 3&#8221; too fast to feel comfortable. I tended to rate it lower because I heard all electronic instruments and thought maybe this is a work in progress. To my ears it needs a more authentic jazz feel and some more structure of some kind. If it is supposed to be chaotic, live instruments would help the authenticity I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/2\/2068\/tmb_150x150_2068_236393.jpg\" title=\"Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods\" alt=\"Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/redwinemusic\">Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=561&amp;mediaID=1967\">&amp; a dash of Pollock \/New Age Progressive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=113411\">Josh Walker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>I like jazz tunes that use a violin &#8211; it gives the song a different flavor. It seems the composer is going for a very loose groove, and if so, the violin goes well with that.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>Well, for me, it&#8217;s hard to get my brain around what the feel is supposed to be and hard to rate. It sounds like a cross between Mahavishnu Orchestra and standard jazz. The drums don&#8217;t really give a consistent jazz feel, especially in the ride cymbal, which sometimes plays the &#8220;uh 1&#8221; and &#8220;uh 3&#8221; too fast to feel comfortable. I tended to rate it lower because I heard all electronic instruments and thought maybe this is a work in progress. To my ears it needs a more authentic jazz feel and some more structure of some kind. If it is supposed to be chaotic, live instruments would help the authenticity I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29705,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions\/29705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}