{"id":55340,"date":"2018-10-24T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=aebfe95d3a15249d74e381b8bed34e95"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:43:00","slug":"melancholy-by-douglas-amell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/24\/melancholy-by-douglas-amell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Melancholy by Douglas Amell"},"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\/160\/160199\/tmb_150x150_160199_275923.jpg\" title=\"Douglas Amell\" alt=\"Douglas Amell\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/dougamell\">Douglas Amell<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=105337&#038;mediaID=683619\">Melancholy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=12498\">Edmond Allmond<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>I enjoyed this piece. I feel it as backdrop to a walk outdoors in brisk evening air, possibly with snow around&#8230; that is what this evokes for me.The beginning is very well thought out. I love the piano beginning.I like that the &#8216;cello was featured as the melodic lead. The trading of parts of the motif between the &#8216;cello and the higher stinged instrument (violin, viola?) is quite lovely. Very well written.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The mix could use a bit more brightness. Needs some mastering dips. It&#8217;s a tough proposition with a rich palette such as is presented in this song, when you try to put it all together for the small speakers we tend to listen with today. (I&#8217;m using AudioTechnica headphones through my computer)The cello could use a bigger pocket in which to sit in the mix&#8230;The piano performance could be more nuanced, and it would add TREMENDOUSLY to this piece. The &#8216;cello has that nuanced performance&#8230;This piece seems a nice potential background for a beautiful video shot in the snow, in a forest somewhere&#8230; I would love to see that.  Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadjam Artist: Douglas AmellSong: MelancholyReviewer: Edmond AllmondPositive Comments: I enjoyed this piece. I feel it as backdrop to a walk outdoors in brisk evening air, possibly with snow around&#8230; that is what this evokes for me.The beginning is &#8230;<\/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-55340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55340","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=55340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55341,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55340\/revisions\/55341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}