Re: [LAU] New Music

Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> onsdag mars 10 2010 12.44.58 skrev Gerald Mwangi:
>> Hi Guys,
>> At last I've managed to put my music online.
>> Check out http://www.jamendo.com/de/album/62900.
>> 'Let it go' is my first Linux only production, and now I have fully
>> converted to Linux. Jack-Apps just rock!
>> Please send me your impressions.
>
> Congrats Gerald, really, really excellent melodies! It's not often I hear so
> many great songs in one place this days, and that woman's voice is just great!
>
> But excellent melodies like this deserves much more. Your music belongs to the
> absolute top division and have to be measured from that point of view - let me
> mention some things that leaves room for improvements first and end with the
> praises:
>
> When we talks about the sound and feeling, the whole thing sounds just like a
> sound font demo (with some guitar work processed thru plugins). That don't
> have to be a bad thing, but your melodies - which are much more demanding than
> they sounds like - needs to be played live by groovy people with good skills
> on their instruments. It is very easy to hear what you want, but your uploads
> sounds just like some boxed half finished versions of your ideas. And the
> disted guitars sounds really bad.
>
> You are confusing me :-) , the arrangements goes from very under arranged and
> demoished to excellent arranged in parts. Some songs have some beginner
> skilled guitar playing (and is also is out of tune in some places) and can
> also contain excellent playing and sounds (like your wah-wah work which is
> really good). I will say that the same songs very clearly contains both
> amateur work as well as professional work. And in one hand, it sounds like a
> sound font party and on the other hand the instruments separates excellent in
> the mix. To me, you sounds sometime like a beginner and sometimes like a pro.
> Very confusing.
>
> It's very clear that you are an unusual talent when it comes to composing and
> making good melodies - you have without doubt a great potential of making a
> living of it! And the songs do have great arrangement and composing details
> here and there that makes me listen to this over and over.
>
> Please, do this stuff over again, make some more songs, get some decent
> samples (drums and brass), buy a POD for the guitars on ebay.

Maybe see if other folk on the list with skills in other instruments
might be willing to contribute tracks?

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David
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