11-01-2010, 16:32
Title: Suite by Georg Friderich Handel http://www.onclassical.com/artists/stella/handel-i
Artist: Simone Stella
Genre: Classical
First of all, Simone Stella is a guy.
Natural from Italy, he got an extensive and impressive bio. Check out at http://www.onclassical.com/artists/stella/
I have some pros and cons about this artist:
The music:
Perfect! Excellent interpretation, greatly performed. Technical expression is absolutely flawless. Perfectly performed.
Also, if it is not enough, it got tons of feeling. You can really hear an expression of the soul here.
It is not music for everyone, no. I believe you have to have a lot of knowledge to understand those pieces, wich are great buy the way.
Worth the listening but...
Technology:
The mp3 sounds baaaaaad! ( baaaaad means very bad really)
The streaming is a mp3 at 96khz. Could work for hiphop or pop music, but for classical...hummmm...it doesn´t work.
The author kindly request this review and I am honoured to be contacted by such a talented musician. I feel obligated to be honest.
Why someone would request a review of bad sounding songs? I wonder...of course it will have an influence at the opinion of the listener.
Also there is this annoying voice at the end of each song: "This is an audio file by bla bla bla...". Doesn´t help either, I think I know where I am listening to the songs, I don´t need to be reminded. After 15 songs I just wanted to kill her.
Excellent interpretation by an excellent musician in horrible quality streaming at a terribly bad maintained web site.
Comon!!! 96K files? For classical music?
Give me a break!
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Title: Good Night http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8530444
Artist: Bright Midnight
Genre: Rock
When you know an artist you want to hear something familiar. You know what to expect.
This is the case for me here. I reviewed some songs of Bright Midnight and I am preety much familiar with his sonority/composing style.
Perhaps this song, when listened by a 100% fresh ear, could point to a different point of view. It could sound totaly unexpected and unusual to the first time listener and , perhaps, too weird.
I agree with myself, lol, but knowing the artist´s music for a while I think it is very easy listening.
It is different, yes, I can still hear the british vibe (the author is american), the long and dense reverbs, the vintage sounding instruments.
It is a modern vision of what was the psichodelic music of the 70´s, wich is coming back like a tractor nowadays.
I think this "remaking" feeling is great. Music nowadays is so poor.
Anyway, great music from a great and unique artist.
Difficult to hear at first but good.
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Title: Christmas TV Commercial http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8539642
Artist: Radoslav Zdravkovic
Genre: Classical
It is great to see so many classical music composers.
This piece is supposed to be in a christmas commercial. I believe it is just a demo from an artist trying to "get into the market".
For a TV commercial? Humm, it is fine I guess, having in mind that commercial´s music is preety bad.
The melody and arrangements here are nice but it sounds a bit fake to my ears. I believe it is need a lot of post processing work to make classical music with samples in order to sound convincing enough.
The percussion parts in this piece are just perfect, sounds really realistic. I can say the same about the celesta, very realistic.
I cannot say the same about the woodwinds. It is really hard to make it convincing.
Musical composition is very good but the sound needs some improvement.
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Title: The Offering (BMI) http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7273227
Artist: Tomas David Hood
Genre: Guitar instrumental easy listening
Interesting info at the artist´s page:
"» highest in charts: # 1 (194,847 songs currently listed in Rock)
» highest in sub-genre: # 1 (41,741 songs currently listed in Rock > Rock General)
» today's position: # 9 in Rock
» today's position in sub-genre: # 3 in Rock General..."
First of all it is not rock.
I wonder if the fact that the author is a paying member at SC have something to do with the charts.
Let´s face it, #1 among 194,000 songs is a bit forced.
I´ve heard lots of songs better that this one at the genre that dont even got the top ten. I could give here a lot of examples.
This song is not bad but is boring as hell. Makes me yawn.
Guitar performance is ok but needs serious corrections on so called "digitations". Also, the choice of scales are not working to my ears.
I like the chords the author used here but the absent of a bass makes it difficult to understand.
The synth strings sound is weak for my taste, it is not working for me either.
Overall sound is crisp and clear. Excellent work at the mixing desk.
I have to be honest as usual, it is well done but I did not liked it.
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Title: Stalker http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8550227
Artist: Black Chamber
Genre: Experimental hiphop beat
All experimental music is great to me. The simple act of an artist running this path is absolutelly great to me. I hope someday I can do the same.
At first you can say it is just noise and a beat. But it is not.
The author post something that can help the understanding: "This is the mellow version of another song of mine called 'prey'. This time from the perspective of the stalker"
Yes, I can hear it and imagining a predator "stalking" the prey with the coldness of an animal.
There is some interesting, how can I say, screaming distorted noises. Sometimes it sounds like a guitar but I bet it is not.
Captive ambiences in a dense atmosphere.
Frighten and cold.
Interesting work for the experimental genre.
Could work great with a creepy rap singer like Cristopher Lee.
I can imagine also about Jon Bushaway wroting something and Larry Ludwick delivering the voice.
Imagine that?
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Title: Against The World Alone http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8541408
Artist: Boulevard Prose
Genre: HipHop
Imagine that, there is no lyrics posted at the artist´s page. I don´t understand 100% with the weird accent. How can I ave an opinion if I don´t understand?
Thiis another hiphop song in a repetitive and boring base. Two chords all the time. Obviously music is not important here. Why not mute the instruments and leave just the drums?
The voice? Excellent performed, I like it a lot. It is a shame I can´t understand it. The voice sound is also excellent.
Unfortunately it is just someone rapping on top of anything. The music doesn´t matter here, could be anything.
It is not enough to me.
Could be better, a lot better.
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Title: Learn To Love Again http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8571180
Artist: Brett Howe
Genre: Acoustic
Another great one from Mr. Howe.
It is not particularly well engineered nop, it is preety much "from the bedroom" with hiss and noises, but it got life.
It is a simple love song. Simples chords, simple lyrics and the beauty of the vocal performance by Brett Howe.
The lyrics:
"...I'm just thinking about yesterday
And i still wish it could still be that way
If we could pick up all the broken pieces,
what would you say?
If we could learn to love again ..."
Simplicity is the most complex thing in music.
Here you have it in a magic way.
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Title: Things You Do http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8538957
Artist: SOUFTRAX ENTERTAINMENT
Genre: Hiphop RnB
Guess what, there is no lyrics posted at the artists page. I wonder why.
Thisa is a soft beat with melodic female vocals and some rap.
Not bad but it is poor.
Nothing amazing going on here, it is just another hiphop song.
The female vocals are ok, got some expression but she is not breeding right. Also there are some notes inthe harmonization simply out of key. This happens sometimes ate the solo voice too.
The rap voice is timid, great lack of confidence.
The base, as usual, seems to be not imporatnt at all. It is poor and weak.
Overall sound not bad but weak.
Could be better.
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Title: Sin of Envy http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8575754
Artist: Thomas J Marchant
Genre: Alternative
Sometimes I like Thomas J songs and sometimes I don´t.
In this case I don´t liked it.
Why?
Because it doesn´t got that experimental felling you can find in his songs.
Perhaps it is too clean? Lol.
The chords progression is too childish to me, too happy. The 3/4 valse rhythm is too.. hummm... unapropriate for the ocasion, in my opinion.
I would like something more agressive and not so normal.
Drums sound is weak.
It is not like the TJM songs I know.
Could be better.
Please Thomas, come back, I urge you.
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Title: project 13 http://www.ubetoo.com/mckroo/24899
Artist: Markus McKroo
Genre: ????
This is the simply the worst song I ever heard.
It is also the worst caption I ever heard.
It is also the worst playing skills I ever heard.
All in all, horrible work.
Please kill yourself Markus.
I´ve never hear such a bad thing like that.
Horrible is a compliment in this case.
Do not hear it! Severe brain damage is likely.
I hope to survive this absurd.
Artist: Simone Stella
Genre: Classical
First of all, Simone Stella is a guy.
Natural from Italy, he got an extensive and impressive bio. Check out at http://www.onclassical.com/artists/stella/
I have some pros and cons about this artist:
The music:
Perfect! Excellent interpretation, greatly performed. Technical expression is absolutely flawless. Perfectly performed.
Also, if it is not enough, it got tons of feeling. You can really hear an expression of the soul here.
It is not music for everyone, no. I believe you have to have a lot of knowledge to understand those pieces, wich are great buy the way.
Worth the listening but...
Technology:
The mp3 sounds baaaaaad! ( baaaaad means very bad really)
The streaming is a mp3 at 96khz. Could work for hiphop or pop music, but for classical...hummmm...it doesn´t work.
The author kindly request this review and I am honoured to be contacted by such a talented musician. I feel obligated to be honest.
Why someone would request a review of bad sounding songs? I wonder...of course it will have an influence at the opinion of the listener.
Also there is this annoying voice at the end of each song: "This is an audio file by bla bla bla...". Doesn´t help either, I think I know where I am listening to the songs, I don´t need to be reminded. After 15 songs I just wanted to kill her.
Excellent interpretation by an excellent musician in horrible quality streaming at a terribly bad maintained web site.
Comon!!! 96K files? For classical music?
Give me a break!
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Title: Good Night http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8530444
Artist: Bright Midnight
Genre: Rock
When you know an artist you want to hear something familiar. You know what to expect.
This is the case for me here. I reviewed some songs of Bright Midnight and I am preety much familiar with his sonority/composing style.
Perhaps this song, when listened by a 100% fresh ear, could point to a different point of view. It could sound totaly unexpected and unusual to the first time listener and , perhaps, too weird.
I agree with myself, lol, but knowing the artist´s music for a while I think it is very easy listening.
It is different, yes, I can still hear the british vibe (the author is american), the long and dense reverbs, the vintage sounding instruments.
It is a modern vision of what was the psichodelic music of the 70´s, wich is coming back like a tractor nowadays.
I think this "remaking" feeling is great. Music nowadays is so poor.
Anyway, great music from a great and unique artist.
Difficult to hear at first but good.
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Title: Christmas TV Commercial http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8539642
Artist: Radoslav Zdravkovic
Genre: Classical
It is great to see so many classical music composers.
This piece is supposed to be in a christmas commercial. I believe it is just a demo from an artist trying to "get into the market".
For a TV commercial? Humm, it is fine I guess, having in mind that commercial´s music is preety bad.
The melody and arrangements here are nice but it sounds a bit fake to my ears. I believe it is need a lot of post processing work to make classical music with samples in order to sound convincing enough.
The percussion parts in this piece are just perfect, sounds really realistic. I can say the same about the celesta, very realistic.
I cannot say the same about the woodwinds. It is really hard to make it convincing.
Musical composition is very good but the sound needs some improvement.
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Title: The Offering (BMI) http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7273227
Artist: Tomas David Hood
Genre: Guitar instrumental easy listening
Interesting info at the artist´s page:
"» highest in charts: # 1 (194,847 songs currently listed in Rock)
» highest in sub-genre: # 1 (41,741 songs currently listed in Rock > Rock General)
» today's position: # 9 in Rock
» today's position in sub-genre: # 3 in Rock General..."
First of all it is not rock.
I wonder if the fact that the author is a paying member at SC have something to do with the charts.
Let´s face it, #1 among 194,000 songs is a bit forced.
I´ve heard lots of songs better that this one at the genre that dont even got the top ten. I could give here a lot of examples.
This song is not bad but is boring as hell. Makes me yawn.
Guitar performance is ok but needs serious corrections on so called "digitations". Also, the choice of scales are not working to my ears.
I like the chords the author used here but the absent of a bass makes it difficult to understand.
The synth strings sound is weak for my taste, it is not working for me either.
Overall sound is crisp and clear. Excellent work at the mixing desk.
I have to be honest as usual, it is well done but I did not liked it.
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Title: Stalker http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8550227
Artist: Black Chamber
Genre: Experimental hiphop beat
All experimental music is great to me. The simple act of an artist running this path is absolutelly great to me. I hope someday I can do the same.
At first you can say it is just noise and a beat. But it is not.
The author post something that can help the understanding: "This is the mellow version of another song of mine called 'prey'. This time from the perspective of the stalker"
Yes, I can hear it and imagining a predator "stalking" the prey with the coldness of an animal.
There is some interesting, how can I say, screaming distorted noises. Sometimes it sounds like a guitar but I bet it is not.
Captive ambiences in a dense atmosphere.
Frighten and cold.
Interesting work for the experimental genre.
Could work great with a creepy rap singer like Cristopher Lee.
I can imagine also about Jon Bushaway wroting something and Larry Ludwick delivering the voice.
Imagine that?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Against The World Alone http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8541408
Artist: Boulevard Prose
Genre: HipHop
Imagine that, there is no lyrics posted at the artist´s page. I don´t understand 100% with the weird accent. How can I ave an opinion if I don´t understand?
Thiis another hiphop song in a repetitive and boring base. Two chords all the time. Obviously music is not important here. Why not mute the instruments and leave just the drums?
The voice? Excellent performed, I like it a lot. It is a shame I can´t understand it. The voice sound is also excellent.
Unfortunately it is just someone rapping on top of anything. The music doesn´t matter here, could be anything.
It is not enough to me.
Could be better, a lot better.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Learn To Love Again http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8571180
Artist: Brett Howe
Genre: Acoustic
Another great one from Mr. Howe.
It is not particularly well engineered nop, it is preety much "from the bedroom" with hiss and noises, but it got life.
It is a simple love song. Simples chords, simple lyrics and the beauty of the vocal performance by Brett Howe.
The lyrics:
"...I'm just thinking about yesterday
And i still wish it could still be that way
If we could pick up all the broken pieces,
what would you say?
If we could learn to love again ..."
Simplicity is the most complex thing in music.
Here you have it in a magic way.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Things You Do http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8538957
Artist: SOUFTRAX ENTERTAINMENT
Genre: Hiphop RnB
Guess what, there is no lyrics posted at the artists page. I wonder why.
Thisa is a soft beat with melodic female vocals and some rap.
Not bad but it is poor.
Nothing amazing going on here, it is just another hiphop song.
The female vocals are ok, got some expression but she is not breeding right. Also there are some notes inthe harmonization simply out of key. This happens sometimes ate the solo voice too.
The rap voice is timid, great lack of confidence.
The base, as usual, seems to be not imporatnt at all. It is poor and weak.
Overall sound not bad but weak.
Could be better.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Sin of Envy http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8575754
Artist: Thomas J Marchant
Genre: Alternative
Sometimes I like Thomas J songs and sometimes I don´t.
In this case I don´t liked it.
Why?
Because it doesn´t got that experimental felling you can find in his songs.
Perhaps it is too clean? Lol.
The chords progression is too childish to me, too happy. The 3/4 valse rhythm is too.. hummm... unapropriate for the ocasion, in my opinion.
I would like something more agressive and not so normal.
Drums sound is weak.
It is not like the TJM songs I know.
Could be better.
Please Thomas, come back, I urge you.
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Title: project 13 http://www.ubetoo.com/mckroo/24899
Artist: Markus McKroo
Genre: ????
This is the simply the worst song I ever heard.
It is also the worst caption I ever heard.
It is also the worst playing skills I ever heard.
All in all, horrible work.
Please kill yourself Markus.
I´ve never hear such a bad thing like that.
Horrible is a compliment in this case.
Do not hear it! Severe brain damage is likely.
I hope to survive this absurd.