Wednesday 19 June 2013

FEEDBACK AS REQUESTED: REVERBNATION COLLATERAL JAZZ - STEVE MOHACEY

FEEDBACK AS REQUESTED: REVERBNATION COLLATERAL JAZZ  - STEVE MOHACEY

Improvisation.....Jazz bitch


ARTIST:STEVE MOHACEY
TRACKS:/ /RETURN TO DARKNESS, BAGHDAD BLUES
PLATFORM: REVERBNATION
FANS: 127,000
VID PLAYS: 1,600
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED: 17,000
LABEL: INDEPENDENT
LOCATION: SAN ANTONIO, TX. USA
MARKETING: NAPSTER, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, MYSPACE
ARTICLES: ON SOUNDALOUD
ARTWORK:
[original artwork on Reverbnation]



PART OF - THE 5 REVERBNATION DEMOS TO LISTEN TO SERIES
FEEDBACK TO STEVE MOHACEY:19/06/13

Soz for taking some time to get back but I have been around central Europe, got ill on my way back. 

Firstly I would like to ask, how are you finding Napster as your music distribution tool? 

The tracks I have listen to give feedback on are:

Return to Darkness: Because the title attracted me, and I mentioned something of it on Back from Iraq.

The Last Days:  It is the last track on your extended playlist, and again the religious undertones in the title got me.

Finally Back to Baghdad: Again because I used it in the aforementioned link, title is nice, and there is something of the playfulness of Tom King of Soundclick in this track.


I will be giving overall feedback on these three, mentioning each along the way. 

 

Most of the tracks I listened to on your playlist are instrumentals.  This brings the focus to the rhythm, melody, placements, and choice of your solos here and there.  There also seems to be something of an apocalyptic undertone to the titles of your tracks: Last Days, Return... etc I am a fan of that actually.

Well done on getting as many as almost 2000 video plays, and getting yourself out there on live shows.
Remember Jake and the Fatman?  Lethal Weapon I and cop dramas from the 80s?  
 I don’t know why but for some reason or other your melodies remind me of some of the theme tunes or interludes and chase scenes for dramatic effect.  Have you heard of this guy?  Tom King, from  Soundclick?  In his bio interview he mentions that he creates soundscapes for wild exotic jazz.  There seems to be an element of exoticism to your tunes though.  A heat to it.  That’s why I also sometimes get memories of some of the desert scenes in the movie Jarhead (2005).  I can imagine a fight scene. 


some of us never made it out of the 80s


back to baghdad again?

I am listening to most of your playlist through my Maxwell headphones, and the compression of double (bass?), to sax, and whisky cymbals, and snares sounds even enough.  There doesn’t seem to be much of that solo sounding odd, and screeching the ears somewhat that I listen to on many, many artists who are trying to put live instruments alongside electronic ones.  But then I think this is where you differ from Tom King, as his Jazz is meshed, and merged with electronica to astonishing effect.  

I haven’t seen your instrumental kit list, nor know of the virtual editing plug ins you use so can’t comment with certainty but it your music plays out as live instruments only.  Live sounds, recorded live, improvised, somewhat like a jam.

OTHER DEMOS TO LISTEN TO:

BLUES ROCK - BADGERSTATIC
POP - JOHNNY REI

Rae Burnz 





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