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Somerville ( MA ) - Estados Unidos
Administrador de los artistas : R. Winchester Greater Boston Visionary Outpost ARTSomerville Songs of Hope for Haiti
Sitio web : http://web.mit.edu/randy/www/
Miembro desde : 11 de agosto de 2006
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In a perfect world, more students of the fine arts will record their recitals and publish the best ones on line! Nicolás Muma Farruggia certainly has a brilliant career ahead of him! Bravo!
This isn't my favorite music genre, but I find myself drawn to this album. This is really good, creative and different! This is a real stand out!
This has been going on for awhile. I don't trust any of the statistics.
One artist I represent, ARTSomerville, for January - October 2009, the lowest number of listens was 6238 for February. The number of listens increases in 9 out of 10 months with October being the highest month with 8971 listens. The number for November is 1949! The number for this month, which is more than 3/4 complete is 279! This is so far from the norm that it is not to be believed.
I can provide many more examples of this type. For six months in 2008, ARTSomerville was averaging 12,000 page views a month. Last month, 1224. This month, 163.
I don't suspect that this is an example of the artist no longer being popular. ARTSomerville has 69 albums on Jamendo in all styles and genres, and the classical music albums have been the most popular choices.
Presently, the public statistics from the artist page or any of the album pages is either broken or disabled. You can see this for yourself. All the numbers are "0." I have reported this and written about it multiple times in the forums, but there has been no comment.
Jamendo! Fix your ratings, rankings and statistics! Tell us how they work! Please give us the transparency that we should expect from a business that earns its money from Creative Commons content.
This is good playing and a good recording, but the songs:
"Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono)
"Sandu" (Clifford Brown) and
"Dexterity" (Charlie Parker)
are all under copyright and should not be available on Jamendo. The composers are not even given credit due.
This is an enjoyable and well produced track. I like it. Why am I rating it 6 instead of higher? I'm taking exception to the trend of publishing each new song an artist finishes as an album. I've seen a lot of this lately and I think it's just an attempt to get a bigger share of page hits on Jamendo. In the rating pulldown box, 7 is for "Good album." This is a good song, but at just a little over four minutes, it is not an album.
This is a very well produced techno album, and if I had my choice of only one techno album from Jamendo, I might possibly choose this one from the other 20,000. Why is there so much techno music on Jamendo? Are there really enough fans to support this huge volume of techno music? Or is it because the music tools in use now make it so easy to produce the endless loops of samples and beat patterns that there's little entrance barrier to make a techno album?
This album is very well done, and if I had heard it 5 - 10 years ago, I might have liked it better, but it feels like I've already heard it before while I'm listening the first time.
Thank you to JORGESTRADA for this beautiful album that will now be part of my regular listening. If you have not done so, please click on the link for the album art and wallpapers. The graphic design is excellent. It should win an award
Is that really Jon Anderson from Yes? I couldn't tell.
This is probably a pretty good Yes tribute band. It sounds like Yes and most of the vocal harmonies and instrumental parts are reminiscent of early 1970s Yes. All the way down to the Rick Wakeman organ riffs and Steve Howe guitar licks. If you are into Yes, you'll most likely enjoy this.
This is a well polished gem by Mudit Sood. I especially like track 4, Lengthy Essay. There are some new sounds on that track that I have never heard anyone else do. I would encourage Mudit to take even more risks on his next album.
Hey, this could have been a lot worse (better). That said, it really does appeal to my sense of "badness." Some of it is really cool bad, like Gilles Snowcat, sounds like noise I might make at home while drunk and bored on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Other tracks are calculatingly bad. Only a true master like Coke Al-Jose can crank out a horrible car wreck of a tune like Seaside Casino Romance. Then there's bad in the classic sense with Giant Squid March on Washington and The Chadderandom Abyss. Gotta had it to Mudit, too, just for trying. Crazy Musician is trying my nerves right now!
And while I'm on a roll, please bear with me while I plug some of the truly awful artists that have produced some of the biggest musical turds to date: The Exploding Plastic Inedible show by Astro Al live at Goatstock 3: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/8458 .
If that doesn't make you retch, try GBVO by the Greater Boston Visionary Outpost: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/4076 . Very strange that some people liked this album, but the one French reviewer got it right! GBVO sucks! If you're just looking for a totally f'ed up sound to completely ruin your evening, you can always try: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/24844 . To be honest, I don't think that Hello Shark is all that bad, but they do sound almost exactly like this in a live performance. The reviewers were slamming the quality of the recording, but hey, they weren't at the show, so what would they know?
Your's in awfulness,
Randy
¡regístrate!
