S100106AM

S100106AM

ALT COUNTRY/AMERICANA SONGS in the range from Gram Parsons to Uncle Tupelo to the Jayhawks to Lucinda Williams to Wilco to the Drive-By Truckers, etc., are wanted by a West Coast-based Music Library whose clients include Xbox, Microsoft, Visa, Clorox, Adidas, and more. Male or female vocals are fine. Vocal and instrumental presentation must be top-notch! They offer a standard non-exclusive, 50/50 deal and they don't acquire your song's copyright. Songs must be broadcast quality (great sounding home recordings are OK). You must control the publishing and master rights to your songs - no samples that require clearance, please. Please submit one to three songs online or per CD, include lyrics. All submissions will be screened and critiqued by TAXI and must be received no later than Wednesday, January 6, 2010. TAXI #S100106AM

Name Michael Epstein Listing # S100106AM


Title: Walk on Water
N/A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (10=best)
8 Melody
8 Lyrics
8 Marketability
8 Song Structure
6 Production
7 Engineering
7 Musicianship
8 Lead Vocal
You have a fun melody here and a catchy chorus. Your voice has a quirkiness to it that will make you stand out from the crowd and be remembered. I'd like to hear more of a dynamic shift between your verses and choruses. Sonically, you have most of the action going on in the same frequency range - voice, guitars etc. and they all seem to be turned up at the same level. It becomes a bit tiring to the ears after a while - a bit of an assault.

Status: Return

Style
On target for this listing

Overall Comments
Hello Michael, thank you for submitting your material for this listing. I have enjoyed listening to your song - catchy chorus, fun feel to it, reminiscent of The Violent Femmes. Now I need to hear a slightly better recording for a listing such as this. You're off to a great start hear. Now I'd like to hear you think about separation of instruments, frequency-wise, with panning, with varying volumes. make sure the voice stands out from the instruments more - investigate using space, rather than filling it all up. Try using more space in your verses and then building in your chorus.

Sound Quality
Not great, but clean enough for this listing

The sound is 'clean' enough but I hear a lack of frequency range and you could make more choices in your mixing - dynamic, panning - and previous to that - arranging.

The main reason(s) you were not forwarded for this listing is:
I really like the song. Now I just need to hear a little more dynamic and use of space in the recording.

Listener ID # 147