AM:PM Sings

[Tony Bray]

AM:PM. The coolest element to this track is your voice and the language. Its beautiful. For me personally unless a lyric is extremely poetic or clever it is uninteresting to me in English. I only have a few (hopefully constructive) critizisms.

1) Dynamically, the music bed could be more expressive for my tastes. Perhaps try different and less subtle changes in orchestration.
2) Speaking of orchestration. I feel that some instruments translate better than others when using PCM synthesizers. It might be a better choice to find a unique synth sound rather than using PCM samples of woodwinds for some of your melodic lines. (or find the real deal).
3) You also might want to explore breaking out of the 2 chord vamp thing. Even when keeping a melody simple (and tasteful) there are some simple diatonic devices to keep things interesting. And of course there are harmonic places that you can go without completely changing the vibe of the tune.

This is also true of your "chill out" stuff. And please. this is meant to be helpful and certainly just my opinion. Take it for what you will. Keep crankin' them out.

All Respect,

www.tonybraymusic.com

[Rune Vejby]

Nice suggestions, Tony. Regarding orchestration you should always keep in mind what kind of music we are dealing with! In my perspective, Chill-out music should not be produced with emphasis on a expressive orchestration - the point of the music is to make people "chill out" and expressive instrumentation is often demanding a very attentive listener So I think it is fine to keep focus on the vocals and leave the instrumentation more or less at its current state
I'm not saying it is OK that the musical aspect of cill-out music is boring - but keep it mind the objective and "rules" of the particular genre

[AM:PM]

Hi Tony, Thanks for listening to my tracks and taking the time to review it. I appreciate the things you point out.
I could have added a few more dynamics to the track in order heighten the tension. I will give it a thought in my next tracks.
About the wood/wind samples, thats a tough one. I know samples dont carry the same accentuation as the real deal and I dont have access to the real deal as you put it- so I guess its a question of settling for second best. Thats why I try to use such samples with a degree of modesty.
Kind regards

[AM:PM]

Hi Rune, There is some substance to what you point out but on the other hand I find a lot of credence in what Tony pointed out. It all breaks down to a balance
Kind regards
PM

[Rune Vejby]

No problem.... actually it is just a matter or categorizing the music then... Expressive orchestral music is not chill-out It's as simple as that...

By the way, which track are we talking about??? I've just experienced that this thread contains several tracks My comments are related to the first upload/first post... Just to make everything clear

[AM:PM]

I suppose its the first upload, but there is a little reference to the other track in the Chills Out thread :-)