CitizenMofo

Ain't it so true - what you said? Love this one. Love the trancey repetition of the beat and the spoken vocals, and then the singing comes in right at the right time. Great work.

Like some other commenters I LOVE this song, but only half of it. The sung vocals are EXTRAORDINARY, beautiful, magical - I'm walking through fire to buy that song and that album. But the rap is ordinary (to my ears; forgive me), a cliched move, heard it many times and it brings the piece too far down from the heights of the mountain where you had carried me. I want to stay on top of the mountain for the whole piece, breathing the clouds. Your talent is a powerhouse and my respect requires that I be honest with you: I'd reconsider the rap bits. Thanks.

I needed me some blues and this hit the spot real real deep. Just one question: Where can I buy the album?

A lot of atmosphere in this piece. I like the vocal texture a lot, though wonder if it's perhaps a tad too deep in the music and under the beat, because that makes the beat the focus rather than the vocals; not sure; you've probably played with it endlessly, as I would, and landed here as the best mix so I'll shut up about that. But then there's no vocals in a good part of the track, and I couldn't really understand the words, so yeah, I'm still leaning toward a little more spotlight on the vocals so the music is a setting for them rather than the vocals just being another element in the music. So I ramble. Can't help myself, I'm still pondering the mix, but good stuff and I enjoyed it.

Wicked good. Really took off for me after the 1st minute, roared to life powering up an intricate bass groove that would be catnip for animation-style dancers. You orchestrate the intricacies superbly and that groove is high-octane diesel. Cool little swipe of an ending sound, too. You got no problem with the dance sounds, my friend, this is infectious stuff.

I like this piece a lot. Got my head bopping bigtime, which sucked because my neck's already quite sore from working on my own head-bopping piece yesterday (believe it or not). So now you've managed to hurt my neck further while putting a smile on my face.

Carole, thank you so much for providing a translation of the lyrics, and for all your replies to my comments yesterday. I guess there are different people using janis71, so sorry about my confusion there. There's Carole, I guess, and there's Janis, and then there's the people you work with, like Stef, etc. It's great that you have a community of artists to work with there. I used to have a band and do a lot of studio work but now it's all solo mash-up work with me locked in my little room like a mad scientist hermit. However your music happens, whoever's involved in the various pieces, count me in as a fan of y'all. And I'll be back when I have more time to listen to more of your tasty tracks...

You had me from the first second on this one, with that slappy percussion and stumbling piano. Love the vocal repetition as backing. As with many of your pieces, there's that dark edge, that sense of sadness, that shadow of emotion. I like the slow stately march of the piece. It's a heavy head-bopper - deep, hard, shoulder-cringing bops. Nice use of organ - I like how you tend to go for the unusual sounds. Great stuff.

I don't speak French but you're emotions come through quite clearly nonetheless with the passion of your expression. I especially love the ending, with the layers of harmony and the striking piano(?) notes at the very end - a new sound out of nowhere - love that.

a) I wish I spoke French. b) You've got a dark edge in some of your pieces - this is the third I've listened to now and the second where that shadow fell early on. Oh man! I'm at the breakdown now, the bridge I guess, where the piano and bass do a little dance - LOVE THAT STUFF! And then your airy arias - beautiful. OK, here's that shadow again - I wish I knew what you were saying! Now I'm at the second break - mixed in with that orchestral chorus - oh, that's the end. c) Fantastic piece - I'd say this is getting right up there with "No Ace". d) I really really wish I could download your songs. I'm flying to Europe in a couple weeks and this is what I'd be listening to if I could. So you should reconsider your policy and let the music-starved hordes have their nourishment. e) You rock. I mean, seriously.

Hi there, from your reply to someone's comment, this is an early piece of yours. I dug it, but not quite to the level of "No Ace", which is freakin awesome and clearly several miles down the road past your early productions. It's great to see that progression. Now I have no choice but to listen to all of your pieces - you've been busy! - and chart that progression and follow your evolution like a true fan. Because you are one talented lady, writing-wise, singing-wise, and music sensibility-wise. And so I embark on my journey of musical discovery, following in your wake, with happy anticipation...

OK, I'm like 30 seconds in and hooked. Love it when that hard edge creeps in with the eerie guitar and the shadow enters your voice, sort of an am-radio tuning. Giving you a play-by-play here as I listen... The mix is deep, you can try to push your ear all the way into the core but you can't, it just keeps going. How do you do that? Teach me! Somehow the mix is more in the middle of my head than other mixes. How do you do that? Tell me now! The bass is friggin' awesome - what a foundation! And how many layers of sound did you build on top of that foundation? I can't count 'em! I'm at the guitar and drum break near the end now - perfect! OK, here comes the fade...yeah, you know how to fade, too, not a half-assed sort-of fade (like I just heard on another track) or a confusing no-ending ending, you properly fade that joint. This is music at a high level and right in the wheelhouse of my oddball sensibility. The only problem with it - and it's a huge one - is that you don't permit downloads. Meanie.

Nice track, sweet sounds. I don't care for how it ends though - just kind of stops, and the wave sounds don't really cover that up. Dig the piece but to my random ear think it needs more of a resolution.

Age doesn't matter, only talent does (or skill, really, which is talent honed by practice). Look at Mozart starting his career at 5. And you, my friend, have both talent and skill. Your skill in production will continue to grow naturally as you do more stuff, but it's already at a high level. But your talent exceeds many of the much older members of this community, probably mine included. It's a sophisticated understanding of structure that you have (and that you have in common with Mozart). You know how to take a theme and develop it with an interplay of repetition and variation (that's really all music is, repetition and variation). Your bass theme is hook-y and attention-grabbing and gives the piece a great and solid structure, as you return to it 3 times after passages of melodic variation. Some cool synth work 2/3rds in. I never got bored listening to this - twice! - whereas with a lot of other tracks I do get bored because there's too little variation, build, structure. I'll look forward to hearing more from you.

A sweet dreamy groove. More of a head-bopper for me than a dance track, but I prefer animation-style dancing - which needs more variation and nuances in the beat. And the piece just sort of ends, not really a full fade-out or climax-driven hard stop of some sort. I wanted a bit more of a conclusion. I enjoyed it and listened to the end! But with a couple notes, for what they're worth, because we all have our personal taste and individual preferences.

I love this - I guess you could call it R&B (the genres just seem increasingly meaningless to me though) but the sounds are unusual and the vocal so wobbly and dreamy, it seems to escape all the cliches of R&B and forge its own path. Yeah it needs verses - and more variation, which the verses should take care of - so I'll be interested to see what you come up with to complete the track. Great start. I hate cliches and I love music that surprises me, as this piece does.

Yeah this is a sweet piece of work all around, gettin the love it deserves from the community. I could imagine heading north on the 5 through California farmland flippin through the radio, landing on this like unexpected magic on some Bakersfield station and cranking that mother up passing semis at 85 head-dancing in my car like a maniac. Love it.

There's a lot of goodness going on in this piece. I like how it moves, keeps evolving, doesn't get stuck and doesn't get boring. I like the early break and the use of silence (I like doing that, too). And then I like how the new section is very different from the first, yet somehow consistent with it. I love the voice. But I do think - since you described this as epic - that it could have been more epic with perhaps a bigger build, a layering of vocals, maybe rising in pitch, toward a climax. The comment right above this one I'm writing mentions that the resolution could be stronger and I agree. As I said, there's a lot of goodness in this, but I want to be knocked off my feet a little harder by the end.

Got a great swing to it. Crystal clear mix - if I open my eyes the singer's gonna be right in front of me, I just know it - except I'd rather just keep them closed in my bopping head...

Man, I love this. So much unusualness going on - in sounds, in the beat, in your musical choices. Keeps it fresh and surprising, never boring, always sparkling. You are a talent.

I dig this. Tremendous evolution in the groove, unlike most of the pieces I just listened to... You keep it moving and that keeps me moving.

Tight. Great groove. I was wanting a little more evolution in it but then the break came at 3:17ish and that bit of variation was the fresh breeze I needed to carry me through. Right on.

I like this a lot. For me, the volume on the vocals is fine - they cut through, and I like that they're a little under the music but I can still hear every word just fine.