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Looking right at the cover you would have no
idea what’s inside. Hit play, and you are immediately surprised
by the quality of arrangement and production. Michael’s voice
sounds well trained and very mature for his seemingly young
age. However, what you then realize as he starts singing
is the vocal style and arrangements are definitely not complimentary
to each other. Individually they are very strong, but this
is like mixing beer with cereal. Just doesn’t work. Now,
take a listen to the second track. Remember the sound effect
that Cher brought into the market a couple years ago? Yeah,
the one where she uses a digital pitch correction device
to act almost like a vocoder? Okay, well Michael abuses the
tool on the second track.
Now, if Michael had more soul, more edge, and more originality
in his vocals and tried to match the arrangements it would
be a great album. OR…it could be looked at from the other
direction. If the producer/arranger took Michael’s voice
into consideration a little more seriously and maybe incorporated
more classical styles, strings, acoustical instruments, it
would work. By the time you get the fourth track, if you
make it, you realize a very good attempt at a remix was done
of the first track, “Walls Tumbling.” This album was a great
project and a lot of fun, I am sure. I can sense the amount
of work that went behind it. For that I will shake your hand.
But, please try again…
Favorite
Track:
4, “Walls Tumbling (dance remix)”
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Erik
Beyer is a trained musician, performer, songwriter, arranger,
and self-taught businessman. After spending five years
in the Army Band he moved back to Portland, OR and began
designing sound systems and marketing pro audio gear.
He later was hired to book for a local Portland venue,
putting bands on stage seven nights a week where he reviewed
all CDs submitted. In 1998 he formed Beyer Sound Productions
with a goal to serve musicians.
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