Wednesday 19 June 2013

FEEDBACK AS REQUESTED: REVERBNATION THROWBACK POP - JOHNNY REI

FEEDBACK AS REQUESTED: REVERBNATION THROWBACK POP - JOHNNY REI





ARTIST: JOHNNY REI
TRACKS:/ /NUMBER 1 SINGLE
PLATFORM: REVERBNATION
FANS: N/A
VID PLAYS: 5000 (315 subscribers)
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED:N/A
LABEL: INDEPENDENT
LOCATION: LONDON, U.K
MARKETING: BANDCAMP, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, LINKED IN
ARTICLES: ON SOUNDALOUD
ARTWORK:

[original artwork]



FEEDBACK TO JOHNNY REI ON 19/06/13


Number 1 single seems to be the only upload you have on your account. How long has it been uploaded? And are you working on some new stuff? 

Otherwise what is this 528 Frequency you speak of? Is it about a band or just terminology you are using regarding your sounds?

Seeing the Numeber 1 single and some of the imagery in your account, I am drawn to the PR package approach you are wrapping yourself up in to get across.  The title? Meh. It got my attention, and I am sure others who search the indie database on Reverbnation.  That you reside in London arises my interest as to where you would be playing. 


The opening note reminds me of some of the late 90s Kula Shaker era music in Britain. You sound very, very British.  Something of a throwback to those times.  Did you go to a studio for this?  On the whole I feel the oomph the warmth and subtleties of the instruments that sound engineers are handsomely paid to bring out.  But I could be wrong, you may have composed this at home.



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Once the two-bar plus alternating key opening note is done, you then hit us with four by four disco tempo kick beats.  Again the disco environment in this track takes me back to the late 90s where many pop groups were incorporating it into their image and tracks.  Despite you going by a mockney gangster (studio name?) there is something of the lead singer from Kula Shaker in the sound of your voice or shall I say the lead singer of Arctic Monkeys to be more to date? 



Will it be a number 1 single? You have a lot of social networking website accounts opened but where is the interlinking between them?  For example is your Reverbnation linked to your Soundcloud? Or SC linked to your Bandcamp?  Have you Google searched your name with ‘music’ at the end, and seen what comes up?

Im number 1!... I am number 1
OTHER DEMOS TO LISTEN TO:

PERCUSSION - NITUS
JAZZ - STEVE MOHACEY

Have you considered getting your own domain to raise your profile within the cyberspace robots world? 

There is more to promotion than Reverbnation premier account automated fan pokes right?
You talk big, and have laid an attack to mark your space, but you need to now implement a strategy to get things more together.   

However good message on the frequency of feelgood music, I had to learn it from your Youtube video though, perhaps you should get the same message on all your accounts?

 


Nice to meet you too.

Rae Burnz







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