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Hi ! incredible sounding tracks!! Esp. Loved"secret passage" thanks to Peter O'lach !!.... Blessings... Julia:)
Hey Joe, Thank you so much for your generous comments on my track "Felicidad". I really appreciate it. I see that you compose orchestral and choir music as well. I will listen to your tracks as soon as I will have some time off. I look forward to do so. Sincerely, Stelios
Hi Stelios Your piece "The Secret Passage" is absolutely excellent. No wonder you are winning awards with your work ! best regards Tony
Hey Tony, Thank you so much for your kind comments. People's and colleagues´ feedback is the most precious award I can achieve. All the best, Stelios
You are most welcome Stelios... Tony
Hi Earle, Thank you for your kind review and constructive feedback on "Imago". All the best, Stelios
Hi there Stelios! Thanks for your great review of Skylark! You are quite the accomplished musician. Maybe we could work together in the future...? Would you mind looking at my I Dreamed a Dream and let me know what you think of the arrangement (my own), counter melody in the cello/strings (mine too) and the orchestration...I always need a great orchestrator!!! Good luck out there and on here and all the best to you!
Hi Deborah, Thank you for your good words. Coming from a musician like you, I have to say that I am honored. You have done a remarkable work in your tracks. I listened to "I dreamed a dream" and I really liked it. Strings are very wisely used, passionate, but on the same time discreet. I also liked the changes in melody and of course your vocals. However, one of the most interesting thing in all your tracks is that you always put in there nothing more than what your music needs, always skillful, but never overflowing. This is a virtue I highly appreciate. Yes, I would like to collaborate with you. If you have an idea, a melodic line, or just lyrics (I am a horrible lyricist), I would like to work with you and establish a collaboration. I am also interested in orchestration. All the best, Stelios
Hi Stelios, Thanks for the very kind words. Yes, would love to collaborate sometime on a project. Where do you live? LA ? I get to LA pretty often since my sister is out there "in the business" (movies that is). She was in The Artist and on the Golden Globes. This business is tough to break into, you have had much success. I'm very happy for you. I do write lyrics mainly, but also hear tunes, etc. let's be friends on here and keep in touch, okay? If you are ever in Texas please let me know? Take care! Deborah
I also have to mention that my producer, Troy Warren of Absolute Sound, was fantastic in aiding with the arrangements and orchestration...he is in Houston too.
Hi Deborah, Congratulations for your sister! It is really obvious that behind this good sound there is a good producer. I was about to ask. It will be my pleasure to meet both of you. Actually, I live in London, but I will be in LA this March for a documentary. I agree, let´s stay in touch and maybe we may come up with something. Sincerely, Stelios
yes, we live an ocean apart! But the world is getting smaller and smaller. Good luck with the documentary. Sounds like you are into social issues, a good thing.
Dear Stelios, Thank you for your kind review of my song, "Time to Practice Gratitude". I just listened to Girl in the Dark and I am very impressed. Wow! I can see why you have won all the awards for composing for drama. That was very spooky with no girl walking into harm on the screen. Thank you again and good luck--you should definitely be submitting to the licensing opportunities on Broadjam! Best regards, Sue Nikas
Hi Susan, Your track is just great, I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for your comments-I am really honored. All the best, Stelios
Hi Stelios You ask a good question, it was a song I wrote and produced under a deadline and and brought in a session musician. The problem was he was a bartender for his day job and i think he also did a lot of blow.....did not know that when I hired him. Anyway, it took three nights of him showing up totally bombed and out of it for me to seek other alternatives. In a perfect world I would have found another sax player, but by the end I only had 12 hours to rap and deliver to the production company. So I used (in a rare case) a feature in pro-tools called "beat detective" and replaced his horribly played line with a sample line. You can still hear one of his better (actually the best take barely in the background where there is a sax double starting about half way through. Rich Pullin hated that double line and said it was a not a good technique and detracted from the mood of the sax tones. But it was a sort of work around that worked out in the end. I like the song and the melody a lot and may someday reproduce the track. But I don't write Jazz as much as I used to. The Sample is from Chris Heins horns Library. Which I think is pretty great. I blame the time crunch for its final state, which leave some listeners wondering if it is a real sax. It is half real. :) Kind regards, -Benjamin Stone
Hi Benjamin, So good to hear from you. I always admire and enjoy listening to your music. The track is great and now that you mention me that you had such a tight deadline, I think you have done a remarkable job. Well done! I had to face a similar issue once i was composing for a children's play and I used the Brass from Liquid Instruments Collection. It is a phrase editor with some very expressive loops installed and It has its own editor even as a plugin and this might become a bit tricky when you do not have the time to spend learning how it works. But it is based on Melodyne' s engine as far as I can remember, so if you are familiar with the program, you will find it very easy to use. I agree CH library is very good. Again, the track is really great. I am looking forward to hear more jazz tracks from you. Do you have any others posted here? All the best, Stelios
Hey thanks Stelios. Yes I do, some are much older (from the 90's and I did not ever produce them beyond the sequencing in the Korg triton I had back then. Dreamer In The Dream (last Jazz I did, but it won't appeal to any Jazz purists. However a nice demo of Hollywood Brass) Kronic Blues Hot Brainy Woman Top Shelf Whiskey Drunk Coffee The Parlor
I'll take a look, I like Melodyne but dont have much experience with their stuff.
That's great, I am looking forward to listen to your tracks. By the way, what do you think about Hollywood Brass? I have made a mistake earlier. The exact name is Liquid Instruments-the saxophone, by Ueberschall. I would not use it on every occasion, but in cases like the ones we faced, it can be really helpful and deliver very convincing results, because it is actually based on loops played by sax performers that you simply edit and tweak. Though, as any pitch and time procession program, you cannot get the most out of these samples without the usual artifacts on sound.
WOW!!! I thank you for the outstanding scores on FTIB. Coming from such an accomplished composer I certainly appreciate it. Thanks!!! Paul
I just got a new synthesizer(Spectrasonics Omnisphere) and expect my music to go to another level. Can't wait. I just finished writing and recording the soundtrack for an hour and a half independent film called "The Test". It will be released later this month. It's too bad I didn't have my new synth while I was working on it but I'm certainly not unhappy with the way it turned out. Some of the recent tunes I posted on broadjam are in the movie (A New Beginning, Low Street, The Test and Visions of You, are a couple of them). I'm so looking forward to working on more. I had so much fun!
Love your music Stelios. I wish I could play piano as well as you. You are great!!!!
My pleasure Paul, Your track is really great. Well done, I hope you go further with your career. Omnisphere is one of the greatest synths indeed. You will enjoy it on upcoming productions so do not worry. Sincerely, Stelios
Thanks Stelios for the review of my piece 'Passage To Eden' I agree with you I wish I could get some top notch sound libraries,I'm broke !! sometime soon I will upgrade. Appreciate your kind words. Regards, Mike.
Hi Mike, I know, money is always an issue and it is unfair sometimes Because we always have to stay updated in an industry were we rarely have income to support this kind of funding. However, there are some good low priced libraries that you can deliver remarkable results with a bit of tweaking. I would not like to mention them online, but if you want I can send you some links. There is also a top-class university that offers a significant to one of them when enrolling to one of its online courses. The total amount for the course and the library is approximately the same one to get one of the top libraries. , Sincerely, Stelios
thanks for that. best wishes Mike.
Hey Srelios Thanks for kind words on "New Worlds". I appreciate your scoring as well. Steve
Hi Steve, It is always a pleasure to hear from you. I really admire your music. Every track is so different and rich in it's context. I consider the issue of "personality" in one's music as one the rarest and most important virtues of a composer. And you really have that on every track I have heard from you. All the best, Stelios
Hi Kenneth, I have heard one of your serenade tracks and I really loved it. I have also read that you composed it in three days and I was really impressed. Well done! I also work with very strict deadlines, but I would not make such a great track in just three days!, congratulations!
Yeah, it seems to be a gift and a curse. These things spring almost fully realized in my head however, I can't usually deviate from what's in my head. Say, on another subject, have you heard anything about the scam alert about Broadjam? Read this: http://www.scamchecker.com/content/roy-elkins-broadjamcom-broadjamcom-steals-your-money-and-dreams 1
Hi Kenneth, Thanks for the link, it seems quite interesting, although I have not read all of it yet. Will wou let me read it and I will get back to you shortly. Sincerely, Stelios
Hi Kennneth, That was quite shocking indeed I am not sure what to believe and what not, but speaking honestly, I cannot say that I have a personal success here that proves the opposite of what I have read there. Do you? On the other hand, this does not mean that these reports are true One thing is for sure though. If I will not get an opportunity success soon, I will not refresh my membership. Maybe i am not good enough, maybe it's the providers, maybe it is broadjam, i do not know. But definately, there are a lot of maybes that will prevent me from renewing my membership. I was registered here through a promotional code anyway. What I personally have to report is that during the course of an opportunity (ID: FT12AK01), I logged in to check the its status after the expiration of the decision deadline and there was no report at all. The provider had not logged in yet. Half an hour later, I receive a notification that the status of the opportunity had changed, so I logged in again to check what is going on...the provider had listened to all of the tracks and decided that none of them was suitable., so the question goes: did the provider listened to 92 tracks in 30 minutes??? I do not think so. Maybe this fact does not have to do with broadjam, maybe it has to do with the provider. Maybe he choose a track from another site. Hence another question rises: if he choose from another site, why did not s/he informed us? The answer is obvious- because we could claim our money back. Hence since providers most probably earn an amount from the fees of the submission system (not sure about that though), then there is no reason at all not to take this money. So why not listening to every track for some seconds just to inform the submission statistics and take this money? However, I have a disturbing impression that somehow providers are always protected. They post here anonymously they remain anonymous after the expiration of the decision deadline, they do not reveal the projects concerning the opportunities etc. Okay, I really understand the issue of confidentiality in these kind of business, but at the end of the day, musicians are the only ones left unprotected, right? This thing really annoys me. Furthermore, I cannot see why at the end of the selection process we are not revealed the name of the project, or generally what was this all about? We do get ads about Liscencing successes, but they are very general. I would feel way more comfortable if we could have at least the name of the show, film, ad etc for every opportunity once the selection process is done. What do you think about that? Sincerely, Stelios
Thank you so much for your kind words regarding Tea In Our Starbucks Cups. I really enjoy your work! Was in London in 2008 and fell in love with your city. Best to you! -Loren
My pleasure Loren. Your track is Great! Keep on going. I really enjoyed it. Thank you also for your good words. All the best, Stelios
Dear Ron, Thank you for reviewing my track "Out of Season". I am really flattered by your comments. I always wanted to extend on this track, but blues is not my first choice-although it has been always my favorite. All the best, Stelios
Stelios, I enjoyed the track very much. Are you playing a Dobro or just slide guitar. Anyways, there are a lot of uses for that sound in film and tv.
Thank you again Ron. It is indeed just slide guitar, but it was made by a stereo combination of electric humbacks and electroacoustic piezos (and a lot of tweaking), maybe that is why it sounds a bit different. I personally love that sound.
Hi Kenneth, Thank you so much for taking the time to review my track "The Days that will Come". I am truly honored by your comments. Sincerely, Stelios
Hi Donn, Congratulations on the recent film placement! We are together in this. All the best, Stelios
Thanks! Congrats to you too!
Greetings Stelios- Your latest compositions are great. I am truly enjoiying watching your style evolve. Cheers! -Benjamin Stone
Hi Benjamin, Thank you so much for your good words. It is really important to hear this from you. Your work is an example of talent and intelligence. Cheers Stelios
Hi Robert, Thank you so much for your generous review on the "Mystic Dance". I really appreciate it. Thank you also for your advices and the valuable information. All the best , Stelios
Hi, Thank you so much for your compliments and your review-I just read it. It is the most valuable and thorough review I 've ever had and I really appreciate it. In all points you are right. I also listened to some of your tracks and I have to say that you have an excellent work out there. Keep on going, you have composed some very good melodic lines and all of them are supported by excellent arrangement and instrumentation. This is the most succesfull combination and a very rare gift. So, I only have to say: keep on going!
Thank you Stelios. Coming from a composer of your caliber, that's high praise! Thanks!
Hi Stelios! I just had the pleasure of reviewing one of your pieces. Great job! Since we compose in similar fields, I'd like to invite you to hear some of my orchestral work as well. In the meantime, I'd like to take the opportunity to listen to more of your music and keep in touch.
That would be wonderful. Thank you for taking the time to review my track. I will listen to yours asap and I will stay in touch
Dear Kenneth, Thank you so much for your generous review on "The Journey". I am trully honored to receive such comments from a talented musician like you. You have done a remarkable work at "The Minoans of Crete" and indeed, I have to make a better mix and mastering for the track. All the best, Stelios
Hi Anne, Thank you so much for your review on "Felicidad-Title Sequence IV". It is an honor to receive such good words from you. Thank you! Stelios
Hi, Thank you for your time and your valuable review on "Nothing above us". Your comments are highly appreciated. Sincerely, Stelios
Hi Pistolero, Thank you so much for you review on "Out of Season", I really appreciate it. Indeed, there was a time limit for the track by its visual counterpart. It was originaly scored for a short film's scene. Sincerely, Stelios
Hello Stelios. thanks for reviewing the Bifocal Blues. Yours is probably the most right-on insightful, encouraging review I have gotten on that song. You didn't mind that it was recorded live. Thanks for that! Anyway, it's a fun song to sing at my senior shows. I have a new one called "Nothing I can do about the Wrinkles" which should be up in another 6-8 months when I get my new CD released. So....is it really as bad as they say it's getting in Greece? Your songwriting friend in FL, Mrs. Kate www.MrsKate.com
Hi Tony Thanks for your usefull review on "Nothing Above Us". I really appreciate it
Hi Benjamin, Thank you for your comments and constructive feedback on "Felicidad". Your reviews are always welcomed and extremely useful. I am honored. Sincerely, Stelios
You're welcome Stelios.
Hi Pash, Again your review (on The Journey) was really helpful and constructive. I always enjoy your comments and feedback. Thank you for taking the time to listen, Sinceely, Stelios
Hi , You are very welcome , I think all of those were great ... Best , Pasha
Hi Pasha, Thank you so much for your thorough review on the "Vengeance". Your comments are highly appreciated. Stelios
Hi , You are welcome . Good tune , Keep up good work , Best , Pasha
Hi Ricardo-Thank you for your review on "Nothing above us". Your comments are highly appreciated. Congratulations for your distinctions and I hope you all the best, Stelios
Thank you Stelios for your Kind Review, it meens lot, Im gonna spend some quality time later listening also to your music. Maybe we could get our heads together in the future and see if we could co-write or something if you are interested? again thank you very much
It was my pleasure Ronnie and it will also be my pleasure to collaborate with you
Thats great to here thank you. if you send me an email with your details I will send you more information about were im at at the moment. and if you have any ideas in the meen time we can maybe have a look too. again thank you
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