JESTER
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³Comments  From  the  studio  musician,
Andreas Stenhager:
¹
Most  of  the  tunes that I've had the
opportunity to hear from this guy were
made  to the masses, and I have a hard
time  to recognize any sign of musical
talent in this sort of music.  I'm not
saying   that   Jester   doesn't  have
talent,  he  probably  has lots of it,
but  if  you're making pop/techno this
way,  you  don't  show  it.  I can, as
already  stated, imagine that this guy
is  loved  by the masses(am I right?),
but it doesn't give me anything.
 
The drums in Jester's tunes are almost
never as complex as they have to be if
your  aim  is  to  create this kind of
music.   Complex  doesn't have to mean
lots  of  notes,  but  a massive sound
that  sounds right!  Anyway, after all
I  can't  complain because many of the
Amigamusicians  don't  have  the  real
musical knowhow(although the technical
knowhow  often is greater than I could
imagine!), and thus many of them don't
have  drums  complex  enough  in their
songs.

Some  of  Jester's  melodies  are very
nice,  some are not.  If he would have
varied  the  leadinstrument  more from
song  to  song,  I  think  the overall
judgement would have been higher.  'My
glamorous  life'  is very nice in some
aspects, and this is the song with the
¶most 'real' drums.  Maybe because they
consist of sequences.

The  bassline  is very simple, as they
use  to  be in pop, and I think Jester
does the right thing not doing it more
varied.
The  chords/voices  are  sometimes bad
looped,  but  he knows how to handle a
piano(at  least  it  sounds so when he
selects the accords).
The only techno song I have heard from
this  guy  starts  very  nice,  with a
quiet  nice  beat,  but  then he slows
down  the  tempo  very  cheap  and the
general  sound falls down to zero.  If
Jester  will  make more songs, I would
advise   him   to   make  either  fast
popsongs  or  even  techno, because of
what  I  have  heard, that seems to be
his personal style.


³Diesel's comment:
¹I  have  a  hard time figuring out why
people     love     Jester's    music.
'Jesterday'  had  one  good  song,  My
glamorous  life, but the rest was just
about  average!   I like the beginning
of  the  Pygmy  Projects song, but not
the     middle     part    with    the
woooaaaaoo-lead   which   belongs   to
Lizardking.   An  average guy, nothing
more!