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Hi Dario, First, I'd like to thank you for having reviewed my song. It's quite tough I must say, but very accurate. I agree on every point. About the accent, actually you're not the first one who reproaches me the French accent, not "genuine" enough as you said. Hard for me, as a French man, to get rid of every pronunciation mistake. But, I know I can do far better. By the way, I noticed that I've been improving myself on that part since I recorded "We Are". You probably guessed that every instrument of the song is virtual (including drums: EZDrummer from Toontrack, and bass: Scarbee Precision Bass from Native Instruments). I think that can explain why the performance of these instruments bothered you. I have some good plugins especially from Universal Audio, which help me (when I use them properly) to fake a bit the feeling of artificial virtual instruments... Sometimes it sounds almost natural, sometimes not. To be honest with you, at the beginning, working on my own was like a challenge for me. At the very beginning actually, I wanted to make a band, but I never found musicians who I feel "connected" with unfortunately... I mean having the same aspirations than me. So, a few years ago, I was fed up waiting for the good ones, and decided to learn the usage of DAW, virtual instrument plugins (because I'm not multi-instrumentist!), mixing plugins... and finally noticed that it was much harder than expected and that requires a lot of work and skills. Some of them I don't have. That's also why I'm all the more respectful and admirative of your work, by the way. Yes, length is my big problem. I like to make long songs... but I'm aware that I really have to improve this. Sometimes, people tells me (I can't say if they're sincere or not) that they don't realize my songs are so long. I take this as a compliment... this does not help me to create shorter songs, but I'm aware of that. Believe me, I really would like to work with you. Unfortunately, I don't know your rates, but I'm afraid I can't afford them. Anyway, I would be interested to know how you could help me, and how much are your rates. Maybe, you could spread the word to interested people (musicians or producers) ? maybe you are ? :) Thank you once more for your very good review. (Hope my English is not so awful.) All the best, Sébastien
Hey Sebastien, Thanks for the positive feedback. Please drop me an email on dariodendi@me.com so we can talk further. Thanks