New Sept 2009 - "I've Been Deceived"

Amazing Grace, Chloe's Eyes, Keep Me Strong, My Baby Girl, Longing, Time to Say Goodbye

Freshman Release - Simple Beginnings

A Snippet from a CD Review and Commentary for "Simple Beginnings" by Jeff Irvin - Infinite-Life and Sleeping Dog Studios

What you hear is what you get...(The Songs) -   I mentioned above that there were a lot of instrumental songs on this project.  There are, but Deanna also does some singing on I Dream of You, I Will Praise You, Return to Me, You Are My Life and Where Do We Go.  She has an excellent voice and it has a really soothing timbre to it.  I really like her background vocal work as well.  My favorite of her vocal tracks would be I Dream of You.  Good work there.  The remainder of the tracks are instrumentals.  Angels has some really cool melody lines in it.  My only recommendation on that song would be to shorten it a tad.  Remember, keep the listener interested and part of that process is not going a overly long in length.  Embers Falling is a piano driven song with some really talented playing on it.  Mia & Tanni has some guitar solo work that drives the melody of this song.  Kinda reminds me of Wes Montgomery a little.  Romance of the Daisy and the title track Simple Beginnings are well written songs as well that could benefit from some sampler work.  Also, on tunes like these I would use the chirping bird effect a little less often as it kinda detracted from the melody lines going on.  My favorite of the instrumental work would be Summer Day.  Really dug that tune alot as it allowed me to draw some cool mental pictures.  Blue Ribbon Day ends the project with some guitar work that really accented this song nicely.  There is some really good songwriting here and I would like to encourage Deanna to continue to write and see the road to which it leads.  She has the talent....

Exit Stage Left (Final Thoughts) - Overall for a first project go round this is a great starting point.  I have said it a thousand times and I'll say it again, today's technology allows the everyday person like you and me to fulfill the dreams of getting our work out there for people to listen to and Deanna's project is no different.  I encourage everyone to go to her web site and check out the clips she has available.  I really look forward to her next release so that I can see where she is being taken on her creative journey.  Best wishes to her and her family...

Jeff  http://www.infinite-life.org/Jervin.htm

The Christmas CD "Christmas is Coming" preview and/or purchase.   

Traditional Christmas music with a new twist. Some techno, some grunge guitars as well as folk instruments. A few vocals thrown in the mix to "spice" it up. The title song is a new original.