Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Norris Shepherd and EvaMoonEmber on a friday evening


It is always good to listen to Norris. Whatever mood you were in when you started listening I promise you it will improve. Norris is the kind of performer who relates to his audience all the time. He laughs a lot, and he will make you laugh. Both his guitar and voice are very gentle. I so much like his interpretations of especially Radiohead and Prince. This evening he also played the Beatles song: ” My guitar gently weeps”. I loved that. He was playing at Club CasaBlanco, and the theme was some kind of back to school, so Norris was standing behind a teacher’s desk. Of course the audience, or at least some of them, were dressed as pupils. People were having a really good time.
After having had our moods lifted by Norris we continued to Rastafairy Beach, a beautiful venue run by hexx Triskaidekaphobia and jsmn Jao. We wanted to listen to EvaMoon Ember. It is not the first time we have done that and certainly not the last.
What a woman! What a performer! She is a wonderful piano player with a fantastic voice. In first life she plays with her band The Lunatics, and in a lot of the songs she does in Second Life they have recorded the backing tracks. Her songs are about… Well I’ll quote from Eva Moon & the Lunatics’ homepage. I hope she doesn’t mind: "Her songs hit your ears like a double shot of espresso. Far from your typical singer-songwriter fare, they’re ironic, energetic commentaries on modern life - sexy comic jazz journey in the company of terrorist cats, Nigerian bank managers, sexy UPS guys, psychotic baristas and more. If you've ever lost your heart to a chocolate bar, frightened an innocent child, or traded a man for a vibrator, she has a song for you."
We were lucky to hear the premiere of her new song. I didn’t catch the title, but it was about falling in love with a woman, and it was beautiful. Fyrm was quite excited about it and kept telling Eva how great it was.
I can never get tired of saying, that it’s so great that you can listen to amazing music like that in Second Life, and you can do it for free. Of course you will tip the artist and the venue generously if you can, but basically…. It’s free.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Kris Electricteeth at the Pond



It is a while since I wrote anything here. I have been busy. Among other things I went to Amsterdam for 3 days. I so love that city. Anyway – there is a lot of musicians I would like to write about. I noticed that I so far have only been writing about male musicians. It must be a coincidence. There are great female musicians in Second Life, and several that I want to write about.
Last evening my friend and I kind of stumbled into a gig with Kris Electricteeth at the Pond. I haven’t heard him before. I wonder if he is new in Second Life? Apparently he had stepped in at the last moment because of a cancellation.
He played a variety of covers. From Steppenwolf to Beatles. And he was good. Good solid guitar playing and an interesting voice, that suited the guitar. He also did a Johnny Cash song, and that was pretty awesome. I wasn’t really prepared to do a review, so this is not a very thorough description of his music, but I wanted to draw SL music listeners attention to him. Go check him out! Oh and all this about paying for listening to music in Second Life. It seems that some are already doing that. I really hope it will not be the deafult situation, but only an exception to the rule, that listening to music in Second Life is free.