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LabGraal in Second Life: the success goes on! |
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| 03 December 2011 | ||||
I remember when I started playing dj in-world: the problems with the streaming, my first set, my first moderation through the mic, it was amazing. I though that probably it was going to be just a question of time before bands in real world were going to use the same strategy to perform on virtual stages with their avatars. LabGraal chose this path, the road to virtual live concerts, rapidly gathering fans and gigs. LabGraal is an italian band with more than 20 years of history, 4 officially released albums, hundreds of live performances all over Europe and recently in the metaverse too. Sheela Nagy is the beautiful voice and front girl of the band, composed by 4 other members (JohnTitor Shan, LokiGraal Merlin, Narval Roux, Gyot Greenwood ) playing guitar, flute, keyboard and drums. The genre they perform is Celtic music, the most intensive, catchy and charming music of the Irish tradition but wait, don’t get them wrong, they do not stop at that: LabGraal expand the borders of folk sounds mixing and blending it with traditional Scottish and Breton, Center-African, Native American and Native Australian music, defining a fresh brand new melting pot of melodies and spirituality. I knew about LabGraal reading blogs and other e-newspapers related to Second Life. I was astonished knowing that a non-Irish band was playing traditional Irish Music on S. Patrick’s Day at Relay for Life main event, so I got curious and waited to go see/hear them “virtually” live.
Their performance was at Trilateral Theatre, a stage built in the joining point of 4 sims, for the “Warchild” event, an event pro-children that became orphans because of wars. As I got there I could not believe what I was seeing: the crowd was massive, I think I counted more than one hundred avatars spreaded in all 4 sims! The stage was breathtaking and the band was amazing! I selected midnight view and full power Windlight settings (did I tell you about my new videocard? I call It “the beast”...yeah I know, I’ll never stop telling you about it!), and sat at home enjoying the show! I am a music lover and I pay a lot of attention to the quality of the sounds, especially using a pair of Bose Triport earphones, but I can tell you that the streaming, the equalization and the clearness of the sound was unbelievable. I really was not expecting that such a high quality performance was possible in Second Life. The band is fascinating, charming, pushing me to dance and to relax, as well as to think about the message of the lyrics. Sheela Nagy’s voice is warm, clear, suggestive, impressive as the playing skills of the musicians, jumping from Irish traditional music to Scottish folk, passing through Native Australian sounds and African rythms. After a while I felt like I’ve been put a spell on, realizing that I was being there since 45 minutes and I still was feeling like I just got 5 minutes before. Too soon the gig was over leaving me starving for more and more LabGraal. I’m not just going to suggest you to “buy a ticket” to their next live concert (don’t worry, really no ticket needed), I will do more, I’ll keep you posted and even send you a taxi, because I’ll come too! LabGraal is music to feed your soul and we all need to take a bite of it.
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