Reviews: Joaquin Gustav

Okay, today's review is Joaquin Gustav. Spanish guitar in Second Life.

And just awesome. An intimate instrument like the guitar, softly played, lends itself to listening in a virual world, where the headphones only increase the intimacy, giving one the feeling that they are sitting in a small little club in Real Life^™ listening to the music live.

Joaquin is a music instructor and performer from Argentina. One of the wonderful things about second life is that you can listen to someone live from France one hour, Argentina after that, and then finish up with a group of friends all thousands of miles apart all listening to someone performing in Toronto.

Anyway, Joaquin has a talent for taking any piece ever written it seems and turning it into a gentle tango that tugs at the heart chords. His music is gentle and soft and makes you want to hurt anyone with the temerity to launch an audible gesture. His riff on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is in and of itself worth the price of admission. But he has a talent for picking interesting songs that you would never think of as instrumental pieces for Spanish guitar until you find them in his capable hands.

Yeah, I know. It is not a Spanish guitar he is holding. Then again, it's Second Life. He could be holding a lute and the guitar sitting on his lap in the comfort of his home would still sound exactly the same.

Certainly an artist worth your attention. Okay, probably gonna say that alot in these reviews. Then again, if I think it is worth commenting on, then it is probably worth seeing.

In unrelated news, I was in attendance in Joaquin's concert in a new skin which was drawing some compliments, so here I am, looking a little more Indic than usual. I know, vanity, but it's not a bad look.

On a side side note, Googling him led me to the purevolume Web site. Way cool. Look at all those events in my area. Not with Joaquin, wrong continent, but still.

Addendum: Okay, helps if I spell his name right. At least I was consistent.