Eddie: A Dog's Journey

The music of Cloud Cult has always intrigued me.  I have been what one might call, “a fan,” for some years now.  Much of what attracts me is the aspect of overwhelming passion that each song evokes.  While people might interpret the music of an artist differently - I have yet to meet anyone who could not feel the hefty emotional tug that is prevalent in so many Cloud Cult songs.

They are an equally fantastic band live as well.  Craig Minowa’s presence, which is perhaps dressed in his experiences, one of which is devastatingly sad, oozes on-stage to leave the crowd feeling as if they were a lead character in a tragic, but hopeful, opera.

That is not easy to do.  A live presence of that magnitude might be the most difficult thing an artist can create.  It can’t be trained.  It just is or it isn’t.

I have always thought Cloud Cult’s music the perfect backdrop as well.  Which is why for my Saturday set I will attempt to use it for just that. Their music will be at once a central theme – while also serving to set the table for a story that shall attach itself to the melancholy of Minowa’s work. 

I call it: Eddie, A Dog’s Journey.  Featuring the music of Cloud Cult and Others.”  The story will be a simple one – more child-like in its innocence - but with a theme that takes us on a journey of discovery that, though of a dog, may not be unlike our own experiences as humans.  After all, we all feel joy, sadness, boredom, and confusion: dog and human alike.

The story I wrote, which will flow in local chat for people to follow as they wish, will lend itself as well, in most cases, for you to come and go when you please and to find your place in Eddie’s journey from that point.  Of course, to fully appreciate the experience, and to share in the beauty of some of Cloud Cult’s greatest works, to be there from beginning to end would give the listener (and reader) a more complete journey.

I don’t want to call it a concept set - or an experimental set even.  It’s just music and a story: two things that go so well together.  And while it may be unusual in Second Life, it is an age-old theatre of combined artistry that has entertained for generations.

11:00AM-1:00PM SLT.   Just after Frequency and right before Lux - as part of Love Your Pet@The Velvet Day that will feature themed music running all day and into the night.