“Incarnation”: the carnatic getaway of Raoul Eden

Raoul Eden released incarnation in 2024. Since then, the guitarist continues his tour, giving way to whoever wants to listen to him, tales and legends reported in his bag. An album of great beauty, necessary in this world, cathartic music, purely instrumental which transmits its messages.

The variations in folk, reported from distant regions, recall the popular images of formerly, photographic snapshots in space where each image is considered a fragment of a specific duration. Music in which the trip is embodied by these heroes, hobos, storytellers and mestrels. Raoul Eden Go even deeper and further, through its instrumental compositions where acoustic guitars, Dobro, and drones rub shoulders like traveling companions with carnatic intonations.

It’s been a year since Incarnation Released, and yet this album perpetuates this undeastable work status, embellished with a morphism, whose gesture in the form of amplitudes, is symbolized by consecutive lamellae, all illustrated by a sober cover, stylized by an ecstatic trophy. Raoul Eden Continue to perform on stage, and has not finished his pilgrimage. Let’s say, that the instruments are one with the musician, listen Red Sun of a Moonless Morning to be convinced. Raoul Eden Play with the same veracity in the studio as on stage. His music is comparable to the project of Rick Tomlinson (Voice Of The Seven Woods), the sound viscosity is honored here by dissonances on the low strings, a picking of an absolute mastery which also evokes Ben Chasny. Beat Your Head With Glorious Songs Provides a whole visual imaging on the thought screen, wooden fires in the evening, life in the countryside, where paranoia fades in the soil covered by the majestic giant forests of the Massif Central.

A dirt road as a highway. Somewhere in the distant setting sun, a world of machines and dirt is always spreading more: listening to such beautiful music, we are ashamed of the ugliness of the world. A work is not measured in minutes, the music of Raoul Eden is sacred, intended to purify the soul, it is a bridge towards the world of the invisible. As a whole, the compositions are imbued with ancestral legends, ancient mysteries. After Animareleased a month before, Incarnation Explore the multiple facets of instruments in intervals in quarters, hence this specific tuning. There are even some improvisations (Millions Now Living or Will Never Die) Where from an agreement, a whole section of folk music takes this hypnotic, but never repetitive aspect. A kind of intoxication that feels the turmoil dervishes which is transmitted and infused slowly.

While Sophia Djebel Rose is currently on tour, the two travel companions intersect on stage during solo performances, their alliance is such that their duo An Eagle In Your Mind will hit the road to the studio… at least is it an omen?

Franck Irle

Raoul Eden – Incarnation
Self -production
Date of publication: March 31, 2024