“The Garden Of Eden”. This is the title of the opening piece of What A Devastating Turn Of Eventsthe first album by the British Rachel Chinouriri. An album which therefore opens in tranquility, despite its stormy title, as if to enjoy the last moments of calm before the storm of emotions. First of all, we don’t hear his voice, no. Not immediately. It is rather the song of the birds which comes to accompany our listening, to introduce it, as if to pick us up when we get out of bed. Then, a voice, distant, muffled, like that of a singer preparing. We must admire the artist for this: his ability to create a universe, a world within another, a bubble to enclose his listeners without its setting, and thus reveal to them as best as possible all his secrets.
It has been some time since Rachel Chinouriri is among the promises of the new English scene. Already last year, we found her among the artists to follow in the Rolling Stone British and the BBC. But with What A Devastating Turn Of Events, her first album, the young woman seems ready to cross the Channel and conquer the whole world. That’s at least what we hope for her, as her talent – and her charm – find few equals around her. Encounter.
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Nature as a protective mother
“I couldn’t avoid references to nature. This album is like home for me, and home for me are the birds that I heard in the morning when I woke up”. So our conversation begins with a Rachel Chinouriri smiling, an April morning in Paris. She is in full promotion of her first album and like all young artists, has this spark in her eyes that is unmistakable. A few hours before, she was in London, where she now lives. In the evening, she goes to Cologne, to continue defending What A Devastating Turn Of Events among journalists.
Despite its scary title, What A Devastating Turn Of Events is a resolutely warm album, both soft and catchy. At the crossroads of indie pop and rock, Rachel Chinouriri It tells the story of his family, interspersed with his own adventures, which often include unfit boys and stupid decisions. Never predictable, while remaining extremely well thought out and produced, it is full of words and sounds appealing to nature, from the previously mentioned rock ballad “Garden of Eden” to the song “The Hills” (in French: “ the hills”). “Today I live in London, where I hardly hear the birdsongshe tells us. But for the making of this album, I fled to the countryside, we recorded everything in a house far from the city”. Thus, nature, in the heart of which the artist grew up, in the forests of the Surrey region, appears as a protective mother, a shield against the atrocities experienced, both by herself, but especially by her family. , and who marked the history of Rachel Chinouriri.
