INCARNATION by Raoul Eden
Instrumental odyssey, INCARNATION gives voice to 6 and 12 string guitars, lap steel dobro, guembri and modular drones; There converse strongly written pieces with languorous ranges of improvisation.
Recorded around the crackling of the hearth, in the coldness of the heights of the French Massif Central; INCARNATION offers to hear, even in the amplified rustle of the fire, the cosmic forces that organize and defeat, help and doom without any humanly understandable reason.
Conducive to meditation, INCARNATION sings of the terrible joys and the calm despairs of the soul as it journeys through its austere landscapes.
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"Eden’s playing is on a par with the best, and his tracks explode out of the speakers like a plume of mind-altering gas, filling our heads and commanding our senses." THE QUIETUS
"The mind caught up in his canvases no longer believes in the existence of any frontiers, only that the universe is vast and that the edge of a black hole is beautiful all the same." LIBÉRATION
Radio Playback On Late Junction Radio 3's flagship programme for adventurous listeners BBC
"This month’s album of solo instrumental acoustic guitar music comes from Raoul Eden, a French player who is inspired by the giants of the genre—John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Jack Rose—but also by African and Middle Eastern music, Indian ragas, various flavors of the blues, and Western classical music." The Best Country Music on Bandcamp: February 2024
"This is folk music of the purest kind. Except that while folk music is rooted in a territory, Raoul Eden's is the folk music of fantasised worlds, an immaterial synthesis of all his travels and an immensely open mind." MAGIC RPM
"Raoul EDEN's album is as simple as it is beautiful." REVUE&CORRIGÉ
Tracklist
| 1. | Red Sun of a Moonless Morning | 8:01 |
| 2. | The Ghost Hound | 5:45 |
| 3. | Millions Now Living (improvisation) | 5:46 |
| 4. | Will Never Die (improvisation) | 6:46 |
| 5. | Beat Your Head with Glorious Songs | 8:09 |
| 6. | L'Oeil se Ferme | 2:58 |
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Raoul EDEN has developed a unique approach to the 12-string acoustic guitar; he distances himself as much as he resembles the masters of American primitive, John Fahey foremost among them, to practice a disordered and occult style that is more akin to Donald Miller and Robbie Basho on the fringes.
Repetitive, ecstatic textures and ephemeral, luminous melodies twist into intense, lunar forms.