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ON THE WAY TO EDEN
EDEN ROSE
1970 , FRANCE - EURO 13.00
Label: MUSEA/ROCK SYMPHONY
ALBUM REVIEW
Initially released in 1969, Eden Rose’s album has become a mythical album of the early progressive french rock. The keyboardist Henri Garella and the bass player Christian Clairefond had an intense studio career (with french singers like Claude François, Michèle Torr, Hervé Vilard…), and the guitarist Jean-Pierre Alarcen was one of the most gifted session musicians of his generation (with jacques Dutronc for example; he later played for renaud, Toure Kunda, Louis Chedid and lots of others). With drummer Michel Jullien, they created a beautiful and refined instrumental music, made of dialogues between Garella’s organ and Alarcen’s guitar. Eden Rose can be brought near bands like Nice, Cressida, or Czar, with a more jazzy tendancy. Garella, Alarcen and Jullien were on their way to create, two years later, the absolute classic of french progressive rock, SANDROSE. Eden Rose’s music is different, but also sophisticated, refined, technically brilliant.
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