AtanariaThere often is a feeling of guilty pleasure when listening to music but rarely do we experience the sensation of space travelling gently between stars and planets alike. In my case, apart from Joni Mitchell and quite probably Stevie Nicks’ voices, none had ever made me feel like a starwoman waiting in the sky. That was until my other half made me discover Ruelle.
Ruelle’s new single grouping the songs “Ripple” and “Conquer” constitutes a masterpiece of heavy and mid bass sounds used as waves of thunder floating in a humid morning sky in West Virginia. The very ecclectic composition feels as though each every note and corner of the songs depict a feeling, a mood or an experience; therefore giving the lyrics a deeper meaning, just as Seurat’s paintings backgrounds in the heat of pointillism. This maestria of high and low notes manages to encompass a wide array of intense emotions, allowing the lyrics to surface in an organic, intense way. The magic truly operates when the bass hammers the choruses and elevates the messages of the songs with the lightness of a dove’s flight. The mesmerizing lyrics will often mantra-like experiences when listened to in a focused, introspect mode and will resonate with whoever is seeking elevation.
Setting this most significant single of 2024 from her well-rounded albums like Madness and Emerge, we can clearly see a beautiful and steady evolution, bringing maturity in musical composition but also a deeper voyage in the lyrics carrying each song with a certain feeling of freedom and spirituality in some sense. As I mentioned before, this single in the continuity of her work for the cinema and television industries and her work as a solo artist affirming her very own singular style, feels like a real oracular elevation, both precious and intense.
In 2011, Heartstone said : “Euterpe, giver of delight, words of the heart are yours, sonnets and ballads and poems of love. Goddess, we see your hand in the songs of Sappho, we hear you in the interplay of metre and rhyme. By your art we hold open our souls to the world; your touch gives voice to the truth within us. Euterpe, goddess, child of Olympos, I honor you.” Wanting to give Euterpe, the greek goddess of music, a striking hommage that for some reason reminds me of both the words and musical lines of ‘Ripple’ and ‘Conquer’.
Overall, discovering Ruelle was for me a fascinating stop in my musical journey as I was able to metaphorically plunge into an ocean of otherwordly musical pleasures — and not even guilty pleasures, I might add. Being able to discover a new artist that transcends the common order of consensual lyricism and commercial musical composition is ravishing and eventhough it is rare, it is nonetheless a delight. Ruelle feels like one of these female artists who would deserve the scene space and focus of Florence Welsh and I trully hope that 2024 is the year we see a new full album coming out. I surely be waiting impatiently for more chalices of musical delectation and textual joys.
