about l’eveil
L’eveil is a musical and literary world: a ten-album arc, a body of prose and imagery, and a prospective manuscript all emerging from the same underlying expression.
The word L’eveil first appeared in 2016 after watching Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a film about the discovery of Chauvet Cave in Southwest France, where some of the oldest known human paintings had remained sealed in darkness for more than 30,000 years.
Years later, the word returned during a kind of unraveling. A quiet desperation. The recognition of a mask woven from the fibers of fear, doubt, external validation, and the need to be legible to others. With this recognition the mask began to fall away, leaving in its wake a liminal space.
Writing began in the early morning hours, in the dark, when it seemed the rest of the world was still asleep.
The intent was never technical. Each album began by mapping the landscape at hand, naming the emotional terrain through the album and song titles, and then working through those coordinates one by one. Much of the material was metabolized in motion, while running or walking in nature, until the songs began to emerge. They were shaped, iterated, and listened into form until they seemed to confirm their own completion.
Only in retrospect did it become clear that the albums were not isolated expressions, but movements within a larger throughline, traversing self-betrayal, contemplation, grief, death, renewal, connection, and return.
Wars of Abstraction is the first recorded doorway into this world.