Eyal Erlich summoned the legacy-rich soul of blues in ‘All in All’ –

As Eyal Erlich works behind the scenes on his debut album, his fans remain poised, waiting to see how the raw vulnerability that pours from his live sets will be channelled into mastered explorations of love, loss, and all the questions left to echo in their silence. His latest preview, All in All, makes a compelling case for what’s to come.

In this live rendition, Erlich delivers a mesmerisingly melodic revisitation to the seraphic grooves of old soul-stained blues, stripped to its bare, affecting bones. The kind that could make a room fall to reverent silence, hanging off every intuitively plucked note and every breath of a chord that sounds like it’s reaching into history.

The performance casts its spell through the patient weight of emotion, through a quasi-meditative arrangement that doesn’t rush to crescendo, because it knows its power lies in stillness. It’s the kind of track that lives and breathes in the spaces between, flirtatious with new romantic tendencies, yet anchored by a classic, lounge-like sense of intimate immediacy. If the Doors ever folded into something quieter and more contemplative, this is what might have surfaced.

Recorded live as a raw sketch of what’s to come, All in All proves Erlich doesn’t need studio gloss to strike deep. He only needs a guitar, a still room, and the ability to speak to your soul in its native tongue.

The live performance of All in All is available to stream on YouTube. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast