raw emotion

The history of French song is rich in quality artists personally but none moved me as much as Brel ... With him, we are no longer in the registry simple talent, you touch raw emotion .. . No one has managed to sing the great feelings and little things that make life more intensely, more sincerity, putting more soul there ... Not only his texts say the essential things and a superbly, but he also knows "live" his words as a person, they inject an unprecedented humanity ... Brel, is more than a voice, it is a presence, a heat, a hand is a beating heart close to yours ... The joy, sadness, hope, love, old age, the dream, all these hackneyed themes since the beginning of time, threadbare, found among it a new freshness ... "Do not leave me," "When we love," "The flat country", "Amsterdam" ... How many times have I heard them, these songs? Yet each time, their magic overwhelms me like the first day ... It's simple, Brel is the only singer who gives me the creeps ... He is a poet in the purest sense, the deepest, the most generous of the word ... In my personal pantheon, it borders on Verlaine and Villon ...