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When a young Belgian from Brussels fi rst started playing his songs in Paris, he wasn’t received with much enthusiasm. Juliette Gréco, already a star in the early fifties, requested to sing and record one of his songs: ‘After all, I could help him out. I was already famous!’

It marked the beginning of a tremendously successful international career for Jacques Brel. Gréco and Brel became friends for life.

Brel wrote ‘Le plat pays’ about West Flanders, an officially Dutchspeaking
region in Belgium from which his family originated; a place he hated and loved, with its cathedrals as its only mountains, where the low mist imposes humility, where the sea can be wild and the wind blows from all corners.

It isn’t hard to imagine wind and sea when you hear Jacques Brel sing. Even when calm, his voice seems to be infused with a feverish and unpredictable quality; always ready to erupt into a storm.

Brel’s family left West Flanders, but it might never have left him…

Brel considered Ernst van Altena’s Dutch translation of ‘Le plat pays’ more beautiful than his own words, therefore Le plat pays is recorded in Dutch on this album under the title: ‘Mijn vlakke land’.

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Wanneer de Noordzee koppig breekt aan hoge duinen
En witte vlokken schuim uiteenslaan op de kruinen
Wanneer de norse vloed beukt aan het zwart basalt
En over dijk en duin de grijze nevel valt
Wanneer bij eb het strand woest is als een woestijn
En natte westenwinden gieren van venijn
Dan vecht mijn land, mijn vlakke land

Wanneer de regen daalt op straten, pleinen, perken
Op dak en torenspits van hemelhoge kerken
Die in dit vlakke land de enige bergen zijn
Wanneer onder de wolken mensen dwergen zijn
Wanneer de dagen gaan in domme regelmaat
En bolle oostenwind het land nog vlakker slaat
Dan wacht mijn land, mijn vlakke land

Wanneer de lage lucht vlak over het water scheert
Wanneer de lage lucht ons nederigheid leert
Wanneer de lage lucht er grijs als leisteen is
Wanneer de lage lucht er vaal als keileem is
Wanneer de noordenwind de vlakte vierendeelt
Wanneer de noordenwind er onze adem steelt
Dan kraakt mijn land, mijn vlakke land

Wanneer de Schelde blinkt in zuidelijke zon
En elke Vlaamse vrouw flaneert in zonjapon
Wanneer de eerste spin z'n lentewebben weeft
Of dampende het veld in juli zonlicht beeft
Wanneer de zuidenwind er schatert door het graan
Wanneer de zuidenwind er jubelt langs de baan
Dan juicht mijn land mijn vlakke land

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from Tout Finit Par Des Chansons, released October 5, 2018

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Diana van der Bent Netherlands

Diana is a singer from the Netherlands with a love for musical diversity and a passion for the human voice. She graduated at the conservatory of Utrecht in 2012 in the direction of jazz & pop, but also received extensive classical training during that period. In 2015 she released her debut album containing duets with double bass player Harry Emmery. ... more

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