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Peter van der Werff
maandag 20 april 2015
BOUDY AT THE STYX
Dit heb ik aan buitenlandse vrienden gestuurd:
With the last eight songs if his new album Achter Glas (Behind Glass) he’s shifting to Schubert of the Lowlands: Boudewijn de Groot, best singer-songwriter of the Netherlands. His artistic authenticity can’t conceal any longer his early trauma. The pain that has lived in his system throughout all his seventy years, is truly maturing now and transforms into music and words.
Boudewijn was born in a Japanese camp in Jakarta, Indonesia. Within a year, his mother died in the camp, ‘her body thrown in a hole by the Jap’. All he has are some photos of her, while his father refused to tell him about her.
In three ways I feel close to Boudewijn. We played football at the same fields, his brother Roland was in my school class, Boudy made music with another schoolmate of me, Rob Hoeke, worked with my later neighbor Lucien Duzee and studied at the old Film Academy that borders my present building. But, more than that, Boudewijn and I belongto the same spirited subculture that he represents with his excellent music. And third, we both carry the pain of World War II that has hit our parents so much that all we could do was to internalize it and, as we grow older, finally have it surfaced and express it.
I hope that Boudewijn, like me, once having reached River Styx, finds the ferryman Charon to transport him across the river, and will mobilize his artistic talents to tell us about shores at the other side.
With the last eight songs if his new album Achter Glas (Behind Glass) he’s shifting to Schubert of the Lowlands: Boudewijn de Groot, best singer-songwriter of the Netherlands. His artistic authenticity can’t conceal any longer his early trauma. The pain that has lived in his system throughout all his seventy years, is truly maturing now and transforms into music and words.
Boudewijn was born in a Japanese camp in Jakarta, Indonesia. Within a year, his mother died in the camp, ‘her body thrown in a hole by the Jap’. All he has are some photos of her, while his father refused to tell him about her.
In three ways I feel close to Boudewijn. We played football at the same fields, his brother Roland was in my school class, Boudy made music with another schoolmate of me, Rob Hoeke, worked with my later neighbor Lucien Duzee and studied at the old Film Academy that borders my present building. But, more than that, Boudewijn and I belongto the same spirited subculture that he represents with his excellent music. And third, we both carry the pain of World War II that has hit our parents so much that all we could do was to internalize it and, as we grow older, finally have it surfaced and express it.
I hope that Boudewijn, like me, once having reached River Styx, finds the ferryman Charon to transport him across the river, and will mobilize his artistic talents to tell us about shores at the other side.
Aart Wijnhout
zondag 19 april 2015
Achter Glas
Ik heb net de cd Achter Glas beluisterd, wat weer een geweldig puur Boudewijn de Groot album. Complimenten, hier beleef ik weer heel wat uren plezier van met een lach en een traan.
Caroline
zondag 19 april 2015
De Madammen ook op tv
Misschien leuk om weten: het radioprogramma "De Madammen" is normaal gezien ook op de VRT-tv te bekijken, nl. op Eén.
Marleen
zondag 19 april 2015
Dank u wel
Boudewijn en Anja,
Bedankt voor al het moois wat jullie ons geven. De hele ochtend weer naar de liedjes geluisterd. De L.P. achter glas is 1 groot gedicht. Zo mooi en zo vol emotie. Het gemis van een moeder spreekt eruit en raakt mij in mijn hart. Nogmaals dank.
Bedankt voor al het moois wat jullie ons geven. De hele ochtend weer naar de liedjes geluisterd. De L.P. achter glas is 1 groot gedicht. Zo mooi en zo vol emotie. Het gemis van een moeder spreekt eruit en raakt mij in mijn hart. Nogmaals dank.
Dieter Bruyneel
zondag 19 april 2015
achter glas
Waw...
Wat geniet ik van je nieuwe album "achter glas". Echt prachtig werk. Zeer aangename liedjes die helemaal af zijn. Ik hoop dat we nog veel van je blijven horen. Je bent mijn held!
Wat geniet ik van je nieuwe album "achter glas". Echt prachtig werk. Zeer aangename liedjes die helemaal af zijn. Ik hoop dat we nog veel van je blijven horen. Je bent mijn held!