A theatrical concert. A narrator first tells — in the language of the room — who the song was written for. Then it is sung, in French. Context changes everything.
— Live
Two excerpts.
'Jojo' — Jacques Brel · Live excerpt
'Dis, quand reviendras-tu ?' — Barbara · Live excerpt
— The repertoire
Card by card.
N° 01
Voir un ami pleurer
Jacques Brel · 1977
Brel, stripped bare, as he reached us. The first card on record.
N° 02
The full EP
Six cards · voice & guitar
The first six postcards, recorded as a duo: one voice, one guitar.
— Gallery
On stage — Verhalenhuis, Haarlem
— The artists
Hervé — the voice that tells.
Born near Lyon, in the Netherlands since 2019. It is there, far from his language, that he returns to French chanson — first in the intimacy of house concerts.
No imitation: not Brel, not Barbara, not Aznavour — his own voice, filtered through his own life. The songs stay in French; the emotion needs no translation.
Richard Marsden — the weaving hand.
Originally from Saddleworth in the north of England, in the Netherlands since 1976, Richard has played guitar since the age of ten — from teenage rock bands to folk-oriented groups, with Ralph McTell, Richard Thompson and Declan Sinnott as references.
He draws the space where the voice can settle, where silence has a right to exist. All his virtuosity in service of the story.
