Eefje de Visser: Trein
Eefje de Visser is going to play in Melkweg on the 8th of October. That reminds me of the funny correspondence I had with the radio station, Radio1 to figure out what the name of the singer was. I had to be insistent, but finally I got the answer. People say that Dutch songs are somewhat strange to listen to. I tended to agree with this statement. But when I first heard this girl singing I thought she made the impossible: she transformed this harsh West Germanic language into the ethereal flow of emotions. Her music feels soft, peaceful, fragile, meaningful, honest. As if all the suppressed gentle feelings of the Dutch nation would come to the surface in her songs. I wish it happened more often. “There was a train, that drove me away, drove me away / And when it halted, we a woke on our own, bewildered and alienated, but alone, alone, alone / … / Because no one leaves me / because no one understands / no one lets me go / but I am constantly traveling / because you have not shaken me aw