A timeless and powerful repertoire celebrating the ultimate triumph of the Human Spirit:
- If we only have love
- Then we’ll only be men
- And we’ll drink from the Grail
- To be born once again
- Then with nothing at all
- But the little we are
- We’ll have conquered all time
- All space, the sun and the stars

Brel’s French and sometimes Flamish language songs of pathos, raw energy talk with staggering honesty about the human heart and the ways tragedy and comedy curiously mix within our everyday lives. Brel draws upon our greatest hopes and fears in constructing his sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always haunting songs of love and loss.

Most of all, people find themselves through Brel’s songs : “They tap in such a depth of life experience that people can find facets of their own personality and history in an image or a turn of phrase. Only a few songwriters, no matter how catchy their hooks, can speak so directly to their listeners. Collectively, the songs of Jacques Brel make a ringing call to live life to the fullest.” says reviewer Curt Holman.

“Brel’s songs speak of both his rebellious, drifter spirit, buffeted by intense sensations in the stinking shadows of the cities, and the broader, reflective wisdom of the mature artist who could get some distance – witty, self-mocking or melancholy – on the rage and hurt of disappointed love and politics.
In the clash of this reflective quality – the infusion of irony or an odd, tolerant patience with life – with the raw intensity of his often bitter, wounded observations that gives Brel his particular tone, his cynical pose with a catch in the throat, his tenderness that cannot look hope full in the eyes.”
Micheal Evenden

The list of performers who have recorded Brel's songs is amazingly broad, with rock, pop, jazz, and country artists, including David Bowie (“Amsterdam” and “My Death”), The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (“Next”), Judy Collins (“Marieke”), Frank Sinatra (“I'm Not Afraid”), Dionne Warwick (“If We Only Have Love”), Terry Jacks (“Seasons in the Sun” - 1973 n°1 in U.S. and U.K. - and “If You Go Away”), Karen Akers, Shirley Bassey, Boccelli, Acker Bilk, Ray Bryant, Glen Campbell, Ray Charles, Ray Conniff, John Denver, Marlene Dietrich (“Bitte Geh Nicht Fort”), The Divine Comedy, Celine Dion, the Fortunes, Robyn Hitchcock, Shirley Horn, Julio Iglesias, Tom Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Brenda Lee, Ute Lemper, Vera Lynn, Al Martino, Paul Mauriat, Helen Merrill, Ronnie Milsap, Nirvana, Nana Mouskouri, Olivia Newton-John, Freda Payne, Pearls Before Swine, Mitch Ryder, the Seekers, Nina Simone (“Ne Me Quitte pas”), Dusty Springfield, Bobby Vinton, Scott Walker, Andy Williams, Nancy Wilson, West Life…