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EPISODE BELGOBELGE
This week Le Sound goes all in on Belgium.
One country, fourteen songs, and a whole lot of personality.
We open with a Dutchman singing in French about a tiny absurdist king: Dick Annegarn's "Ubu," based on Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi.
Then Jacques Brel, but not the Brel you know. Instead of "Ne me quitte pas" we play "Mon père disait," all coastline and North wind and the last line about London being nothing but a suburb of Brussels lost at sea. Arno takes us to Ostend with "Oostende bonsoir," the seaside town where he became close friends with Marvin Gaye while Gaye recorded "Sexual Healing" there in 1982.
Then a Go Belgium block: Bob Doug's "Bleu Blanc Belge," a cheeky nod to a Belgian cattle breed, and "Kiss The Grass," Roméo Elvis and Sylvie Kreusch's official anthem for Belgium's World Cup run.
Roméo Elvis returns with "La Belgique Afrique," a reflection on Belgium's colonial past. Lubiana's "La Blanche" sits alongside it, on growing up mixed race and never quite fitting either box. And Baloji reworks "Indépendance Cha Cha," the song that soundtracked Congo's independence negotiations in Brussels in 1960 and helped birth Congolese rumba.
At the end, three love letters to Brussels: Angèle's homesick "Bruxelles je t'aime," Ana Diaz's "BX," a declaration she'll never leave, and Scylla's "BX Vice," all shadowy streets and street-level poetry.
We finish in Liège with Le Dé's "Liège, Liège," torn between love and frustration for his hometown.