“You are in every line I have ever read.”
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had
been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
“So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually
committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the
failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
“I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now
complain if you also feel the hurt”
“Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.”
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to
go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and
the world lay spread before me.”
“I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to
turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in
all the glittering multitude.”
“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
credits
from Great Expectations,
released April 1, 2021
all music written & played by Zwerm (Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe & Toon Callier) & Karen Willems and arranged by Zwerm, Karen Willems & Rudy Trouvé
all lyrics by Bruno Nelissen, except No Questions No Lies, lyrics by Charles Dickens
produced by Rudy Trouvé
recorded on tape by Mark Dedecker at Studio Finster, Antwerp, november 2020
mixed by Joris Caluwaerts
artwork by Rudy Trouvé
lay out by Thomas Noppe
mastered by Uwe Teichert
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with the support of the Flemish Government,
in coproduction with STUK - Huis voor Dans, Beeld & Geluid and deSingel
thanks to Cohort & Werkplaats Walter
An exciting, sometimes alienating and always quirky musical discovery you rarely get to hear.
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Goddeau
Obvious contender for album of the year. - The Wire
In an nonacademic way they made a fresh translation of the spirit of the experimental avant-garde. - De Standaard
Zwerm has played
Concerts in the UK, Europe, Iran, Mexico and the USA...more
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