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After two successful records with Flemish hip-hop promise 't Hof van Commerce, Flip Kowlier decided to release a solo album. The result is 'Ocharme Ik', a sober, but warm and intense epos of Kowlier's. It's sad that even a dozen close listens to 'Ocharme Ik' only reveal a hint of Kowlier's lyrics. It's the case that Kowlier sings in West-Flemish, which, according to people, is a dialect of Flemish. Being an "ethnic" Dutchman, thereby sharing one dictionary with the Flemish, I sincerely doubt the claim that the Flemish and the Dutch share a single language. This is not a dialect - this is another language. I'm not kidding. I worked a while for a Belgian company, and they hardly ever surprised me with words that I had never heard before (They surprised me with other things like beer during a lunch break from work at noon.), but this language is new to me (Now I finally understand why every episode of Belgian TV master Paul Jambers is always subtitled on Dutch television.). This makes it even more surprising that the Flemish always beat us at the TV game 'Tien voor taal', since for many Flemish the language skills tested in this TV game are very remote from Kowlier's. Am I saying that I can't appreciate 'Ocharme Ik' due to the simple fact that I can't understand the lyrics? No, that's not what I'm saying. But be honest: How many records have you got that are in a language that you understand nothing of? I have one record that is partly Bulgarian and partly Yiddish, and I have two or three Spanish records. Still, 'Ocharme Ik' is a nice record, not a masterpiece or the work of a genius, but a very enjoyable record by a singer-songwriter without the ambition to capture the world. The title song is a beautiful piece of vulnerability and discrete arrangements. Most of the other songs are alike, just slightly less beautiful. The exception is 'Slichte Mins', in which Kowlier writes that people see him as a sell-out, a softy, a betrayer of the underground movement. Kowlier's answer: "Ik peize dak smuorlam benne / doar it et mee te maken / ik goa kist an u bille vrivven / voer u ton finaal te kraeken / kus ze kus ze kus ze / ge kunt ze ollemolle kussen."
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/flip-kowlier/ocharme-ik/899/
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