During the Noorderslag festival in 2014, a selection of Dutch artists performed the songs of Boudewijn de Groot. It shows the influence De Groot had on the Dutch-speaking artists after him. A year later De Groot released a new album and the announcement that he no longer feels like playing old hits during his concerts. And rightly so, because the songs that De Groot recorded for Achter Glas are in
… no way inferior to his old successes. De Groot wrote all the lyrics himself and, at the age of seventy, is more personal than ever. In the title track and Ik Ben Een Zoon he sings about his earliest years of life in the Dutch East Indies, where his mother died in a Japanese internment camp. The tone on Achter Glas is intimate and melancholic, although De Groot also turns out heavier and more electric in a number of songs. The impressive Achter Glas proves that Boudewijn de Groot is far from finished. (PdK)more