Guido Belcanto - Pavilion of Human Drifts

On a hot day last summer, Guido Belcanto drove his silver Cadillac to Brussels. His destination: the Jubelpark. There he stood in a pavilion in front of the gigantic relief ‘De Menselijke Driften’ by Jef Lambeaux. Among the bodies in stone, he also recognized himself. The busker who moved from café to café with songs by, among others, the Zangeres Zonder Naam. The man who later sang about his own lusts, without shame. And also the dark sides of others – with much compassion, but not without humor. Back home, he took pen and guitar in hand and wrote with a sinister smile on his lips: ‘Life is a harsh horror … We are all in the same boat: everyone, rich or poor, we are going to die’. In anticipation of that, there is the Emperor of the Life Song, comforting and imperturbable, to make everything right. Soon the silver Cadillac will zoom over Belgian and Dutch roads again. In its trunk is his brand-new record, ‘Het Paviljoen der Menselijke Driften’. In addition, old hits, a few murder ballads, and his versions of songs by Loudon Wainwright III, David McWilliams, and the Zangeres Zonder Naam will also be covered. Guido was given access to her original recordings by the family of her discoverer Johnny Hoes.