Les voisins magnifiques therefore present the works of the two neighbors in a 5CD box set addressing the themes dear to their authors: love, friendship, injustice, the passing of time, and death. Each CD begins with excerpts from interviews that illustrate the positions of the two artists. The neighbors’ songs intertwine in order to recreate this discussion, this imaginary dialogue they might have had on these subjects. Did you know that Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel were neighbors on the same floor? Their two apartments were on the twelfth floor of 5-19 rue Émile-Dubois in Paris - Brel in staircase G and Brassens in staircase D. One cannot help but dream endlessly of these two magnificent neighbors crossing paths in the hallway, dropping by on the spur of the moment to listen to songs in progress, sharing a plateful of pasta, quietly laughing at the bloopers of the hit parade. So even when they seem divergent, their sensibility sometimes brings them closer together and their works sail in similar waters. Brassens maintains that there are only five song themes: love, friendship, injustice, the passing of time, and death. The interpretive framework is not very different for Jacques Brel, who shares with his friend a conviction that no song is worth writing if it says nothing. Their works walk the same paths, even if they do not paint the landscape with the same pen.
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