~ Leonard Cohen
(80)Release Date: January 31, 2012
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Product Description
From a master singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen, here are 10 new songs that cave a heart, shake a physique and mangle a bounds as everybody knows usually Leonard can do. A signature of a time, Leonard's baritone binds us like a voices of Hank, Frank and Ray. These are songs that nobody knows and everybody will treasure.
Fans were given a spirit of what to pattern when Cohen finished remarks as a target of a Principe de Asturias Prize for novel in Spain in Oct 2011.
"As we grew older, we accepted that instructions came with this voice. And a instructions were these...Never to lamentation casually. And if one is to demonstrate a good unavoidable better that awaits us all, it contingency be finished within a despotic proportions of grace & beauty."
The manuscript was constructed with Patrick Leonard, Anjani Thomas, Ed Sanders and Dino Soldo. Complementing Cohen's signature baritone on Old Ideas are a well-developed vocalists Dana Glover, Sharon Robinson, The Webb Sisters (Hattie and Charley Webb) and Jennifer Warnes. The album's cover pattern and drawings are Cohen's own.
Track Listing
- Going Home
- Amen
- Show Me The Place
- The Darkness
- Anyhow
- Crazy To Love You
- Come Healing
- Banjo
- Lullaby
- Different Sides
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #11 in Music
- Released on: 2012-01-31
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
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105 of 117 people found a following examination helpful.
One of his best
By Sid Nuncius
This is a truly good Leonard Cohen manuscript in my perspective - something I've not been means to contend for too many years. The strain mostly sounds ethereal yet has a laid behind robustness about it, too, with his heading elementary melodies and a unequivocally acquire sundry sound and style, with elements of country, blues, gospel and rock. There are also a pleasing and informed womanlike subsidy vocals, and some simply pretentious work from a sundry rope - a wail on "Amen," for example, is astonishing and positively spellbinding.
Cohen's voice these days has upheld by a Whisky & Cigarettes theatre and is good on a approach to a Chronic Bronchitis sound, yet he still has that fanciful abyss and inflection underneath a fatigue and a creaks. He hovers between singing and vocalization for many of this manuscript even some-more than previously, yet as a crony once pronounced to me, "No one can sing a Leonard Cohen strain a approach Cohen himself can't." How true. He is miked unequivocally tighten so, quite when listening on headphones, it unequivocally feels as yet he is benefaction and murmur into your ear.
All this is ideal for a songs here, whose lyrics are Cohen during his best: thoughtful, allusive, melancholy, intelligent and infrequently provoking. The eremite imagery he has always used so brilliantly is good in evidence, and it is distinguished how many of it is now privately Christian. Broken relationships, pang and genocide have always been in a dilemma of Cohen's eye whatever he is essay about. They are mostly in plain steer here and are treated with insight, resignation, care and beauty. The aged intelligent wink and his self-deprecatory strain are still there, though, and gleam by what is mostly a unequivocally elegiac atmosphere. He still has that illusory ability somehow to get to a heart of things both when he's vocalization willingly and even when approach definition is elusive. These are songs to take into your heart, maintain and concede to grow there.
I cruise that several of these songs, including Amen, Show Me The Place and Different Sides are expected to turn Cohen classics, yet there is zero to be sanitized and exploited by talent-show winners here and if we don't like Leonard Cohen this manuscript positively won't modify you. However, those legions of us who know that he was innate like this, he had no choice, he was innate with a present of a golden voice will be gay and deeply confident that that voice, both in what he writes and how he performs it, has mislaid nothing of a pretentious lustre.
I suggest his manuscript wholeheartedly. we consider that it competence be a masterpiece
61 of 73 people found a following examination helpful.
DEAR MUSIC APPRECIATORS
By Andrew H. Lee
Dear Music Appreciators,
I come to this manuscript as one who knows small about Leonard Cohen and his music. I've dignified both a Jeff Buckley and Brandi Carlile covers of "Hallelujah," and we remember fondness a Concrete Blonde cover of "Everybody Knows" when it seemed on a PUMP UP THE VOLUME soundtrack. we know Cohen is Canadian and that he is deliberate to be one of a biggest and many successful singer-songwriters of a time. Despite a large times I've examination his name when reading about strain over a years, we only never got around to him. Some of we competence cruise this an unforgivable acknowledgment of low-pitched ignorance, while other Cohen newbies like me can take condolence in a believe that they are not alone.
And now we see Leonard Cohen, seventy-seven years old, sitting in a black suit, black hat, and black sunglasses on his enigmatic, black-shadowed manuscript cover during a tip of a Amazon sales charts and we can't assistance yet cruise "it contingency be time for me to get around to Leonard Cohen..."
Hearing OLD IDEAS has taught me that popping my Cohen cherry so comparatively late in my low-pitched fandom is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing since apparently we have now only skimmed a aspect of a loyal value trove that we can season digging into deeply for a initial time. A abuse since these are treasures that could have been with me all along. we have been blank out until now yet it is time to make adult for mislaid time with Leonard.
I suppose loyal fans of a male will already know all about this album. They will already know that this is another good one and that it's value a time they will put into it. Casuals and newbies who are wondering about what a loyal fans already know can know a following now:
This is a low-pitched manuscript of unusually unblushing communication and grace, encompassing a accumulation of low-pitched styles, and delivered in a gravelly speak-sing baritone. A abounding multiple to be sure, and it all goes down like an acquired ambience - whiskey, or coffee, or...caviar.
At initial listen a many immediately permitted songs seem to be both a initial ("Going Home") and a final ("Different Sides"), and over a march of a 8 marks in between Cohen quietly plays a diversion of "Operation" on a physique of a tellurian condition.
If you're loath during all on this purchase, ask yourself if you're a kind of chairman who competence suffer an manuscript that opens with a thespian articulate about himself in a third person:
"I adore to pronounce with Leonard, he's a diver and a shepherd, he's a idle b _ s t _ _ d vital in a suit..."
Basically, this is strain for intelligent people. And if you're still reading this afterwards possibly you're already a intelligent person, or, after conference this manuscript (like me) you'll be that many closer to apropos one...
Sincerely,
Constant Listener
60 of 72 people found a following examination helpful.
It's Coming For Me Darling
By Lightman
This is from Banjo, one of a songs on LC's good new album, Old Ideas.
It's a damaged banjo bobbing
On a dim filthy sea
It's entrance for me darling
No matter where we go
Its avocation is to mistreat me
My avocation is to know
What's going on here? What is a dim sea filthy with? Why is a banjo broken, menacing? How come it's after a 77 year aged songwriter, vigilant on harming a friendly and self deprecating aged fellow?
We never learn. Perhaps this is a kind thing...
Over a march of his lifetime Cohen's ever some-more gravelly baritone has during times been a voice of a prophet, a muse, a lecher, a lover, a poet, a maniac and oftentimes, a priest. All are represented in Old Ideas, a conspicuous new collection of songs by a master.
This is a starkly existential album. It traces a skinny line along a corner of an abyss. But even as it does so, it binds out a wish of emancipation and a guarantee of replacement - a entrance out of a dark and into a light.
Darkness is one strain we only can't get out of my mind. It's a frozen and sinister twelve bar that's during any impulse prepared to snap. The tragedy is unbelievable:
I held a darkness
It was celebration from your cup
I held a darkness
Drinking from your cup
I said, "Is this contagious?"
You said, "Just splash it up."
Meanwhile Leonard finger picks insistently, Neil Larsen weaves a vivid refrain on a Hammond B3, and when Sharon Robinson and a Webb Sisters flog in with a outspoken of obligatory and hardly calm enterprise it creates a hair mount adult on a behind of your neck.
How about this from Different Sides:
I to my side call a modest and a mild
You to your side call a Word
By trait of pang we explain to have won
You explain to have never been heard
Both of us contend there are laws to obey
But honestly we don't like your tone
You wish to change a approach we make love
I wish to leave it alone
The prolongation of this manuscript is exceptional. The arrangements are gangling and precise, firmly wound, and exquisitely executed by an superb organisation of musicians, several of whom accompanied Cohen on his new epic universe tour.
Another strain we only can't get divided from is Show Me a Place.
Show me a place, assistance me hurl divided a stone
Show me a place, we can't pierce this thing alone
Show me a place where a Word became a man
Show me a place where a pang began
The piano is apart even as it carries with it an abiding unhappiness and pain.
And afterwards Come Healing:
And let a heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come recovering of a spirit
Come recovering of a limb
Behold a gates of mercy
In capricious space
And nothing of us deserving
The cruelty or a grace
O waste of longing
Where adore has been confined
Come recovering of a body
Come recovering of a mind
O, see a dark yielding
That tore a light apart
Come recovering of a reason
Come recovering of a heart
There's no doubt about it. Old Ideas is a masterpiece.
