LEONARD COHEN IS BACK: Old Ideas (1st Track Available)
Tags: Published On: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011Comments: 4
“SHOW ME THE PLACE, I CAN’T MOVE THIS THING ALONE”
You might be tired of reading his name in almost every story I write. But the day has finally arrived (eight years waiting for your man are way too many – we’ve been alone too long, let’s be alone together): Leonard Cohen‘s new album, Old Ideas, will be released on January 31st, 2012.
Below you will find the first track available, Show Me The Place;
Follow my instructions: click the ‘Play’ button, and ONLY then start to read my words.
Now, the song should be playing in the darkness of your bedroom, or in the candlelight winter chill of your terrace, let it go, let it in…
Leonard’s voice is sweet and still in pain; it’s constantly struggling, and it’s the most erotic and penetrating in that Tower of Song it has been paying the rent in for more than 50 years.
His last album, Ten New Songs (2001) was absolutely beautiful, but I was hoping for a step back in time (and style) for Old Ideas. And of course he did not disappoint my expectations.
Something seems to have changed with this work; it’s the end of the movie, the final scene; she is walking away in tears and he walks back home alone in a rainy New York. He knows that it was the only possible way to go.
What really seems to have changed here, is Cohen’s silent statement. For he is now living with it, not wrestling anymore, not crying, but simply taking what he can out of it, poetry.
That’s how it goes. Everybody knows.
Cohen’s voice is baritonal, and it warmly whispers in your ear while sensually touched by a funereal violin and by the hypnotic calling of a female moan, a Manhattan siren of a contemporary Homer’s Odyssey.
He is finally back. And I’m vulnerable again, naked in his arms.
With a mix of Tom Waits and Nick Cave – lyrical genius with a dark side – I hold a different personality and dream with each and every song that melts in my mind. Ian Morris (UK)
I would have said Tom Waits and you sang it in your lyrics.
We all love to be hugged from a wise sound of a poetic menestrel.
This was a good surprise and if you don’t mind I stick it in my heart.
love
mari
Thank you Mari!
beautiful
With a mix of Tom Waits and Nick Cave – lyrical genius with a dark side – I hold a different personality and dream with each and every song that melts in my mind. Ian Morris (UK)