Leonard Cohen displays an exceptional and paradoxical vital moment, since his talent is booming while her petite figure shrinks more and more, and is the singer of ‘Hallelujah’ birthday Eight decades of life will hold a New Album , and says, with a cigar in his hands.
“I’ll be 80 in a few days and have smoked for 50, I really like smoking” , she has found the musician in a mass meeting in London journalists from 25 countries , eager to hear the words cavernous stained nicotine and smoke that elder witted and mischievous smile still projects and is received with reverential applause.
Will the Monday when Cohen scope as grand anniversary, but do not expect big events. “In my family just celebrated birthdays and even no punishment if someone forgets,” says the musician. “I think I will keep smoking,” he says with a mischievous smile.
Two days later I blow the candles will be released ‘People’ problems’ (Sony Music), the thirteenth album of his career, and that’s cause for celebration, because the listener does not evoke the image of an artist in the twilight of their days.
“We have not reinvented the wheel,” Cohen concedes, yes assumed that “gender is broad palette” with gospel, country and blues wrapped by a chorus of females and a musical presence, his, which is still huge.
The trick is in the fruitful partnership with producer and songwriter Patrick Leonard, among others Madonna collaborator, although Cohen was charmed by his work listening to some pieces made only with the piano.
It is well known that Canada usually take time, which accurately models the songs craftsman (“the poems are not finished, they are abandoned, and that also goes with the music,” argues), but “People problems” published just two years after its predecessor, “Old Ideas” (2014).
Cohen attributes this to his “chemistry” with Leonard and heralds who are already working on a new album, which is invoiced so quickly, it would be the third party in a really short space of time, especially for someone that no longer has anything to prove.
“You look much younger now than 10 years ago,” said he in fact Gordon Campbell, High Commissioner of Canada in the UK and responsible for presenting his compatriot.
Love, heartbreak, conflict, religion, unity … There are the issues that has always developed in his work and, as the title of this new release, we touch everyone. “It reflects the world in which we live, the atmosphere,” he says, before joking that the next album was titled “Unpopular solutions”.
In his remarks to reporters, shows nothing like that character given moderate extremism describing those who have known all your life, calm, transcendent, but not too eager to draw attention.
“I’ve tried setting along the years a political position that no one could decipher,” he says again faced rascal.
Canadian and Jewish Montreal (traditionally divided between Anglo and Francophone city) costs not ask for the meaning they have for him matters as the Scottish referendum to be held tomorrow at the country hosting this presentation or consultation Catalan Spain.
“I do not feel I can take sides.’m Assuming everyone works with the best intentions, I see nothing sinister one side or another. People try to make their lives have meaning and sometimes think way is through politics. Anyway, I recognize the struggle of people give meaning to their existence and that deserves respect, “he says.
From his life experience, which has helped him to get up several times for depression and sense of defeat, it is essential to recognize that “everyone suffers and everyone strives to be somebody.”
“You have to understand that your struggle is like any other and fight your suffering too, and I think it will reach political solutions until they get that idea,” he says.
Poet, novelist and songwriter , Cohen is considered a world authority on the music, though not published his first album until age 33, ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen’ (1967), to be followed by others as’ Songs of Love and Hate (1971), ‘Various positions’ (1984) and’ I’m Your Man ‘(1988), to name a few.
also his literary output is wide, especially poetry, beginning with the seminal ‘Let Us Compare Mythologies’ (1956) to his latest work to date, ‘Book of Longing’, published in 2006, a few years before receiving the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.
Do you feel as an institution? “In any case, as a mental institution,” says the musician.
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