London .- Leonard Cohen exhibits exceptional and paradoxical vital moment, since his talent is booming while her petite figure shrinks more and more, and the interpreter “Hallelujah” is eight decades of life celebrated with 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”, noted musician at a mass meeting in London with 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.
It will be available Sunday when Cohen 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 after I blow the candles will be released “People problems” (Sony Music), the disc number thirteen of his career, and that it is also cause for celebration, because your listener does not evoke the image of an artist in the twilight of their days.
“We have not reinvented the wheel,” concedes Cohen, yes boasts the “Palette genres is wide “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 composer Patrick Leonard, partner, among others Madonna, although Cohen was charmed by his work listening to some made pieces only with piano.
It is well known that Canada usually take time, which models the songs with precision 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 who no longer has nothing 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, is shown as the moderate character anything given to extremes that describe 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 could decipher “he says again faced rascal.
Jewish Canadian and Montreal (traditionally divided between Anglo and Francophone city) costs not ask for the meaning they have for him matters as the Scottish referendum will be held tomorrow in the country that hosts this presentation or as the Catalan query in Spain.
“I do not feel I can take sides.’m assuming everyone works with the best intentions, I see nothing sinister side or another. People try to make their lives have meaning and sometimes think that the way is through politics. In any case, I recognize the struggle of the 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 come to no political solutions while we get that idea, “he says.
Poet, novelist and songwriter, Cohen is considered a world authority on the music, though not published its 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” , he 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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