Leonard Cohen meets this Sunday 80 years on this planet. It does still have many things to say, as evidenced by the fact celebrate the anniversary with the release of a new album, People’s problems, which goes on sale three days later. Nine songs that prolong the glorious rebirth of Canadian troubadour since 2008 decided to return to performing live and reliving his commitment to music with the release of Old Ideas (2012).
Popular maintains the same balance problems the previous (and acclaimed) album Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011: first, fidelity to the style and recognizable features; the other, eclecticism and the attempt to cover as much as possible in a single job.
“slowed the song. I never liked fast. You want to get there soon, I want to be the last. Not because it is old, it’s not for the life I have led. I always liked slowly. ” Slow and Cohen recites the cut that opens the album, and he defends his approach to music, while applied himself coheniano subtle humor. With superior to that of Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney seniority, to name two other icons of popular music, Cohen speaks here of the passing of time and the approach of death, but also of the other recurring themes in his songs- history, religion, the pain that we infringe human, passionate love, the future …
In the sonorous, Cohen still sounds like blues and black music, especially in the ubiquitous femeninos- choirs, but also synthesizers that marked the production of the 80 Arabs and Indians are also echoes Nevermind to speak of eternal war, and remote percussive cadences in Western European canon Almost like the blues, where another of his great moves phrases , speaking of the burden would be placed in his old age. “Is torture is murder and are all my bad reviews”
Cohen today introduced the new album in London. Elusive as it relates to their public presence, musician and poet will perform about the messages that underlie Samson in New Orleans (a cut inspired by Katrina Tour) or Born in chains, in which the narrative of the Torah (specifically, the Book of Exodus) with Buddhist teachings are intertwined. Cohen certainly dodge questions about the embezzlement suffered at the hands of his manager while he was on retreat at a Zen monastery. A fact that, ultimately, ended by forcing Cohen to return to the stage and recover lost money. Too prosaic explanation for concerts three hours that the author of So Long, Marianne First we take Manhattan offered during their last tour.
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