Bob Dylan, who can write a song on a neighborhood, once asked Leonard Cohen how long he was about to write ’Hallelujah’. Cohen replied ’two years’. He used the supposedly five.
The canadian poet was notoriously slow, but he was vastly productive in his career this winter.
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In the four years up to cohen’s death in 2016, he released three albums. Afskedspladen, ‘You Want It Darker’, was also superb, and there is certainly more where it came from.
’Thanks for the Dance’ contains sketches from the legend’s last session. They are respectfully completed by his son, Adam Cohen, with the help of, among others, Beck, Daniel Lanois and Feist, as well as the champion’s longtime collaborators Javier Mas, Jennifer Potro and Sharon Robinson.
the Result is amazingly solid and quality, although the playing time of just 29 minutes indicates that the coffer, enough is scraped clean of the detritus.
cohen’s gravkammerrøst is set beautifully in the scene in a production that is true to his lingering sound, but it is the songs, which guarantees icon another in a dignified manner.
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the Man’s driving, the romance is intact. In erotic dripping ’The Night of Santiago’, it is especially a pleasure to experience how incomparable libidoen still make music with Cohen, after he had rounded the 80’s and could see the end of it all.
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almost 40 years earlier, he called the album ‘Death of a Ladies’ Man’, and kvindebedåreren look death in the face with the lucidity on the obsessional ’The Goal’ and ’The Hills’.
the Poet was breathtaking, generous and noble to the last. Hallelujah for the Cohen.
the Cover to the ‘Thanks for the Dance’, which is Leonard cohen’s 15. studio album in an approximately 50 year long career.
