Format | Audio CD |
Ordering Number | DM492502 |
Barcode | 8424295049254 |
label | Discmedi |
Release date | 02/12/2011 |
salesrank | 1537 |
Leonard Cohen, en boca de… (Leonard Cohen by ...)(Discmedi, 2011) is a
compilation album of versions that meets the most significant songs of the work of Canadian
singer-poet par excellence (recently awarded with Prince of Asturias Award for Letters) -
Suzanne, Bird on the Wire, The Partisan, Hallelujah, First We Take Manhattan, A
Thousand Kisses Deep - selected by the biographer and translator of Leonard Cohen’s work
in Spain, Alberto Manzano.
Performed by a cast of musicians of international stature like Nick Cave, Suzanne Vega,
kd lang, Lambchop, 16 Horsepower or the former leader of the Modern Lovers,
Jonathan Richman - also includes a number of artists related to Cohen through a
personal or family relationship -her son, Adam Cohen, his current girlfriend, singer
Anjani Thomas, his loyal backup singer, Perla Batalla, his friend from the time of the
Velvet Underground & Nico, Jackson Browne, the jazz composer Lewis Furey – that
recorded in collaboration with the Canadian bard the opera-rock Night Magic (1986), in
which he plays exclusively for this record a new version of the blues Fire (with lyrics belong
to a poem published in the book Parasites of Heaven), or the French singer and actress
Carole Laure - Lewis Furey’s wife – with a cover of Hunter´s lullaby which is rescued from
the same opera-rock.
Finally, the techno-pop singer pat mAcdonald - former Timbuck 3 - recorded specifically
for this album an acoustic version of sublime First We Take Manhattan, while Elliott
Murphy seduces us with a sweeping country version of Diamonds in the Mine. Santiago
Auserón y Christina Rosenvinge - accompanied by the New York band Sonic Youth -
are the Spanish contribution to this tribute, but interpreted respectively, also in English, the
pieces You know who I am and Seems so long ago, Nancy, both included in the Cohen
masterful album “Songs from a Room”.
In short, an essential album to know the work of Leonard Cohen "in voice of" some of the
most influential musicians of rock history.
CD 1- 1.Lewis Furey: Fire
- 2.Carole Laure: Hunter´s lullaby
- 3.Jonathan Richman: Here it is
- 4.Lambchop: Chelsea Hotel
- 5.pat mAcdonald: First we take Manhattan
- 6.Jackson Browne: A thousand kisses deep
- 7.Perla Batalla: Suzanne
- 8.Elliott Murphy: Diamonds in the mine
- 9.Anjani Thomas: Thanks for the dance
- 10.Adam Cohen: Bird on the wire
- 11.Santiago Auserón: You know who I am
- 12.Suzanne Vega: Story of Isaac
- 13.16 Horsepower: The partisan
- 14.Nick Cave: Avalanche
- 15.Christina Rosenvinge: Seems so long ago, Nancy
- 16.kd lang: Hallelujah