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Cohen's Age of Reason
COVER June 2006 COHEN'S AGE OF REASON At 71, this revered Canadian artist is back in the spotlight with a new book of poetry, a CD and concert tour – and a new appreciation for the gift of growing older | by Christine Langlois hen I mention that I will be in- Senior statesman of song is just the latest of many in- terviewing Leonard Cohen at his home in Montreal, female carnations for Cohen, who brought out his first book of po- friends – even a few younger than 50 – gasp. Some offer to etry while still a student at McGill University and, in the Wcome along to carry my nonexistent briefcase. My 23- heady burst of Canada Council-fuelled culture of the early year-old son, on the other hand, teases me by growling out ’60s, became an acclaimed poet and novelist before turning “Closing Time” around the house for days. But he’s inter- to songwriting. Published in 1963, his first novel, The ested enough in Cohen’s songs to advise me on which ones Favourite Game, is a semi-autobiographical tale of a young have been covered recently. Jewish poet coming of age in 1950s Montreal. His second, The interest is somewhat astonishing given that Leonard the sexually graphic Beautiful Losers, published in 1966, has Cohen is now 71. He was born a year before Elvis and in- been called the country’s first post-modern novel (and, at troduced us to “Suzanne” and her perfect body back in 1968. the time, by Toronto critic Robert Fulford, “the most re- For 40 years, he has provided a melancholy – and often mor- volting novel ever published in Canada”). -
Anjani Anjani
ajani 3/13/06 11:16 AM Page 1 File Under Street Date Suggested List Price Alternative, Jazz 5/23/06 $12.98 ANJANI BLUE ALERTALERT Producedby 8 2876-82883-2 0 Selections Leonard Cohen “Blue Alert” “Innermost Door” “The Golden Gate” “The Perfect World” “Nightingale” “No One After You” “Never Got to Love You” “The Mist” “Crazy to Love You” 82876828832 “Thanks for the Dance” *cover art is not final SELLING POINTS • Highly anticipated major label debut for the Hawaiian singer-songwriter and keyboardist • Blue Alert is a collection of 10 brand new love songs written and produced by the legendary Leonard Cohen • Over 20 million Leonard Cohen albums sold worldwide • National publicity campaign targeting upscale publications and national television • Videos for “Thanks for the Dance” and “The Mist” • National advertising, lifestyle and online marketing campaigns underway About Ajani Anjani Thomas trained in guitar, piano and voice in her In 2000, Anjani released a self-titled CD with jazz, folk and hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii. She attended Berklee island influences, including a duet with famed Hawaiian College of Music for a year before moving to Manhattan, musician Henry Kapono. The Sacred Names project where she further honed her musicianship in jazz clubs. followed—an inspirational meditation on the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek names of God. An auspicious meeting with producer John Lissauer resulted in her engagement as a background vocalist on Leonard As an established artist much praised by critics and other Cohen’s seminal song, Hallelujah. That led to a stint as musicians, Anjani took a stylistic leap of faith in 2005, Cohen’s keyboardist on the 1985 Various Positions World when Leonard Cohen suggested a different approach. -
July-August 295-WEB
jazz now in our 33rd year &blues report www.jazz-blues.com July-August 2007 Issue 295 Free MUDDY WATERS, JOHNNY WINTER & JAMES COTTON Bob Margolin Talks About the Rescued Live Recordings MUDDY WATERS, JOHNNY WINTER Published by Martin Wahl Communications & JAMES COTTON Editor & Founder Bill Wahl Duane Verh Talks With Bob Margolin About the Recordings From the 1977 Live Tour Layout & Design Bill Wahl That Were ‘Rescued From the Dumpster’ Operations Jim Martin Pilar Martin Contributors Michael Braxton, Mark Cole, Kelly Ferjutz, Dewey Forward, Chris Hovan, Nancy Ann Lee, Peanuts, Wanda Simpson, Mark Smith, Dave Sunde, Duane Verh, Emily Wahl and Ron Weinstock. Check out our costantly updated website. Now you can search for CD Reviews by artists, titles, record labels, keyword or JBR Writers. 15 years of reviews are up and we’ll be going all the way back to 1974. Address all Correspondence to.... Jazz & Blues Report 19885 Detroit Road # 320 Rocky River, Ohio 44116 Bob Margolin & Muddy Waters Photo: Watt Casey Jr. Main Office ...... 216.651.0626 Editor's Desk ... 440.331.1930 By Duane Verh Comments...billwahl@ jazz-blues.com In 1976, blues legend Muddy Waters parted ways with the legendary Chess Web .................. www.jazz-blues.com Records label which, by that time, had only its name in common with the Copyright © 2007 Martin-Wahl Communications Inc. company’s founders. He then hooked up with blues/rock guitar idol Johhny No portion of this publication may be Winter who produced Muddy’s first release for the CBS-distributed Blue Sky reproduced without written permission label. -
Leonard Cohen I
Leonard Cohen I BYAMTHOKY D e CURTIS always experience myself as falling apart, been assured by this one-alone. However, the two and I’m taking emergency measures,” Leon- extraordinary albums that followed, Songs From a ard Cohen said fifteen years ago. “It’s coming Room (1969), which includes his classic song “Bird on apart at every moment. I try Prozac. I try love. a W ire,” and Songs of Love and Hate (1971), provided I try drugs. I try Zen meditation. I try the whatever proof anyone may have required that the monastery.I I try forgetting about all those strategies greatness of his debut was not a fluke. and going straight. And the place where the evaluation Part of the reason why Cohen’s early work revealed happens is where I write the songs, such a high degree of achieve when I get to that place where I For four decades, ment is that he was an accom can’t be dishonest about what I’ve plished literary figure before he been doing.” Cohen has been a m odel ever began to record. His collec For four decades, Cohen has ofgut'wrenching tions of poetry, including Let Us been a model of gut-wrenching emotional honesty Compare Mythologies (1956) and emotional honesty. He is, with Flowers for Hitler (1964), and his out question, one of the most novels, including Beautiful Losers important and influential songwriters of our time, (1966), had already brought him considerable recogni a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths tion in his native Canada. -
Kelley-Lynch-S-Conversation-With
Kelley’s Conversation w/ Steven Machat February 13, 2011 Steven confirmed that he visited with Cohen in 2007 regarding the film “Bird On A Wire.” When he went to see Cohen he wanted to discuss Buddhism. Steven was living with Semina who was Muslim. Cohen refused to discuss Buddhism and noted that he was now Jewish. “He introduced me to his groundskeeper” – Robert Kory. “He had Robert Kory in the background taping me.” “Leonard Cohen was so scared.” – he said “I found your film, Bird On A Wire.” He said “I have had it since 1990.” The reason Cohen gave for keeping this film rather than returning it to Steven Machat was “to keep it away from Avril.” [Avril Giacobbi] At this point Kory apparently begins coughing. The film is not given to Steven at this point in time. from [email protected] reply-to [email protected] to Kelley Lynch <[email protected]> date Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:59 PM hide details 2:59 PM Re: Notice of Violations of Permanent Restraining (37 minutes ago) subject Order - Cease and Desist mailed-by gmail.com signed-by gmail.com Kelly, the one problem is kory. I did not know him in 07 and only when I met in 09 did I put 2 n 2 together and figure he was the handyman. Just my thoughts. Will go over the rest again later. Be safe. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from Steven Machat <[email protected]> to Kelley Lynch <[email protected]> date Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM subject Re: not sure if it was kory but i believe it was he.same size as the man i meet two years later telling me he was kory here in london. -
Leonard Cohen, Find Me, I Am Almost Thirty Always Full, It’S We Who Go Into a Lull
LEONARD COHEN, 106 FIND ME, I AM ALMOST THIRTY Amit Ranjan Some verses touch hearts Some touch other parts. Someone said to me That old man burns a hole Right inside your soul. He drags your pain out of your heart And then draws an anatomical chart Dissects you for fun And some lazy pun The old surgeon is so ruthless He leaves no scar He should have been dead Or at least toothless But look he’s laughing at the bar. Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Leonard Cohen. ister Cohen also has a sister Cohen: Esther Cohen. She passed away last year. I recently realized this, that she had passed away, and that Mthe writer Esther Cohen who’s very much around, is not the sister Cohen. I would have known this had I been a true Cohen fan, actively following the threads on the Leonard Cohen Forum. But I’m not. I am a lazy listener who listens to his songs, and tries indolently to write songs like him. I even wrote lazy emails to Ed Sanders, his manager, who lazily wrote back to me that he will try to show my poems to Leonard. Leonard never lazily read my poetry, or if he did, he never lazily wrote back to me. I have all the time to keep on writing, and I am sure he has all the time to know about the would-be Indian poet and indulge him a little. Time is The Equator Line | 107 Leonard Cohen, Find Me, I am almost Thirty always full, it’s we who go into a lull. -
The Nature of Love in the Work of Leonard Cohen What Is Love
The Nature of Love in the Work of Leonard Cohen By Jiří Měsíc Published online: October 2018 http://www.jprstudies.org Abstract: This essay deals with the nature of love in the work of Leonard Cohen and its relation to Kabbalah, Zen Buddhism, Christian mysticism, and the alchemical wedding coniunctio oppositorum. Love is seen as pulsating between agape, the unconditional love of G-d and humanity, and eros, the insatiable desire for bodily pleasures. In both senses, it has certain accompanying attributes, according to the singer, explained by the words “chain,” “bond,” “wound,” and “suffering.” The literary persona of Leonard Cohen is viewed as longing for divine love, exploring prayer, solitude, and carnal love as a means of spiritual nourishment leading to the purification of the soul. Moreover, his work is characterised by a liturgical language, which he uses in order to glorify the most profane features of our human nature and to highlight the potential of the body to serve as an instrument to reach the sacred. About the Author: Jiří Měsíc (*1985), holds a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. His main interest are the mystical branches of Abrahamic religions (Christian mysticism, Kabbalah, Sufism) and their echoes in popular literature and song, especially in the work of the contemporary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. Besides this, he is a published poet and translator of John Pass, Ariana Reines and Gertrude Stein into Czech. Keywords: Christianity, Judaism, Kabbalah, Leonard Cohen, love, mysticism, religion, song, Sufism What is love according to Leonard Cohen? “It is in love that we are made; / In love we disappear,” Leonard Cohen sings after having been abandoned by the “Crown of Light, O Darkened One” with whom he experienced a momentary union (“Boogie Street”). -
Philip Glass Leonard Cohen, 7-8-2007
PhilipGlass recycles Leonard Cohen'spoetry atlincoln Center BY MICHAEL G,TLTZ, omposerPhilip Glassis performing a concertpiece built around the poems of Leonard Cohenat Lincoln Center next Saturdayand Sunday.Cohen, the acclaimedCanadianpoet and singe4 has a prior commitment and won't be able to attend l'Book of Longing," named afterhis best-selling 2006collection of poems. But evenif he were free, Glasssays he wouldn't have a clue as to whether Cohenwould show up or not. The show will incorporate musicians (including Glass),four singers, and Cohen'sartwork, along with taped recordingsof Co- hen reading his poetry.But Cohenhimself won't pedorm. That mysteriousaura has been a constantin the rela- piece,a style Cohenhas dubbed"Glassic." "He's at awonderful place in his life where he does tionship betweenthe two for almost 25 years.In 1984, It's a good moment for Cohen, who's recovering whatever he damn well feels like," saysGlass fondly Glassset a poem of Cohen'sto music as part of Que- fromrm financial mismanagement that reportedlyreportedlv left him about Cohen."He doesn't do anything - as far as I can bec's 3S0th-anniversaryeelebration. He sent it off to get nearly bankrupt, despitea world-renowned music cata- tell - to pleasepeople. He doesthings to pleasehimself." permission,and the permissioncame ... but not a word logue. His prot6g6 and partner Anjani Thomasreleased It's not selfishnesson Cohen'spart, just a realization from Cohenhimself. Did he like it? Did he hate it?'Did her collaborationwith Cohen,"Blue Light," last year. at age 72 and a lifetime of acclaim that he should focus he evenheor it? Glasssimply didn't know. -
Book of Longing
Book of Longing Leonard Cohen Penguin UK (2006) Rating: ★★★★☆ Tags: Canadian Poetry, American, Literary Criticism, Poetry, General Canadian Poetryttt Americanttt Literary Criticismttt Poetryttt Generalttt Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Book of Longing contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen’s artistry with language worldwide recognition.From the Hardcover edition. PENGUIN BOOKS BOOK OF LONGING LEONARD COHEN Book of Longing PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England www.penguin.com First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. -
Leonard Cohen the Modern Troubadour
PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY, OLOMOUC FACULTY OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES LEONARD COHEN THE MODERN TROUBADOUR DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Author: Mgr. Jiří Měsíc Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Josef Jařab, CSc. 2016 UNIVERZITA PALACKÉHO V OLOMOUCI FILOZOFICKÁ FAKULTA KATEDRA ANGLISTIKY A AMERIKANISTIKY LEONARD COHEN MODERNÍ TRUBADÚR DIZERTAČNÍ PRÁCE Autor práce: Mgr. Jiří Měsíc Vedoucí práce: Prof. PhDr. Josef Jařab, CSc. 2016 The research and publication of this work have been made possible thanks to the direct support of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic for specific-purpose university research in the year 2015 at Palacký University Olomouc and thanks to the Institut français of Prague and the French Embassy in Prague which enabled the author to undertake two research stays at the University Paul-Valéry in Montpellier in 2014 and 2015. Zpracování této dizertační práce bylo umožněno díky účelové podpoře na specifický vysokoškolský výzkum udělené roku 2015 Univerzitě Palackého v Olomouci Ministerstvem školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy ČR a díky Francouzskému institutu a Francouzskému velvyslanectví v Praze, které autorovi umožnilo dva výzkumné pobyty na Univerzitě Paul-Valéry v Montpellier v letech 2014 a 2015. ABSTRACT This dissertation thesis arose from thinking about literary tradition as described by the Anglo-American modernists Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. In their view, the tradition of European love-lyrics crystallised in the work of the medieval Occitan troubadours who were influenced by the cultural and political milieu of the contemporary Occitanie and whose work reflected the religious influences of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The main subject of their poetry was the worship of the divinised feminine character resembling the Christian Virgin Mary, Gnostic Sophia or the ancient Mother Goddess. -
A Conversation with Anjani by Frank Goodman (4/2007, Puremusic.Com)
A Conversation with Anjani by Frank Goodman (4/2007, Puremusic.com) I heard recently about an artist produced by Leonard Cohen with a major label release called Blue Alert. I got hooked on the mp3 I found of the title cut; the lyrics definitely seemed to be Cohen's, though the music seemed too jazzy. The email I'd received about it said she was his backup singer; so, one assumes, his partner perhaps, when a photo revealed her exotic good looks. It was all true, as it turned out; and the album, more importantly, was as beautiful as the single. As all things connected to Leonard Cohen have always seemingly been, it is a project quite unto itself. Any remotely jazzy chanteuse in this decade will get compared to Norah Jones (and, in some circles, Madeleine Peyroux) and here Blue Alert holds its own, especially by virtue of its independence from these artists. Coincidentally, Madeleine cut the song as well, though quite differently. I thought I was going to find a diva, but I was wrong. Anjani Thomas is a very friendly and engaging person, lovely in every respect. We had a very nice time, and I think the conversation and the clips will certainly lead the discriminating to pick up this first major release from an artist who could well become a fixture in that rarified realm of jazz pop where so few are allowed a spot. She's an accomplished pianist, co-writer and arranger, and a soft supple singer. And she's got presence for days. -
Mapping the Great Divide in the Lyrics of Leonard Cohen
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. IX, No. 1, 2017 0975-2935 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.s01 Full Text: http://rupkatha.com/V9/n1/v9n1s01.pdf Mapping the Great Divide in the Lyrics of Leonard Cohen Thomas J. Haslam College of Liberal Arts, Shantou University, China. Email: [email protected] Received February 28, 2017; Accepted June 10, 2017; Published June 15, 2017. Abstract It is generally accepted that Leonard Cohen’s songwriting changed significantly in the early 1980s, due to Cohen’s choice of a Casio synthesizer over a guitar as his instrument of composition. But this explanation begs fundamental questions of how we understand change and continuity in Cohen’s work across nearly five decades and fourteen studio albums. This study draws upon text mining and data visualization results which map Cohen’s lyrical vocabulary. Based on that data, it offers a reinterpretation of the Great Divide, the presumed departure in songwriting between Cohen’s first six and last eight studio albums. Keywords: text mining, lyrics, Leonard Cohen, Judaism. Did the songwriting of Leonard Cohen change significantly starting in the early 1980s? If so, how did it change? And why? I ask these questions because it is now commonly accepted that Leonard Cohen’s songwriting did. For the British daily newspaper The Guardian, in a well-researched and emotionally moving obituary for Cohen, Dorian Lynskey (2016) stated as fact that “Cohen’s resurgence began with a cheap Casio keyboard he bought in Manhattan, whose plinky presets granted him a new way to write.” This claim derives from the Cohen scholarship.