Old Ideas - Cohen, Leonard

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Cohen, Leonard - Old Ideas Leonard Cohen release the new album Old Ideas, his first studio album since 2004's Dear Heather.

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While the recording of Old Ideas began in earnest in January 2011, many of the new songs and their lyrics have been in the works for years. Early versions of two album tracks, "Amen" and "Lullaby" were originally recorded in 2007, while early versions of "Lullaby" and " The Darkness" were performed live during Cohen's recently concluded, sold-out world tour. Fans were given another hint of what to expect when Cohen made remarks as the recipient of the Principe de Asturias Prize for literature in Spain in October.

"As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. And the instructions were these...Never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity & beauty."

The album by Leonard Cohen was produced with Patrick Leonard, Anjani Thomas, Ed Sanders and Dino Soldo. Complementing Cohen's signature baritone on Old Ideas are the exceptional vocalists Dana Glover, Sharon Robinson, The Webb Sisters (Hattie and Charley Webb) and Jennifer Warnes. The album's cover design and drawings are Cohen's own.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

Going Home
Amen
Show Me The Place
The Darkness
Anyhow
Crazy To Love You
Come Healing
Banjo
Lullaby
Different Sides

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old ideas - new introductions

Roger Hawcoft on 22.02.2012

No sad, struggling Leonard here - just a brilliant collection of new songs, perhaps a moderated delivery, but no less - stimulation for the emotions and the intellect. Brilliant Leonard - along with Dylan & Waits, for several decades now you've brought me inspired and enlightened insights into life, people, relationships and the World. You're still doing it.

Another great album

Carrie Osmo on 29.02.2012

Being a Leonard Cohen fan since my teens I was always going to be receptive to a new album by this my fave artist ;o) Once again again it is a mix, both a development on earlier work and some quite dfferent arrangements (as in prior releases).. I like the entire album and in particular at the moment "going home" and "different sides" which are reminiscent of his earlier work, and "darkness" which would grab me whenever I heard it! It has a softer feel than his earlier albums but it loses nothing in doing this. It is just another facet of a fabulous artist.