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Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather (2004)
Leonard Cohen's Dear Heather is full of poetry, weighty themes, and lighthearted humor. Unlike some of his more slickly produced later work, Dear Heather has a light and spacious touch. Cohen still contrasts his gruff vocals with sweet-voiced women -- sometimes massed in choruses, often just either of his longtime collaborators Anjani Thomas and Sharon Robinson -- and the songs are more likely to rely on keyboards than the acoustic guitars of his classic recordings from the '60s. First, the poetry: Cohen turns Lord Byron's poem "So We'll Go No More A-Roving" into a sexy slow jam and recites Frank Scott's "Villanelle for Our Time," gradually adding an improvisatory piano backing; then, by changing his inflections and adding Thomas's heavenly backing vocals, he turns it into a song. Cohen still takes his role as elder sage seriously: "On That Day" is his 9/11 opus, but it's a brief one at just over two minutes (most of these songs are brief), and "To a Teacher" and "The Faith" rely on biblical allusions and provocative rhetorical questions. But Cohen's sense of humor is more prominent than ever on Dear Heather. In "Because Of," he notes, "Because of a few songs wherein I spoke of their mysteries / women have been exceptionally kind to my old age," and delightful comic touches are imparted by his Jew's harp in "Nightingale" and his carefully enunciated diction in the title track. Dear Heather shows that this elder statesman still has some new tricks up his elegantly disheveled sleeves... S. Klinge
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 256 kB/s
Size: ca. 61 MB
Genre : Pop
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Tracklist:
01. Go No More A-Roving 03:43
02. Because Of 03:03
03. The Letters 04:48
04. Undertow 04:22
05. Morning Glory 03:32
06. On That Day 02:06
07. Villanelle For Our Time 05:57
08. There For You 04:39
09. Dear Heather 03:43
10. Nightingale 02:30
11. To A Teacher 02:35
12. The Faith 04:20
13. Tenessee Waltz (Live Version ) 04:05
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