The Canadian musician and writer Leonard Cohen meets today 80 years on the eve of editing the album “People Problems”, addressing concerns and dilemmas of today’s world.
Considered one of the greatest songwriters of the latter half of the twentieth century, Leonard Cohen celebrates 80 years of life, and more than forty music, with an album that speaks of war, religion, love and death.
‘People Problems’ 13th career album, “reflects the world we live in,” said Leonard Cohen in London this week, in a meeting with reporters, explaining that the album brings together “a wide palette of genres “as gospel, country and blues.
Despite the age, the musician has been more active since 2008, the year he embarked on a new international tour, after an absence of 15 years, and edited the album “Old Ideas” (2012).
On the new album, marked by a cavernous, deep voice feature Leonard Cohen said it is crossed by a feeling that is identifiable by all: “Everyone suffers and everyone is fighting for someone, to be recognized. One must realize that the struggle of a is equal to any other fight; and suffering also. I believe that never come to a political solution is not to realize this idea. ”
“People Problems” includes topics such as ‘Almost like the blues’, ‘Born in chains’, admitted that it took decades to complete, and “The Street”, written shortly after the attacks of September 11 2011 in New York, but only now revealed.
There is also the theme of ‘Nevermind’, which has a female voice singing in Arabic, representing the ‘oppressed’ and the anonymous victims of armed conflict.
Asked if a song can offer solutions to political problems, Leonard Cohen answered, “I think the song is, itself, a kind of solution.”
Leonard Cohen released the first album, “Songs of Leonard Cohen”, in 1967, having already done thirty years, and he revealed the literary aspect, in particular the poetry book “Let us compare mythologies “(1956) and the novel” The preferred Game “(1963).
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