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NOTES FOR NUKERS:
ESC release was bad quality (high frequencies are missing) see the
jpgs included in this release. We both used same settings/LAME
version. ESC also released Duran Duran same day which was also bad
(RTB already propered it). What about your M83 release? Shame on you,
ESC!
ALBUM REVIEW:
There is an air of finality on Leonard Cohen's Dear Heather. Cohen,
who turned 70 in September of 2004, offers no air of personal
mortality -- thank God; may this elegant Canadian bard of the holy and
profane live forever. It nonetheless looks back -- to teachers,
lovers, and friends -- and celebrates life spent in the process of
actually living it. The album's bookend tracks provide some evidence:
Lord Byron's bittersweet "Go No More A-Roving," set to music and sung
by Cohen and Sharon Robinson (and dedicated to Cohen's ailing mentor,
Irving Layton), and a beautifully crafted reading of country music's
greatest lost love song, "Tennessee Waltz." Cohen's voice is even
quieter, almost whispering, nearly sepulchral. The tone of the album
is mellow, hushed, nocturnal. Its instrumentation is drenched in the
beat nightclub atmospherics of Ten New Songs: trippy, skeletal R&B and
pop and Casio keyboard- and beatbox-propelled rhythm tracks are graced
by brushed drums, spectral saxophones, and vibes, along with an all
but imperceptible acoustic guitar lilting sleepily through it all. But
this doesn't get it, because there's so much more than this, too. That
said, Dear Heather is Cohen's most upbeat offering. Rather than focus
on loss as an end, it looks upon experience as something to be
accepted as a portal to wisdom and gratitude. Women permeate these
songs both literally and metaphorically. Robinson, who collaborated
with Cohen last time, is here, but so is Anjani Thomas. Leanne Ungar
also lends production help. Cohen blatantly sums up his amorous life
in "Because Of": "Because of a few songs/Wherein I spoke of their
mystery/Women have been exceptionally kind to my old age/They make a
secret place/In their busy lives/And they say, 'Look at me,
Leonard/Look at me one last time.'" "The Letters," written with
Robinson, who sings in duet, is a case in point, reflecting on a past
love who has been "Reading them again/The ones you didn't burn/You
press them to your lips/My pages of concern...The wounded forms
appear/The loss, the full extent/And simple kindness here/The solitude
of strength." "On That Day" is a deeply compassionate meditation on
the violence of September 11 where he asks the question: "Did you go
crazy/Or did you report/On that day...." It is followed by the spoken
poem "A Villanelle for Our Time," with words by Cohen's late professor
Frank Scott that transform these experiences into hope. "We rise to
play a greater part/The lesser loyalties depart/And neither race nor
creed remain/From bitter searching of the heart...." On "There for
You," with Robinson, Cohen digs even deeper into the well, telling an
old lover that no matter the end result of their love, he was indeed
there, had shown up, he was accountable and is grateful. Cohen quotes
his own first book, The Spice Box of Earth, to pay tribute to the late
poet A.M. Klein. "Tennessee Waltz" is indeed a sad, sad song, but it
is given balance in Cohen's elegant, cheerful delivery. If this is
indeed his final offering as a songwriter, it is a fine, decent, and
moving way to close this chapter of the book of his life.
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Tracks:
01. Go No More A-Roving (3:43)
02. Because Of (3:03)
03. The Letters (4:48)
04. Undertow (4:22)
05. Morning Glory (3:32)
06. On That Day (2:06)
07. Villanelle For Our Time (5:57)
08. There For You (4:39)
09. Dear Heather (3:43)
10. Nightingale (2:30)
11. To A Teacher (2:35)
12. The Faith (4:20)
13. Tennessee Waltz (Live) (4:05)
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