Here it is (from fRoots 292): LEONARD COHEN Songs Of Leonard Cohen Columbia Legacy 88697 04742 2 Songs From A Room Columbia Legacy 88697 04740 2 Songs Of Love And Hate Columbia Legacy 88697 04741 2 On its release Cohen's Songs Of Leonard Cohen (1967) was more than a strained-voice recapitulation of ...

I will post the review this weekend.
Bernd

The october issue of british world-music magazine fRoots has a review of the three cd-reissues of the first three Cohen albums.
Bernd

I tried to download the album from amazon.com, but the download was denied because of "geographical restrictions". Does this mean that they sell it only to american or canadian customers? By the way: I´m thankful for any information on how to get the spanish tribute concert cd ACORDES CON ...

The article comes with three photographs; two recent ones (Cohen and Arjani in concert, Warsaw (march 31), Cohen smoking a cigarette) and an old black & white picture from 1974. In the interview Cohen says "Bird on the wire", not "Bird on a wire" (but that doesn´t mean he rea...

The interview isn´t available online (unless you buy the complete issue). So here´s my translation (of course I take full responsibility for all the mistakes, inaccuracies and lack of clarity . . .) Bernd " Music was second choice " SPIEGEL: Mr Cohen, you figure as a grandmaster of melanch...

The weekly german magazine SPIEGEL (out on monday 9.4.) features an interview with Leonard Cohen (2 pages).
He started work on a new album ("It will take some time"), a tour is planned but not yet confirmed.