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Anjani Thomas, who conquered the singer Leonard Cohen
Text ALFONSO CARDINAL posted on Jan 28, 2013 in category Interviews , international Interviews , Magazine
"Leonard and I are both committed to the songs without being tied to them. He taught me to edit and rule without fear. So what if it takes seven, twenty or thirty years to get exactly what you want to express? "
Seven years ago Anjani Thomas (1959) surprised everyone with the release of "Blue Alert", a beautiful album that flows next to the different genres that featured jazz and Leonard Cohen as principal lyricist. This year the singer returns with "I came to love", an album that promises to follow in the footsteps of its predecessor and in which each song has germinated at your pace.
Text: ALFONSO CARDINAL.
After that magnificent musical pearl 2006, which came recommended by Cohen himself, Anjani disappeared from the radar of the media to take refuge in the paint and prepare their next album. "It was not my intention to take this long, but things have gone well and I've learned not to argue with the clock of the universe. I have written and recorded many songs from "Blue Alert". All are precious to me, even the songs I've ruled out, "the artist told EFE justifies EME.
Now, the Hawaiian singer, has finished his fourth album since 2000. "The album is called 'I came to love'. It will be available in the spring in digital format. There has been such a change in the music industry in recent years is needed today is a significant demand to justify a physical format. Most people prefer to listen to my music the way. " Anjani's music is delicate and precious, right down to the smallest detail. Something very own school Cohen, much given to work weeks in a verse, in a word. "Leonard and I are both committed to the songs without being tied to them. He taught me to edit and rule without fear. So what if it takes seven, twenty or thirty years to get exactly what you want to express? Sometimes you get lucky and God says 'Here' and appears in front of you but all that's weird and I do not mind waiting for the gems rise to the surface. It's worth waiting for the truth, "explains Anjani, who is involved in the choice of the cover and decide who will distribute his album outside the U.S..
Re-record it has resisted the singer, who has spent a few years in the shelter of the painting and his return to music has been facing the creative process. "Discard songs has been the hardest thing has been to give them time and see that the disk was growing in another direction. Sometimes I'm lost and I hated what I heard and I had to go back in to edit a song so they returned to connect with me and all that I have taken much longer. In the end I was left with the songs that still had power, I looked longer singing. "For his new album, has again come to his companion. "There are some poems of Leonard I've become music, and I have written letters and composers collaborated with two more," says the artist.
Leonard Cohen Anjani met almost thirty years ago and have since maintained a special relationship. "We met in 1984 through John Lissauer, my friend that was occurring at Cohen. I was hired to do the chorus vocal recording 'Hallelujah' and then worked singing and playing the keyboard on the tour of that album was 'Various Positions' ". The friendship between the two artists was sealed since then and has not even Anjani Canadian frequented the stage itself has remained close to the poet at the time of writing and composing, a luxury partner gives his work a greater lyrical depth.
"During the time I was recording, Leonard was on the road and had to navigate alone. Ideas and he would send me back track. He was as involved as he could "
"Blue Alert" led the way musical Anjani and still has weight in the development of this new work. "Leonard wrote the lyrics of that album and I music. It was a very collaborative album because he had a clear idea of what led me to make that record. So took a few songs to the first, although other took many takes to do them well. When it was perfect we both feel in our bones. One of the songs that will be entered in that record again. It is entitled 'Standing on the stairs' and that a song that has traveled extensively. Born as a country-inspired song, then stained folk and eventually discarded altogether. Two years later I met Jerry Marotta, the producer of this album, and was one of the first songs we recorded. During the time I was recording, Leonard was on the road and had to navigate alone. Ideas and he would send me back track. He was as involved as he could, "says the singer.
Anjani has not been quiet the years that have elapsed between the two discs, has been involved in several projects, but especially in "live". "There are many issues of concern these days for social, political or environmental.'ve Been true to the inner journey, growing and changing as an artist, as a woman and as a citizen of the world because art is something mysterious and sometimes internal needs rest , recharged, listen and be inspired in different ways. "
The singer, as the Canadian poet, exudes intensity and reflection in his words, is one of those people whose speech hypnotizes, whose words seem to sound in another dimension where ideas are more chewed and everything sounds less vain, less vulgar. Explain the creative process that leads an artist to create a work is always a cumbersome field. Anjani makes his way. "Before I went back to the studio a few years painting and I loved the tactile experience of working with color and canvas. I approached painting the same way as music. When I'm creating something I can go for weeks without seeing anyone. But inside I'm exploring, listening, watching the sky change color and feeling leaves are turned by the wind before it starts raining as I say they are thirsty birds and tell me about their lives. A lot of activity going on at that time silent. Then back to the fabric and paint ten or twelve hours until I finish the piece. The next day, the next week, I look at that picture and if the conversation is over I feel happy, I feel incomplete if maybe repaint a new scene. It worked that way, also in music, "says Anjani bare chest. In a few weeks back the sun, the heat, he will do with the new album by the Hawaiian singer, a job that is born macerated unhurried, at your own pace, with Cohen school early.
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