The Public Respectable Barcelona Hat to Leonard Cohen
Reuters
Rosa Diaz
The Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen filled the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona ...
Barcelona, October 3 (EFE). - If the public of Barcelona take hat, as Leonard Cohen takes him and his musicians, tonight I would have taken before the veteran Canadian musician, who has shown at the Palau Sant Jordi is in full art form.
The concert started on time Mediterranean, only fifteen minutes late, with the song "Dance Me To The End Of Love", the singer has performed kneeling before guitarist Javier Mas, an Aragonese based in Barcelona, the key solvent band accompanying teacher.
Attentive to all, the singer has taken off his hat to introduce the members of his band and provided a first batch of songs riddled with legendary songs as "Bird On The Wire", "Everybody Knows" and "Sisters of Mercy".
The audience responded with applause turned into the first chords and respectful silence during the performance of the subjects.
The placid atmosphere has remained deep communion when veteran musician has started splashing repertoire with songs from their latest album "Old Ideas", a work that has come to light after the previous seven years and that is a good example the excellent creative moment of its author.
"It is a privilege to be in Barcelona. Not know if we will see again, but I promise you that today we will give everything we have," he said.
At 78 just turned, Cohen maintains his charm intact and that deep voice and cavernous, able to drag the public to the deepest parts of the human soul.
A whole winning voice to the accompaniment of the wonderful voices of Sharon Robinson and The Webb Sisters and six musical wrapping band members led by bassist Roscoe Beck, all dressed in suits, as Cohen himself.
In an elegant setting surrounded by long curtains, the equally elegant composer, singer, poet and writer has tested his fitness and untied over 30 topics in 3 hours.
His hunched figure danced, was crouching, kneeling is, has been playing guitar and has even taken a few notes on the keyboard in "Tower of Song".
But above has dug into the eternal themes in this tireless troubadour takes a lifetime delving: sex, love and religion.
Delivered His parishioners have been enjoying the slow pace and the teacher poems comfortably seated, as the organization has placed chairs, not only in the stands, where it is common, but also on the track.
The audience, mostly mature, thanked the detail and remained seated until, after an hour and half concert, the band has seen retired and has feared that the ritual had come abruptly to an end.
A member of the organization has been forced to take the microphone and clarify that the concert was in two parts and just ended the first.
The second half began with "Tower of Song", but heartfelt applause they have been brought "Suzanne", which has won melancholy with input Bublitchi Alexandru Moldovan violinist.
In this issue, the big screen is broken momentarily incident coincided with the spontaneous decision to keep these cameras and accompany their music with the movement of their lighters, in what has seemed a trip back in time the analog era.
Then Cohen has given a break to your vocal cords while Sharon Robinson and The Webb Sisters performed "Coming Back to You" and "Alexandra Leaving".
The stretch has had gems like "Hallelujah", "Take This Waltz", "So Long Marianne" and "Manhattan", and about 12,000 people present could not get out unless their seats with applause and thank this tireless troubadour follow in the gap.
Rosa Diaz
The Voice Paused A Wise And Grave
Leonard Cohen stops time in his first concert in Spain with a detailed and sober performance
Luis Hidalgo
Barcelona
4 OCT 2012 - 01:19 CET
Leonard Cohen, during his concert last night in Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi. / Marcel · li Saenz
Prisa, anxiety and noise. Speakers, smoke and restlessness. More haste, a message the phone spits and beyond tone is heard from another that demands the attention. Speed. More speed. Then a man dressed in gray, no tie, with a Borsalino hat topped his appearance. It was Leonard Cohen. Everything stopped, time seemed to stop and nothing feverish reminded society that lives off campus. He worked the miracle. Several thousand people were outstanding figure of a man almost octogenarian who whispered with a deep voice that seems born to utter only words of wisdom. It was 2125 and the Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona witnessed the sudden muteness. Leonard Cohen began the first of two concerts in Spain. The amazing thing will be repeated tomorrow in Madrid.
Feeling pause. The wise voice, began to reel Dance me to the end of love as its owner watched Javier Mas attacking the strings of his lute, acoustic heart of the group. Applause for that silence was not the only companion of the letter. Cohen, gaunt figure dry, closed his eyes and moved his body to the rhythmic beat of the song. Finished this, first ovation and the audience happy buzz that almost filled the room. Then Cohen spoke to say those things to Cohen says when talking between songs, a "a pleasure to sing for you in Catalonia" that gave a remarkable and outstanding geography in complicity. Not five minutes had passed and the audience was subjected to pause.
Thirteen pieces made up the first part of his recital. The future was the second, and Cohen used it to kneel like a candle collection. On the carpet, seemed to pray while his litany, serious and warm, was fanned by favoring excellent sound understanding of words and transported transparency guitar riffs that opened Bird on the wire between public satisfaction. Again kneeling, ceremonious slowness in composition, Cohen sang. After he stood up, introduced the first musicians. The lute Everybody knows Mas opened and maintained its prominence in Who by fire, who sang Cohen clutching his acoustic guitar.
Before anyone questions remain rang the 'Suzanne' in the Palau San Jordi
And everything flowed slowly, placing, now here now there, keyboard input, such as in the bluessy The Darkness, part of his latest work, or an arrangement of violin to perfume Hey, that's no way to say goodbye, or female voices of the trio who opened Come healing and In My Secret Life. Cohen, like a good lover, giving space to the caress, caring detail.
And recalling the loves of old, minted by memory as Sisters of mercy or Waiting for the miracle. After this composition, Anthem, solo mandolin with Mas, closed the first half. Cohen, hat in hand, introduced a whole band, thanked the attention of respectable, educated hosted its roar and went into the clubhouse. Hour and a half had passed and the public, who had not been warned, thought the concert concluded. Javier Mas managed the mess and announced a 15 minute break.
The second half picked up the bunch of classics. Tower of song opened and before anyone questions remain rang Suzanne. Sighs and memory were twinned between mature audiences seemed to have waited long time. Even in the first row, oh old ways!, Several lighters were lit as a gesture of surrender and complacency. Interestingly, no doubt linked to the profile of attendance, barely perceived flashes of mobile screens, light pollution at every concert.
Last night the glow just went to a gray man who sang songs like The partisan, I'm your man, Hallelujah, Take this waltz, So Long Marianne and Famous Blue Raincoat. Bits of history in last night glided unhurriedly before collecting public attention of an audience for three hours forget the rush and took refuge under the hat he wore a calm voice and pushed for years serious of wisdom. Leonard Cohen.
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Barcelona (ACN.) - Leonard Cohen has made stops in Barcelona on Wednesday to deliver a long concert, at this time, still at the Palau Sant Jordi. The veteran musician, composer and poet of 78 years from the tour in August with the world tour'' Old Ideas', with a vast repertoire of over three hours and includes pieces from his latest album, 'Old Ideas' (2011). The age of the Canadian musician and accidents like that forced him to cancel his concert in FIB 2011 suggested that Cohen never return to the Catalan capital, after his last visit three years ago. But Cohen is not only fit to continue acting but composed albums like 'Old Ideas', which he described as "more spiritual."
