Re: CONCERT REPORT: Oslo, August 6, 2010
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:52 am
http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/08/07/kult ... /12865914/
"Heavenly Hitparade"
Leonard Cohen (75) met every expectation in Oslo Spektrum yesterday.
He gave a concert that will not be forgotten. Photo: Kristin Svorte
FREDRIK Wandrup
fwa@dagbladet.no
Leonard Cohen gave everything in Oslo Spektrum
Dagbladet): Always the same elegant, wearing black hat, striped, dark suit and a gray shirt buttoned to the neck, no tie.
How to Leonard Cohen nearly smådansende on stage, smiling and bowing to his knees in front of his Spanish guitar Javier Mas.
He is already under way with "Dance Me To the End of Love", the first song in a parade of songs that almost captivates the 8000 spectators.
Lifting his hat
With two guitarists, a blower, bass, drums, keyboard player and three female choir performs Leonard Cohen's songs for a devoted, Norwegian public. A concert that gives the impression of calm and musical meditation on the texts and melodies. With a humble singer in the center, who frequently lifted his hat and puts it on his chest in honor of the public, medmusikerne and for life itself.
In perfecting arrangements, with a particularly pleasant sound and lighting a delicate sprinkle Cohen songs over the saddle in a stream of sweet.
The doomsday voted "The Future," "There Ain? T No Cure For Love," "Bird On a Wire," "Everybody Knows," "In My Secret Life," "Who By the Fire" (with a great guitar intro by Javier Mas), the dark blues, The Darkness, "" Born in Chains, "" Chelsea Hotel # 2 "," Waiting for a Miracle "and the last number in the first section," Anthem. "
Spontaneous
With his deep voice fairs Cohen presented his message. Lyrics, the words are just as clear and important as the music. Cohen sings his grief over the world, his prayers for forgiveness, visions of possible and impossible love, expectation and disappointment, sin and salvation, light and darkness. Often, he goes down on his knees as he sings, as if to squeeze the words into the microphone.
Having performed these songs, only the gods need to know how many times he gives them new life, spontaneous and lingering at the same time, as if he performed them for the first time.
Playing guitar
The first division took the breath away from people, it is if possible even more intimate after the break. Cohen plays only keyboards, guitar page, providing low-key but powerful versions of "Tower of Song," "Suzanne," the fabulous "The Singer Must Die" and "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"
The 'Feel So Good "follows" The Partisan ", a huge drama in the power of a guitar solo by Javier Mas, this musician from Barcelona, who have been so vital important to Cohen's concerts the later time.
But also the other musicians contributing to the highest degree of magic that radiates from the stage, both with an elegant and complete solos.
Giving everything
Cohen appears to be a mixture of mild doomsday prophet and affectionate but demanding lover. And he does not give up, he sweeps in with "Boogie Street," "Hallelujah," "I'm Your Man" and "Take This Waltz".
Then he comes back several times, with "So Long Marianne," "First We Take Manhattan," "Famous Blue Raincoat," "If It Be Your Will" and "Closing Time". This is the deadline for me, but he tends to express it in the end, "I Tried Before Thurs Leave You". He can do it in the end, to leave the room, after over three and a half hours in the Oslo Spektrum. He said initially that he would give everything. And he has certainly done
