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From Mike Judd:

"I just discovered a new Cohen cover song that you don't have posted yet. It's a version of "Dance Me To The End Of Love" by American singer Madeline Peyroux. The album "Careless Love" containing the song is new and comes out in America on Septebmer 14th. Here is a link to her site:

http://www.madeleinepeyroux.com/index.php?id=audio.php

Take care,
Mike"

--- a nice jazzy version, there is a sound sample on her site!/Jarkko

I just discovered this cover by chance yesterday - not here - and as I wanted to say something about it (thinking in the same time "who will be care about a cover when DH is in the full process of being delivered with all the fuss and everything, but ay! OK I'll do it, anyway"), here, I saw this message. Better late than never!

Beautiful cover! As a blues lover I am smitten all over by this version.

How is it to be twins in voice like Billie Holyday and Madeleine Peyroux are?

That's what the NPR blurb was saying about her, with regard to the upcoming segment on her, that I ended up missing ~ that she's being compared a lot to Billie Holiday. My thought when I heard that was that, with this being the case, she will bring more awareness of Leonard and his music to a whole new segment of people .

You can find by yourself by clicking on the link to BH' site in my previous message. If you do you may be really surprised of the similitude. How do you like the sample of Dance Me to the End of Love on MP's site, however?

Hi Tchocolatl ~ I can't remember on which thread I commented on my reaction to it, but it wasn't my favourite, for sure. More of a vocal 'exercise' of sorts than a rendition inclusive of its emotional content. I'll check out the similitude later, when I'm able to do the earphones thing.

~ Lizzy

It was on the CKUT thread that we discussed Madeleine Peyroux. She was included in the LC birthday special on CKUT in september. I kind of like her interpretation. It is surprisingly different in that it carries a playfull emotion. But I still prefer Kate Gibson's more sensual version of the song from the Strange Days soundtrack album. I'd say even over the one by LC.

Simon

~ I can't imagine I'll ever prefer someone else's cover[s] to Leonard's original[s]. Just comes with the territory . Thanks for nailing where the discussion of Madeleine's cover took place .

Yes, I know what you mean. I guess it's just a personal thing that I'd rather be danced to the end of love by a woman.

Simon

Well, yes, I have to give you that .

Hello lizzytysh and Simon,

Simon quite right with me for the playful and emotion, and peaceful also I guess that if the end of Love is Life this is a kind of joyful life reached over the sorrow and the panic. May we say? I like it very much. I just tone it for the playful piano passage a little bit too asymetric for my round taste. I never heard Kate Gibson's version. I see lizzytysh... I prefer the original also, I just began to get interested in covers, in fact, and it provides sometimes very nice surprise to me.

Ah, yes, the idea of covers in general is, indeed, very interesting and exciting. The ones in 'foreign-to-English' ones are particularly wonderful for me. I'm not sure of your comment to Simon regarding the piano. I'd need to listen to it, again....and it sounds like it may be a more musician-oriented comment, anyway [which I am certainly not ]. However, there remains a possibility that I could figure out what you meant, regardless. That's an interesting 'take' and 'justification' on the 'joyful' sound of Madeleine's cover. You make a good point.

It is more a music oriented comment. You know how jazz could be sometimes? The song swings smoothly and regularly then goes this jazzy piano solo like a little excited brat that runs all over the place. If you see what I mean. If not, then, lesson to the song again

~ Yes, I do know what you mean ~ wasn't your comment that you didn't like the balance and regularity of hers? something like that, as though you'd prefer she get a little bratty with it?

If it was a Tchoco comment, it was from another Tchocolatl. Are we so many of us here?

Ah, it was asymmetric ~ that's where the confusion lie, lied, lay. Same Tchoco, though .