Title ZEN & POESIE – Das Leonard Cohen - Lexikon Band 3
The Cohenpedia-Series Vol. 3
Tourdates, Setlists & Spoken Words 1957 – 2013
Author Christof Graf
Country & Year Germany 2020
Publisher COD Verlag, Germany
Pages 582 pages, in German, partly bi-lingual (English), paperback
Notes ISBN 9783945329177
Vol 3 - Summary
„Zen & Poetry – The Leonard Cohen Lexicon Volume III – Leonard Cohen Live On Stage – Tourdates, Setlists & Spoken Words 1957 – 2013 documents almost every concert on each of his previous tours, which the Canadian rock poet spanned in his more than five decades spanning career.
Each tour is shown with the date of the concert and, if researchable, with setlists (which was not always possible at the beginning of the 1970s – due to the lack of sources), tour posters and live impressions. This work show his complemented by live performances by Leonard Cohen with notes that refer to special features (à see “Notes” and “Remarks”) of each concert.
Another focus is the so-called „spoken words“-section. „Spoken Words“ in the form of Leonard Cohen’s comments on the individual songs, stories of origin, backgrounds or comments on current events at the time. Archive material from the analog and digital world of the past 50 years served as sources for this. „Volume III“ is completed by almost 500 previously unpublished photo material.
Title ZEN & POESIE – Das Leonard Cohen - Lexikon Band 4
The Cohenpedia-Series Vol. 4
Un Hommage – Reprinted & Expanded
Author Christof Graf
Country & Year Germany 2020
Publisher COD Büroservice, Germany
Pages 254 pages, in German, partly in English and French, paperback
Notes ISBN 9783945329184
Vol. 4 - Summary
The author publishes excerpts at irregular intervals. The first edition of the Cohenpedia-series titled “Zen & Poesie”- Das Leonard Cohen – Lexicon – Band 1 was released on April 6th, 2018.
Flashback 1996. At that time two books on Leonard Cohen by Christof Graf were published. On the one hand the first German-language biography „Partisan of Love“ and on the other hand a small documentary of Leonard Cohen’s 1993 tour of Germany entitled „Un Hommage“. The latter has been out of print for a long time, but is always in demand or occasionally offered “unnecessarily expensive” by collectors and dealers.
„Un Hommage – Reprinted & Expanded“ appears as Volume 4 in the „the Cohenpedia series“. Volume 4 primarily contains the exact reprint of a book that is almost a quarter of a century old. „Un Hommage – Reprinted“ is supplemented by additional, as yet unpublished, photo material. Volume 4 is also supplemented by an interview conducted at the time (1994) by Andrew Eldritch, the founder of the cult rock band „The Sisters Of Mercy“ with Leonard Cohen. Elritch named his band in 1980 after a song by Leonard Cohen. A few photos from that time complement the upgrade of „Un Hommage – Reprinted & Expanded“. In 1996 the original book was published in German / French. The original layout remains in the „reprinted“ edition of 2020. The additional “bonus material” is added as an “upgrade” to the original layout of the book that was first published in 1996. The “reprint” naturally does not claim to be up-to-date. „Zen & Poetry – Volume 4 -“ Un Hommge – Reprinted „-The Cohenpedia Series Vol. IV“ is a kind of further addition from the „Cohenpedia.de“ website and the associated blog.leonardcohen.de, which are always „in progress“.
Thanks to Christof Graf for the information!
