The closeup of Neil Larsen's keyboard glissando (click image to view animation) is one of the high points of Cohen 101, n unusual, flawed, wonderful video promotion for Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas album that was never officially shown but nonetheless has been viewed over 3,000 times.
Fans of Neil Larsen can download the animated gif version of his hands rolling down the keyboard created for this post. First, left-click on the image. When it expands, right-click on it, choose "save image as" from the context menu, save it to any location you chose on your computer's hard drive. Opening the downloaded file will then display the animation.
Cohen 101 is an unusual, flawed, wonderful video - a promotion for Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas album that was never officially shown but nonetheless has been viewed over 3,000 times.
The animation shown above of the two hearts rotating into the Unified Heart symbol (click on the second image to view animation) that serves as the opening logo of sorts is only a trivial example of the film's atypical elements.
Fans who like the Unified Heart animation can download the animated gif version of it I created for this post. First, left-click on the second image atop this post. When it expands, right-click on it, choose "save image as" from the context menu, save it to any location you chose on your computer's hard drive. Opening the downloaded file will then display the animation.
In honour (it is, after all, a Canadian "honour") of Leonard Cohen being named the Ninth Laureate of The Glenn Gould Prize, DrHGuy offers this mashup of Ruth Abernethy's sculpture of Glenn Gould, located outside of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Studios on Front Street in Toronto, and the image of Leonard Cohen from the cover art of his Old Ideas album, which is based on a photo by Kezban Özcan.
The Russian version of the Old Ideas CD is contributed by Dominique BOILE, who points out the the booklet (displayed below) in this iteration of Old Ideas contains only four pages.
Count on Dominique BOILE to come up with a higher quality image of the Old Ideas promotional bookmarks than those published yesterday at Signs Of Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas Bookmark
Enough of the review, Album Of Old Ideas by Eduard Ţone in this month's Playboy Romania, survives Google Translate to convey significance and insight:
Cohen has nearly 78 years and eight years not entered the studio to make a new record. After all, who expect something new from the one who played with poetry nearly everything they could sing in poetry, or love - until its end. At 78 years, sits at the table and each bite of the slice of bread, ham with forgetting that she had put on.
Others remember perfectly what love means. Moreover, live and play. Old Ideas Cohen is one of them. He wrote ten songs that creep into your soul without you realize. You find them there, first revolt, then go with the flow, because a love song to Cohen has enough arguments to defeat any rival in the ring in any other area. Old Ideas is a nearly perfect album.
Elegant, introspective and, at times, surprising. The music is perfectly adapted to poetry - does not go beyond verse and fits gracefully over its depths, transmitting what Cohen wants to convey with this new album, from the serenity of his almost 78 years: old ideas are more Sometimes the best.
10 Albums In 2012, also in this month's Playboy Romania, fares less well in its transformation into English (again by Google Translation) but is worth noting:
Cohen brings his charming fans ecstatic with the first studio album after 2004. 10 tracks cut by Leonard's poetic soul, brought together in what is meant "the spiritual creation" of the career of a musician at 78, still has things whispered
