180 Gram Vinyl! Released on Vinyl for the First Time Ever!! Includes Insert!
Leonard Cohen, the most elegant Canadian bard, whispers his way through his 2004 album Dear Heather like a poet quietly musing over his life and loves. The mellow, hushed, and somewhat nocturnal character of the album commands attention through Cohen's deep baritone and Sharon Robinson's clear vocals. It's an intimate album that celebrates lost loves and friendships instead of mourning them, an introspective look on life from a ripe old age (Cohen turned 70 when the album was released).
"Its instrumentation is drenched in the beat nightclub atmospherics of Ten New Songs: trippy, skeletal R&B and pop and Casio keyboard- and beatbox-propelled rhythm tracks are graced by brushed drums, spectral saxophones, and vibes, along with an all but imperceptible acoustic guitar lilting sleepily through it all. But this doesn't get it, because there's so much more than this, too. That said, Dear Heather is Cohen's most upbeat offering. Rather than focus on loss as an end, it looks upon experience as something to be accepted as a portal to wisdom and gratitude." - Thom Jurek, allmusic.com
Features:
180 Gram Vinyl
Import
Released on Vinyl for the First Time Ever
Includes Insert
Musicians:
Leonard Cohen, vocals, guitar, piano, Jew's Harp
Sharon Robinson, vocals
Selections:
Side 1:
1. Go No More A-Roving
2. Because Of
3. The Letters
4. Undertow
5. Morning Glory
6. On That Day
Side 2:
1. Villanelle For Our Time
2. There For You
3. Dear Heather
4. Nightingale
5. To A Teacher
6. The Faith
Leonard Cohen, the most elegant Canadian bard, whispers his way through his 2004 album Dear Heather like a poet quietly musing over his life and loves. The mellow, hushed, and somewhat nocturnal character of the album commands attention through Cohen's deep baritone and Sharon Robinson's clear vocals. It's an intimate album that celebrates lost loves and friendships instead of mourning them, an introspective look on life from a ripe old age (Cohen turned 70 when the album was released).
"Its instrumentation is drenched in the beat nightclub atmospherics of Ten New Songs: trippy, skeletal R&B and pop and Casio keyboard- and beatbox-propelled rhythm tracks are graced by brushed drums, spectral saxophones, and vibes, along with an all but imperceptible acoustic guitar lilting sleepily through it all. But this doesn't get it, because there's so much more than this, too. That said, Dear Heather is Cohen's most upbeat offering. Rather than focus on loss as an end, it looks upon experience as something to be accepted as a portal to wisdom and gratitude." - Thom Jurek, allmusic.com
Features:
180 Gram Vinyl
Import
Released on Vinyl for the First Time Ever
Includes Insert
Musicians:
Leonard Cohen, vocals, guitar, piano, Jew's Harp
Sharon Robinson, vocals
Selections:
Side 1:
1. Go No More A-Roving
2. Because Of
3. The Letters
4. Undertow
5. Morning Glory
6. On That Day
Side 2:
1. Villanelle For Our Time
2. There For You
3. Dear Heather
4. Nightingale
5. To A Teacher
6. The Faith