Various Artists - Cohen - The Scandinavian Report

Styles: Vocal, Pop/Rock
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:50
Size: 174,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:05)  1. Cookies 'n Beans - First We Take Manhattan
(3:48)  2. Rebecka Törnqvist - Here It Is
(4:31)  3. Moto Boy - If It Be Your Will
(4:46)  4. Jan Malmsjö - Dansa mig till kärlekens slut
(4:31)  5. Ane Brun - Ain't No Cure for Love
(5:31)  6. Bo Sundström - Everybody Knows
(4:10)  7. Sara Isaksson - Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye
(3:39)  8. Lars Halapi - Sisters of Mercy
(7:06)  9. Mikael Wiehe - USA är redo för demokrati
(3:39) 10. Anders Widmark - Hallelujah
(5:05) 11. Eva Dahlgren - Bird on the Wire
(4:31) 12. Vidar Johansen & Peter Nordberg - In My Secret Life
(4:21) 13. Jenny Wilson - The Partisan
(3:43) 14. Olle Ljungström - Chelsea Hotel #2
(7:12) 15. Sophie Zelmani - Waiting for the Miracle to Come
(5:04) 16. Christel Alsos - Suzanne

On a distinctly grey day in January I got a call from AnR Lars ”Billy” Hansson. After about a minute of comparing the wheather in Stockholm and Skåne , and making sure our families were both well, he asked me: How about making a tribute album to Leonard Cohen? I´ve always been a big fan of Cohens´ music and had two months earlier seen one of the best concerts in my life Leonard Cohen in Göteborg. So, of course, my answer was yes. So, how do you make a tribute album? Well, off course you need to find the right artist for the right song. Next step is to make it sound like one album. How do you achieve that? I had been thinking about this and also trying to find new ways to get presence and vibrance in recordings and I had an idea: 

One place, one time and one band.No safety net. The different artists would come one after another and sing their song. Lars Hansson liked the idea and we started to discuss singers and songs, studios and engineers, and budgets... Eventually we agreed on a list of very fine Swedish and Norwegian artists and to our joy almost everyone were happy to come. Further more we settled for the 17-18 of August at Studio 4, Radiohuset, Stockholm. Lars and I continued to work on the planning and logistics and I contacted all the artists to discuss key, tempo,arrangement and vibe. The C-day finally came. The plan was to record 19 songs in two days. This takes a lot of concentration from a lot of people. Singers, musicians, engineers. It also takes a lot of luck: One late airplane, two hours of computer problems and one artist not happy with the microphone could jeopardise the whole album. I can honestly say I´ve never been so tired, or musically happy, as when we finished the last song 9.30 pm on the 18th. Everybody involved had done their utmost to make this album come alive and the artists all brought their musicality, their personal interpretation, their concentration. And all this with high spirits and lot´s of generousity. I´m deeply grateful. And very proud over this album. http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/swedentrib.html

Cohen - The Scandinavian Report

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