Perla Batalla - Bird on the Wire/the Songs of Leonard Cohen
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Artist: Perla BatallaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-08-16
Music Label: Mechuda Music
Soundtracks:
- If It Be Your Will
- Seems So Long ago Mancy
- Coming Back to You
- Dance me to the end of Love
- So Long Marianne
- Came so far for Beauty
- Ballad of the Absent Mare
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- Bird on the Wire
- Suzanne
Music reviews of Bird on the Wire/the Songs of Leonard Cohen
Music Review: Another side of L.C.
Rating: 3 Stars
Les admirateurs de LC sont des disciples, plutôt membres d'une secte fièvreuse que d'un Fan-club et dont la caractéristique est d'être allés au fonds de la plus profonde misère en compagnie du Maître et à en être revenus vivants mais changés à jamais. Perla Batalla l'exprime bien en détournant un commentaire "live" de LC introduisant "Take this Waltz" au sujet du surréaliste Garcia-lorca : "This man ruined my life". Elle, qui a accompagné le Maître et dont la voix sera pour toujours mélée à la Sienne a voulu suivre à son tour le chemin emprunté avec succès par Jennifer Warnes (in "Famous blue raincot")et donner une interprétation plus personnelle et "solo" d'un bouquet de chansons de Léonard assez curieusement parmi les plus anciennes. Disons le une bonne fois: la voix est chaude et magnifique et c'est un plaisir de revisiter "If it be your will", "Nancy", "So long Marianne" et l'immortelle "Suzanne" qui nous ramènent à nos émotions adolescentes...Il n'y a que des "classiques" dans ce disque avec le choix de duos mais là ou Jennifer avait pu capturer le Maître (dans une interprétation particulière de Joan of Arc) c'est David Hidalgo qui rejoint Perla sur l'entêtante "Ballad of the absent mare" et Bill Gable pour ce qui est certainement la meilleure reprise du disque la version "spanish" de "Dance me to the end of love". En bon "goy" j'ai cru à la première écoute que c'était une version en Yiddih ! la lecture de la pochette l'a démenti, mais il reste que c'est une interprétation qui transcende cet air et lui donne, si c'est possible, une autre dimension. J'ai été moins friand du mariage final entre Suzanne et O'Susannah, le clin d'oeil est amusant mais l'effet ? Désolé, je n'arrive pas à habiller l'immotelle "Suzanne" en cow-girl. En conclusion : une belle réalisation, très soignée (la "pochette" est superbe)et il est si long d'attendre le prochain COHEN que tout ceux qui le chantent, surtout aussi bien que la belle et sensuelle Perla, seront toujours bienvenus dans nos "Towers of songs".
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Leonard Cohen?s gruff voice has kept many from properly appreciating the brilliance and utter romanticism of his songs. Perla Batalla here lovingly wraps her warm voice around 10 of them to glorious results. The best are the ones where she takes the most liberties: ?Famous Blue Raincoat? backed by a string quartet, a jazzy ?Seems So Long Ago, Nancy,? ?Ballad of the Absent Mare? as a duet with David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, ?Dance Me to the End of Love? as a duet with Bill Gable partially translated into Spanish, ?Suzanne? cleverly interpolating bits of Steven Foster?s ?O Susanna.? The sound is sumptuous. Engineer/mixer Leanne Unger is an excellent choice for the project as she has worked on many of Cohen?s own albums over the years. Her sympathy and love for Cohen?s songs, plus her familiarity with them, greatly enhances the album. The three cover shots of Perla Batalla and Leonard Cohen sharing warm moments speaks volumes both to Perla?s sincerity and love for Cohen?s songs and Cohen?s endorsement of Perla?s work. Beautifully conceived and executed, Bird on the Wire is a rewarding listening experience I find myself returning to frequently. It is every bit the equal of Jennifer Warnes? classic Cohen tribute album Famous Blue Raincoat. For those uninitiated to the glories of the songs of Leonard Cohen this is a wonderful introduction. For the rest of us it is simply heavenly. ? Michael TearsonFolk CDs
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