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Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:51 pm
by hesperides23
Marissa Nadler's music reminds me very much of Leonard Cohen's early records. Her first couple albums sound like an alternate soundtrack to McCabe and Mrs Miller. She covers 'Famous Blue Raincoat' on her third album. Her fourth and latest is supposedly a little less folkie than her previous ones, but I haven't heard it yet.

http://www.last.fm/music/Marissa+Nadler

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:49 am
by pohlman
I would have expected someone to have mentioned Serge Gainsbourg by now, but maybe I'm the only one who hears a kinship:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Gainsbourg

His "Histoire de Melody Nelson" would most likely make my top ten list if I made a top ten list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_de_Melody_Nelson

If I understood French I would perhaps withdraw the observation but it sure sounds like they have similar sensibilities.

Of the younger kids (kids in my age group, that is) that seem to have a Leonard Cohen influence, I think Beck is most likely a fan, though I don't know how I would make a case for it in court. "Sea Change" in particular seems to have a touch of Cohen around the edges.

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:09 pm
by MT Baldy
I just posted about this elsewhere before I saw this thread... but, I really think Leonard Cohen fans would like Tom McKean & the Emperors.
Check them out here: http://www.theemperors.co.uk
Hear them here: http://www.myspace.com/tommckeanandtheemperors

They've written a piece about seeing Leonard Cohen at the Glastonbury Festival on their blog: http://tommckeanandtheemperors.blogspot ... ers-1.html

They're a pretty new band, and have a debut album on the way, but there is some stuff available already. Really great dark, beautiful, poetic songs with a dash of humour and a fine voice...

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:27 pm
by pablake
I'd recommend a Norwegian songwriter I've just discovered, Al DeLoner.

He was the songwriter in a reasonably successful band called Midnight Choir (get the Leonard connection?) but it is Al's solo work over the last few years since the band broke up that really shines. A good starting point is Volume 3, a stately album of pared-down hymn like songs, and then Mountains On The Moon, his latest which is a lusher collection with a larger band.

Despite singing in English, he doesn't seem to have much of an audience outside of Norway and Germany - although you can buy his CDs through Amazon or if you are a 7Digital customer and want MP3s log onto the German site (http://de.7digital.com/Search?search=de ... mit=Suchen) - I was able to use my UK log-on details to buy from there..

His website is here - http://aldeloner.com/

I sense Al's audience might be shrinking a bit just as he is hitting his stride as a performer and songwriter, but it is great stuff and really deserves a wider audience...

PS If you decide to get Mountains On The Moon I'd recommend hunting out the German 2 CD version - the second disc is a solo album recorded while he was still with Midnight Choir and is fantastic...

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:35 pm
by naf nehoC dranoeL
Jacques Brell is in my humble opinion LCs inspirator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82pjfaGWfuw

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:48 pm
by tomsakic
Wovenhand is touring Europe in November!
Nov 17 2009 9:30P
INIT {w/ Nancy Elizabeth} ROMA!...Italy
Nov 18 2009 9:00P
Teatro Rasi {w/ Six Organs of Admittance} RAVENNA,Italy
Nov 19 2009 8:00P
GALA HALA LJUBLJANA, Slovenija
Nov 20 2009 8:00P
Blue Bird Festival @Porgy & Bess {w/William Fitzsimmons, Laura Gibson, & Paramount Styles} VIENNA, Austria
Nov 21 2009 8:00P
Millenáris {together w/ Muzsikás!} BUDAPEST, Magyarország
Nov 22 2009 8:30P
ARGE KULTUR SALZBURG, Austria
Nov 24 2009 8:00P
TEATAR ITD Zagreb, Hrvatskia
Nov 25 2009 8:00P
DOM Omladine Belgrade, Srbija
Nov 26 2009 8:00P
Iz Kino Frosina SKOPJE, Macedonia
Nov 27 2009 8:00P
AN CLUB Αθήνα, Ελλάδα {ATHENS}
Nov 28 2009 8:00P
TBA Θεσσαλονίκη Ελλάδα {Thessaloniki]
Nov 29 2009 8:00P
BABYLON ISTANBUL, Türkiye

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:37 pm
by howthelightgetsin
I agree with Tom Waits and Nick Cave. I love the lyrics also of Jarvis Cocker as they are honest and thoughtful like Len's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5yR3InFX4k (that song is called 'Big Julie' which he wrote after reading Carson McCuller's 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - its a great song) and then his lyrics from his days in Pulp are great too - this one is called 'The Fear' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voRljnoc3K0
I also feel Mr E of The Eels has Len qualities too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtjmQ6Dwojs

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:13 pm
by K-Holed
One artist that I love almost as much as Leonard is Tom Mcrae. His style isn't exactly the same as Cohen's but some things he does share with Leonard are his self-depreciating humour and his rapor with an auidence. He's also not widely known, so it always feels like his music is aimed at me (This is how Leonard's music used to feel to me when I found him in my teenage years)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F09dZlnc ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRGe-wECTA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVwchQMP ... re=related

Tanita Tikaram

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:19 pm
by faithfully
Female version of Leonard Cohen - definively Tanita Tikaram!!!

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:27 am
by ScottSc
Bob Dylan's "Oh mercy".

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:32 pm
by sharik
1. Townes Van Zandt

Rake -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx4PsxUvMqY


2. Nadav Yama (me)

The Sign-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82np0Lj06ho

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:39 pm
by Myrtone
I don't know about all the other artists metioned here but Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen change around the music and lyrics each time they perform, I often wonder how other musicians manage to play along to either of them given how unpedictable they seem to be.

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:49 pm
by rmorgan
Two or three who have contributed to this thread have talked of the one - in the Western tradition, at least - who to me comes most forcefully to mind: Jacques Brel.

I am so thankful that I learned some French in school. With that modest inheritance, I'm able to take in a small measure of the import of Brel's intentions, some of the weight of his poetry. I found a "complete lyrics" book recently, in paperback, called "Tout Brel", published by 10/18 and available on amazon.fr, which I find to be of great help.

Brel's expressive singing is non-pareil. I find he most resembles Cohen in the songs on his final album, sometimes known as "Brel" and sometimes as "Les Marquises" (with the blue sky and white clouds on the cover), which he recorded shortly before his death in 1978. Check out "La Ville s'endormait", for example, or "Voir un ami pleurer". But many of his songs and records, particularly from 1959 - 1968, are comparably moving, dark, rich, satiric, poetic and spiritual as our LC.

One of Brel's very last songs, "Mai 40", is like a gaily-toned, satiric counterpart to "The Partisan" .. the Germans pour across the border .... and Brel's "Belgitude" is first aroused, and then crushed ... and, at the end, "the women become silent".

The 2-CD collection "Infiniment" is the place to begin.

Brel's sounds are magnificent. I find that his body of work stands strong together with Leonard's. But I guess that schoolboy French really does help quite a bit ...

Happy Listening!

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:59 am
by IMM
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine, I'd recommend at least a song to you, but my tunes are played on the harp unstrung.
This tune has some of the lyrical depth of Cohen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=671AgW9xSiA

Re: Artists similar to Leonard Cohen

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:55 pm
by nyHolmes