Dear Cohen-friends
How wonderful would it be with this guy on the next Leonard Cohen Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX4-OMWCdCc
Peter
Adam Hurst
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Re: Adam Hurst
Thank you Peter, that was a peaceful piece to listen to in these turbulent times.
I certainly wouldn't say no to your idea but I do wonder how it could happen! Adam Hurst is a wonderful cellist in his own right! That particular song Sparrow, as does many of his songs, has a one word title which for some unexplained reason always appeals to me. In this case, I think it’s because that one word contains the essence itself of the music.
There are approx 100 of his songs with one word in the title, here are 30 of them:
Longing, Seduction, Alone, Elegy, Forsaken, Lament, Threshold, Remaining, Ritual, Return, Fragments, Wellspring, Chant, Reflection, Unseen, Beneath, Disappearance, Desolation, Wilderness, Wake, Festivale, Apparition, Absence, Obscure, Summoning, Possession, Incantation, Ruin, Dwelling, Nightfall.
And now listen to the first song on the list - Longing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peK6FOvSdNo
I certainly wouldn't say no to your idea but I do wonder how it could happen! Adam Hurst is a wonderful cellist in his own right! That particular song Sparrow, as does many of his songs, has a one word title which for some unexplained reason always appeals to me. In this case, I think it’s because that one word contains the essence itself of the music.
There are approx 100 of his songs with one word in the title, here are 30 of them:
Longing, Seduction, Alone, Elegy, Forsaken, Lament, Threshold, Remaining, Ritual, Return, Fragments, Wellspring, Chant, Reflection, Unseen, Beneath, Disappearance, Desolation, Wilderness, Wake, Festivale, Apparition, Absence, Obscure, Summoning, Possession, Incantation, Ruin, Dwelling, Nightfall.
And now listen to the first song on the list - Longing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peK6FOvSdNo
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Re: Adam Hurst
Absolutely wonderfull. I bought all his album this weekend
Come on Mister Cohen ask Adam Hurst to join your side of the force
Peter
Come on Mister Cohen ask Adam Hurst to join your side of the force
Peter
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Re: Adam Hurst
He's a good player.
Whoever is playing them, and it would be more than fine if it was the touring band,I hope that the next album has more ' real instruments' and less synthesized music.
Whoever is playing them, and it would be more than fine if it was the touring band,I hope that the next album has more ' real instruments' and less synthesized music.
Leonard's work resonates
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Re: Adam Hurst
I think he's too busy composing and playing his own songs .....but he already has the hat, the Persian rug and wears a bracelet on his right handpeter danielsen wrote:Come on Mister Cohen ask Adam Hurst to join your side of the force
See here when he plays Forsaken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlmPe335L2M%20%20
.... and I have seen some silver rings on his fingers in other photos and videos - who knows what they represent
Agreed, but it seems that it's the end result of the means not the means to the end that matterscohenadmirer wrote:He's a good player.
Whoever is playing them, and it would be more than fine if it was the touring band, I hope that the next album has more 'real instruments' and less synthesized music.
Leonard has said if the sound he wants is live or via computer that's how it is. He's just chasing for the most complimentary sound. Mind you, on more than one occasion, I would love it if that proved to be simply Leonard and his guitar!
btw... Adam Hurst also uses a computerised looped frame drum background on some of his songs.
He sets it here at the start of Four Winds:
https://youtu.be/0yBszKo71Zs
As well as the above addition he also uses a variety of other instruments to compliment some of his songs:
Piano, Spanish guitar, Italian Mandola, pipe organ, harmonium (pump organ) accordion, an Array Mbira (a hand-crafted modern musical instrument with a harp or bell-like sound) and a tanpura (Indian lute).
He has hand crafted a five string cello and calls it a Gypsy Cello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko70MrTb238I made the "gypsy cello". It is one of a kind. It is a full size cello neck and strings with a small body.
Adam Hurst's official site: http://www.worldcello.com/Though Adam Hurst's primary instrument is cello, his third and fourth releases show him to be an equally adept guitarist and pianist. On Dwelling and Ruin respectively, Hurst also proves himself to be a deft multi-tracker who records guitar and piano as base instruments over which his sinuous cello playing resounds. The two recordings are structurally similar with Hurst's preferred mode short, three- to four-minute classical settings of largely ruminative, sometimes ethereal character with all of the music composed by Hurst. He's no avant-garde provocateur hell-bent on extending the cello's sonic limits but instead an artist intent on bringing music of soul and romance into being. -Textura July 2008 Textura.org
The Adam Hurst story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A01QkU_jdg
It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to B4real ~ me
Attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy ~ me ...... The magic of art is the truth of its lies ~ me ...... Only left-handers are in their right mind!
Attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy ~ me ...... The magic of art is the truth of its lies ~ me ...... Only left-handers are in their right mind!
Re: Adam Hurst
Adam Hurst's playing and compositions are breathtakingly beautiful. It is so easy to imagine him playing with LC. Thank you Peter and Bev for the links!
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