Re: Playing with Cohen - great article
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 1:04 pm
You can see and hear Leonard & the band performing some kind of chant in 1979 tour film "The Song of Leonard Cohen" by Harry Rasky - maybe that's the one.Absent Mare wrote:Does anybody know about this chant?
I'd love to know the Latin words and the melody.
Ritual 2009
"We meet in the green room 15 minutes before we go on stage, everyone dressed and ready. It's very relaxed," Beck says. "Leonard has a cup of coffee. And there's a little chant we do, a vocal exercise, that Leonard taught us back in '79. We brought it back for this tour.
"It's three lines, sung, I think, in Latin. Translated into English, it means: 'I am a poor person. I have nothing. I need nothing.' Actually, we sing it in a round. It's very cool, and it kind of centers you a little bit. Sometimes we do it walking to the stage."
Some kind of Jewish chant is also performed on the tour bus in the movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOjTVCPBjY