Re: CONCERT REPORT: Zagreb, Croatia, July 25, 2010
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:26 am
Sturgess many thanks for the pictures and latest news.
Marina
Marina
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jasmina/r wrote:We just come home from the best concert in my life![]()
More words tomorrow.
Now I must be with myself for little time
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kljove - Leonard Cohen was fabulous. the man is 75 years old and was onstage for 2 and a half hours, and they played six songs on encore. kljove
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Great photos, Paul! Thank you so much for uploading them so quickly. I liked the way you tagged the pics. It was nice to see Tom, Dino F, Albert and Marie. It looks like Albert had a great seat, so we can look forward to more masterful concert videos.Paul Zagreb wrote:Great evening ... set list - I guess - conservative - no new songs but nice to hear Heart with no Companion followed by Waiting for the Miracle in the first set .... and Famous Blue Raincoat in the encores. Whatever else can be said ... Leonard is back and he and the band are in great form!
Pictures here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 ... =818237969
Paul
http://leonardcohen.tumblr.com/post/858 ... ged-out-ofThe shows over and the band has changed out of wardrobe and slowly make their way to the hotel amid post-show traffic. There is a sanguine quiet in the van and everyone is in good spirits.
Next stop Salzburg.
— Zagreb, Croatia
tomsakic wrote:Leading newspapers: http://www.jutarnji.hr/bozanski-glas--c ... en/849794/
Special mention: "brilliant Javier Mas" and "pristine sound system, unbelievable for this venue, maybe the best ever on any concert in Croatia".
Divine voice: Cohen's deep poetic performance was truly magnificent
ZAGREB - While in Zagreb, appeared the first time, nearly four and a half decades since the 33- year-old singer released debut album " Songs Of Leonard Cohen " (1967) , one of the largest and most respected poets of popular music came to us on a wave of renewed interest in His songs and his career , thanks to her comeback tour - after fifteen years of absence from the scene - taken for emptying bank accounts by former manageress and the brilliant double album "Live In London " . Who listened to this album or watching a DVD with the same performance, recorded 17th July 2008. at London's O2 Arena knew what to expect in Zagreb Arena , and whatever is due Cohen arrived in Zagreb , briefly interrupted or returned from the annual or shifted oldazak the same , definitely not wrong.
Despite the end of the recently unbelievably hot July, the Arena was filled with more than a solid audience in the concert from the beginning salvo of applause and loud cries of delight greeted each song a great poet , his hat Gospodske kindness , gratitude for the warm reception and Announcements playlist. Accompanied by a perfectly coordinated ensemble , in which particularly brilliant guitarist Javier Mas from Barcelona, while the trio of accompanying a singer led a longtime associate of Cohen and co-author of some of his best songs Sharon Robinson, Cohen is a sovereign " commanded " the well-known songs - from the first " You Can Dance The End Of Love " prophetic "The Future "over the "Bird on a Wire , Everybody Knows, "In My Secret Life " and " Who By Fire " and "Tower of Song , "" Suzanne , "" Hallelujah , "" So Long Marianne "and other " eternal melodies "great bard.
Cohen's voice today is even deeper than before , and today it really sounds like " the old sage , " but in fact it is very hearty , occasionally even witty and cheerful " gaffer "in the enviable voice and physical fitness , especially for someone who has for years suffered from depression which is often emptied into love , and those other songs. Maybe it's a matter of personal taste , but just as well as other songs from the cynical comments of "democracy "," future "and "politics "- perhaps because of the time in which we listened to them live in Zagreb, the moment in which everything around us is broken , disintegrates and decay - have impressed me more than Cohenovih compositions , even when they are not , the audience that it has no right to blame anyone seen such a large outpouring of romantic charmer . The verses which he wrote at the beginning of the 90s on " The Future " - " Please give me the Berlin Wall , come to me Stalin and St. Paul / I've seen the future brother , it is murder / things slide , slide in all directions / Will not be nothing , Nothing that could be measured "- really looks like a prophetic vision of the world without firm standards and ideals in which no one knows what the left and the right, which right and what is wrong.
Although at first glance, Arena is not a " natural " miles to the Pacific and intimate performance by singer-songwriter who does not build on stage acrobatics, deafening and pirotehnici razaglasu but on a personal immediacy, a musical celebration and decentnosti songs, Cohen had no trouble mastering these , quite a large space . Indeed, the crystal- clear sound - a long time nobody had tak odobar sound at concerts in the country - each Cohenovog tone of voice, each note rezonirali musicians have a special atmosphere and feel . Although absolutely classic, and even a bit old fashioned - especially compared to concerts of modern pop stars - Cohen's poetic , profound, but the chivalrous and charming performance was truly magnificent, both because Cohenovog "divine "voice , but also because of subtle stylistic changes in the composition of the accompanying range of American musical idioms like country music through the atmosphere šansonjerskog to klezmer , Mediterranean and Arabian ornaments. The irony of fate, but that it was manageress opelješila probably never would have enjoyed in perfect concert Cohen Zagreb.
In addition , Cohen came to Zagreb a month and a half after a very impressive " apparition " Bob Dylan Salata, and the reason for the comparison and scenic dojmljivost two great poets were quite. Tastes aside, we witnessed a large and important concerts for the "mature " audiences and remains to conclude that Dylan and Cohen played a very impressive 1-1 at the end of another wealthy Zagreb and Croatian concert season . In short , the greatest poets of popular music for the first time in Zagreb came in later years, but not too late not to provide a truly beautiful and memorable concerts.