Leonard Cohen: Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 5-10-1970 (FULL CONCERT, NEW TO CIRCULATION) скачать в хорошем качестве

Leonard Cohen: Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 5-10-1970 (FULL CONCERT, NEW TO CIRCULATION)

WHOA! I don't think I've ever been more excited to post an album than this one. If you're a Leonard Cohen fan at all, this is a must have. I think it's his best concert recording, and for all intents and purposes it's been unavailable to the public until now. I was doing some searching for Cohen material in order to post more BBC albums from him. I happened to come across some mentions that there had been some copyright extension releases of his music. If you don't know what that is, in the European Union there's a law that if a music recording isn't made public within fifty years of the year it had been recorded, then it goes into the public domain. So the record companies of many musical artists have released music to the public just to maintain the rights. They typically only make the music available for a few hours in the middle of the night for iTunes in some European country, hoping no one will notice. Then the music goes back into the vaults, so they can continue to own it without selling it. So what I read was this happened to some of Leonard Cohen's music. There were copyright releases for his music from 1967 (in 2017), 1970 (in 2020), and 1972 (in 2022). All the copyright releases for the acts mentioned above, and more, have been heavily bootlegged, but there was no trace of Cohen's. However, after doing some further digging, I got lucky and found the entire copyright extension release for 1970. For all intents and purposes, this stuff has never been in the public domain before now. I plan on posting more of this, but I want to start with this concert, because it's amazing. The great news is that the sound quality is freaking fantastic, all the way through! At times, it's easy to think these are studio versions, because there's a "you could hear a pin drop" type sound. And the performance is great too. (He played in acoustic mode, with backing vocalists and a lead guitarist, and not much else.) The only music that's ever been released from this exact concert is the last song, "Please Don't Pass Me By (A Disgrace)," which was a highlight of Cohen's "Live Songs" album, released in 1973. Anyway, that's the good news. The bad news is that the copyright extension release only contained the music. What I mean is, as soon as the applause started at the end of each song, there was a quick fade out that sounded jarring to the listener. Furthermore, that release included no banter between songs whatsoever. That's because the record companies only had to briefly release the music in order to keep the copyright, not the banter or anything else, so they released the bare minimum. That's a big disappointment, because Cohen's comments are a big reason to hear his concerts. However, I resolved to fix this problem. I looked for audience bootleg recordings from his 1970 tour. There were a few, but they all sounded pretty rough. The best of a bad lot was a concert in Frankfurt, Germany, which took place on May 6, 1970, just four days prior to this concert. I resolved to grab the applause and banter from that one and use it to fill in the missing bits of this concert. To cut to the chase, it worked like a charm. Now, you might complain that the music is from one concert and the banter is from another one, and it's true that is a bit weird. But if you don't like it, just get the version from my music blog (see the link below) and remove the talking tracks. The bottom line is, there was a lot of work that went into making this concert sound great. But from your point of view as a listener, it should sound seamless, a pristine sounding concert from Cohen's first tour that effectively has never been publicly available until now. 01 talk (Leonard Cohen) 02 Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen) 03 talk (Leonard Cohen) 04 So Long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen) 05 talk (Leonard Cohen) 06 You Know Who I Am (Leonard Cohen) 07 Dead Song [Poem] (Leonard Cohen) 08 Lady Midnight (Leonard Cohen) 09 talk (Leonard Cohen) 10 One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (Leonard Cohen) 11 The Stranger Song (Leonard Cohen) 12 For E.J.P. [Poem] (Leonard Cohen) 13 Avalanche (Leonard Cohen) 14 talk (Leonard Cohen) 15 Joan of Arc (Leonard Cohen) 16 talk (Leonard Cohen) 17 Tonight Will Be Fine (Leonard Cohen) 18 talk (Leonard Cohen) 19 The Partisan (Leonard Cohen) 20 talk (Leonard Cohen) 21 Sisters of Mercy (Leonard Cohen) 22 Celebration [Poem] (Leonard Cohen) 23 Diamonds in the Mine [Edit] (Leonard Cohen) 24 Story of Isaac [Edit] (Leonard Cohen) 25 talk (Leonard Cohen) 26 Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen) 27 talk (Leonard Cohen) 28 Sing Another Song, Boys (Leonard Cohen) 29 Travel [Poem] (Leonard Cohen) 30 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen) 31 Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) 32 Please Don't Pass Me By [A Disgrace] (Leonard Cohen) For an mp3 download of this entire album, check out this page at my music blog: https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com... The cover photo is from this exact concert.