It's been three years since we lost Leonard Cohen, but his music lives on through his son, Adam. Father and son had worked together on the 2016 album You Want It Darker, and at his father's request, Adam fleshed out some leftover sketches of songs with the help of Beck, Feist, Damien Rice, The National’s Bryce Dessner, and more. The results appear on the forthcoming full-length Thanks For The Dance, out November 22nd via Columbia/Legacy.
“In composing and arranging the music for his words, we chose his most characteristic musical signatures, in this way keeping him with us,” said Adam in a press release. “What moves me most about the album is the startled response of those who have heard it. ‘Leonard lives’! they say, one after the other.”
Today, they share the single “Happens to the Heart” via a video directed by Daniel Askill. “I wanted to make something that spoke to Leonard’s years as a zen monk,” Askill said in a statement. “This film is a quiet, symbolic narrative that charts the letting go of ego and the trappings of fame.”
2016 continues to take so much away from us. Today, the world mourns the death of a ladies' man, Leonard Cohen, at age 82. His Facebook page reports:
