The album’s release has been trailed with a new song, The Goal, in which Cohen confronts his mortality: “Settling at last / Accounts of the soul / This for the trash / That paid in full. Particularly, it focuses on the visual representation of the feminine character appearing in his lyrics and its relation to the feminine presence of G-d known. ‘Leonard lives!’ they say, one after the other.” “What moves me most about the album is the startled response of those who have heard it. “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 Cohen. Leonard Cohen - The Goal (Official Video) LeonardCohen 1.24M subscribers Subscribe Share 782K views 3 years ago LeonardCohen TheGoal ThanksForTheDance Leonard Cohen - The Goal (Official. Former Cohen collaborators Jennifer Warnes and Michael Chaves will also appear. Thanks for the Dance will feature further contributions from composer Dustin O’Halloran, producers Daniel Lanois and Patrick Watson, the Stargaze orchestra, Berlin-based choir Cantus Domus and the Shaar Hashomayim choir who performed on You Want It Darker. Those included Javier Mas, the Spanish laúd player who formed part of Cohen’s band for his last eight years of touring, and indie music stars including Beck, Bryce Dessner of the National, Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire, Damien Rice and Leslie Feist.
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