Recent Songs (Vinyl LP) Folk & Americana

Recent Songs (Vinyl LP) Folk & Americana180 Gram Black Vinyl Reissue with Download. Recent Songs is the sixth studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1979. It was a return to Cohen's acoustic folk music after the Phil Spector experimentation of Death of a Ladies' Man, but now with many jazz and oriental influences. The album includes gypsy violin player Raffi Hakopian, and even a Mexican mariachi band. Long time Cohen collaborator Jennifer Warnes prominently appears in vocal tracks.

Piercing through it all is the hypnotic spoken word of Nioke

Home Cooking keeps one foot in the hip-hop old school with collaborations with the returning Jungle Brothers (the party-starting Afrika) and Boston bastion Edo

Part of the musicians used to be involved in the prog band from Genova Struttura & Forma

the results of Andy's experimentation had been honed

With his handlebar mustache and booming baritone

not running away from it

grime and other sounds connected to the Afro-Caribbean diaspora

liner notes

purposeful statement of intent

Never released on 7" before

Originals on EMI remain highly collectable - one might set you back $4000

Its 10 tracks include the three new songs released this spring: the album's lead-off track