Adam Cohen to release new album
Three years ago and three albums into a career that began with his 1998 self-titled debut, Adam Cohen – son of Leonard Cohen – decided to call time on career in the music business. Talked back into giving it another go, he released his biggest album to date. “Like A Man” (2011)
In a break between concerts, he went into the studio and emerged with a new album, which he scrapped. Cohen said,
I realized that I needed desperate measures to keep me honest and also to relieve me of the anxiety of following up the only successful record I’ve ever made. However deliciously I had been in orbit, touring with that record, I needed to tap into something more terrestrial, more rooted and real.”
“We Go Home”, Cohen’s fifth album, was homemade. Since the band was playing in Europe, Adam set up in a house on the Greek island of Hydra where he spent much of his childhood.
Making an album in the comfort of home on makeshift equipment with this band of touring musicians who had become my family immediately offered a beacon of hope that no studio, or session players or priceless gear ever could.”They continued recording in Montreal, where Adam was born, in the house where he spent his earliest years. “I knew I was painting a target on my back, making my album in the so-called homes of Leonard Cohen, but they’re my homes too. These are the walls that saw me grow up the most and that I needed to come back to. My muse is my home.
I want the songs to speak for themselves”, says Cohen, “but what I can say is that the songs on this record mostly chronicle conversations I’ve either had with my old man, or want to have with my boy”, Adam’s seven-year-old son Cassius, “and a few conversations I’m having with myself. And, of course, there are love songs.
My last album was about me finally claiming my belonging to a tradition and finding my voice within that tradition. My new album,” Adam Cohen states, “is about me raising my voice.”
“We Go Home” is released in September. Adam Cohen’s European tour, featuring the band and string section, begins in Denmark, finishing at London’s Bush Hall on 15 October.
“We Go Home” is out on 15 September through Cooking Vinyl.
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Three years ago and three albums into a career that began with his 1998 self-titled debut, Adam Cohen – son of Leonard Cohen – decided to call time on career in the music business. Talked back into giving it another go, he released his biggest album to date. “Like A Man” (2011)
In a break between concerts, he went into the studio and emerged with a new album, which he scrapped. Cohen said,
“We Go Home”, Cohen’s fifth album, was homemade. Since the band was playing in Europe, Adam set up in a house on the Greek island of Hydra where he spent much of his childhood.
“We Go Home” is released in September. Adam Cohen’s European tour, featuring the band and string section, begins in Denmark, finishing at London’s Bush Hall on 15 October.
“We Go Home” is out on 15 September through Cooking Vinyl.
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