Various Positions

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In 2010, producer John Lissauer revealed to Cohen biographer Anthony Reynolds that the drum track on the former is actually from the Casio keyboard the song had been composed on: "It didn't even have audio output so we had to mike it up. The pieces in Book of Mercy were coming and I was, slowly, writing the album that ended up as Various Positions. Various Positions was Leonard Cohen's first album of the 1980s, yet was in keeping with the rest of his albums in two important respects: one, it sounded absolutely nothing like anything else anyone else was doing; two, it was a compelling reason for anyone else dealing in songs of love and its loss to wonder why they were bothering.

But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song – it's not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity.Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985). The song was further covered by Antony and the Johnsons frontwoman Antony Hegarty for a 2005 documentary, I'm Your Man. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria . Released in 1985 Various Positions proved to be a transitional album for Cohen, poised halfway between the classic balladic style of Recent Songs and the cool electronic backing of I'm Your Man. Although structured as a love song, "Dance Me to the End of Love" was in fact inspired by the Holocaust.

The pulling and the putting of the pieces together coherently, the being inside of that process and knowing, once I'd done that, it would be finished and I would have to leave it and go back to the world.I've listened to it during a million (full)moonlit nights and sung some of its songs aloud again and again (and then some)! We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.