Das Leonard Cohen Lexikon
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Title |
ZEN & POESIE – Das Leonard Cohen - Lexikon The Cohenpedia-Series Vol. I |
Author | Christof Graf |
Country & Year | Germany 2018 | Publisher | Schardt, Germany |
Pages | 508 pages, in German, pocketbook |
Notes | ISBN 783898418461 |
Summary |
Christof Graf's book takes the reader to Leonard Cohen's world, into his life, songs and poetry. All Cohen's 150 songs are discussed, as well as Cohen's life-long spiritual search. Graf follows Cohen to a zen monastery and later to Mumbai where the master studied with the help of an Indian philosopher.
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ZEN & POESIE – Das Leonard Cohen - Lexikon Band 2 The Cohenpedia-Series Vol. 2 Was bleibt ? Another Crack in Everything |
Author | Christof Graf |
Country & Year | Germany 2019 | Publisher | COD Verlag, Germany |
Pages | 423 pages, in German, partly bi-lingual (English), paperback |
Notes | ISBN 9783945329160 |
Summary |
In the second volume Graf discusses Cohen with Perla Batalla (who toured with Cohen in 1988 and 1993), takes the reader to Montreal and the Tower of Song Memorial Concert at the Bell Center in 2017, and lists a lot of facts about Cohen and his work. 140 photos.
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ZEN & POESIE – Das Leonard Cohen - Lexikon Band 3 The Cohenpedia-Series Vol. 3 Tourdates, Setlists & Spoken Words 1957 – 2013 |
Author | Christof Graf |
Country & Year | Germany 2020 | Publisher | COD Verlag, Germany |
Pages | 582 pages, in German, partly bi-lingual (English), paperback |
Notes | ISBN 9783945329177 |
Summary |
In the third volume Graf documents Cohen's tours with lists and 500 photos. "Spoken Words" is a section of Cohen's comments on the individual songs, stories of origin, backgrounds or comments on current events at the time.
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Title |
ZEN & POESIE – Das Leonard Cohen - Lexikon Band 4 The Cohenpedia-Series Vol. 4 Un Hommage – Reprinted & Expanded |
Author | Christof Graf |
Country & Year | Germany 2020 | Publisher | COD Büroservice, Germany |
Pages | 254 pages, in German, partly in English and French, paperback |
Notes | ISBN 9783945329184 |
Summary |
Volume 4 primarily contains the exact reprint of Un Hommage, a book that is almost a quarter of a century old (1993, more here). This volume is supplemented by additional, as yet unpublished, photo material. Volume 4 also includes an interview conducted at the time (1994) by Andrew Eldritch.
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David Bowie & Leonard Cohen – Das Leonard Cohen - Lexikon Band 5 The Cohenpedia-Series Vol. 5 |
Author | Christof Graf |
Country & Year | Germany 2021 | Publisher | COD Büroservice, Germany |
Pages | 383 pages, in German, partly in English, paperback |
Notes | ISBN 9783945329207 |
Summary |
"David Bowie & Leonard Cohen – encounters & memories as Vol. 5 of “The Cohenpedia Series” is a book about thoughts in the fifth year of death of two legends and the art to turn mortality to music and the question of how David Bowie and Leonard Cohen musically faced death. The book documents a few memorable encounters of two unforgettable pop-culture personalities through word and image.
This includes two conversations between the author and the artists, snapshots from the lives of "Bowie & Cohen", concert accounts from their last tours and album reviews. The presented texts have been partially or fully released from 1990 to 2020. They were not overhauled and view themselves as momentary recordings of their time, as a memory of an encounter.
To date, more than 400 mostly unpublished photos, as well as a timeline of both artists compliment the continuation of "The Cohenpedia-Series". An essay about the art of turning mortality into music and the answer to the question, how David Bowie and Leonard Cohen musically confronted death, complete the existing Volume Nr. 5."
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