More Leonard Cohen

As I'm reading Sylvie Simmons' excellent biography of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, I am reminded of this long-standing project I have of recording a tribute album of some of his songs. They have been such a huge influence and inspiration on my songwriting...Last fall I started to record some of the ones I'm planning on doing - little demos in my room and on my iphone...the sound wasn't so bad! Here is the first one I did, also the last one I learned:



The rest of them are on my SoundCloud page.

A poem

I will set down my rings

And bracelets

Take off my shoes

And stand there before you

Bare

of all necessities

My fingers through the air

Like wands

Rods

of destiny

Weaving a tapestry out of the small corners of time

Each gesture drawing me further into this palpable mystery  -

Gathering of stardust

Echoes of the wind

My body a transient carrier for

Grace

          dance

                     light

And the vastness of love

- Los Angeles, May 14th, 2014

Studio Time

Some photos from the studio, where I've been spending some time...and of my awesome collaborators: Yohei Shikano (engineering/production), Chris Carlone (drums), Daniel Seef (bass), Kaitlin Wolfberg (violin)- also on back up vocals, Bart Davenport, Rob Danson and Charlie Clark (not pictured), and on trumpet, Dayna Richards (also not pictured). It's brewing!...

All from my Instagram account.