Various Positions

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instead of presenting me with the new songs exclusively on a Spanish guitar as usual, he had this dinky little Casio keyboard with him .

The Casio was a great discovery for Leonard because these machines allows you to put one finger down and have a whole band come back at you .In the interim, Lissauer had worked with Barbra Streisand, Manhattan Transfer, and had scored films. The album contains two songs that would become live standards for Cohen: "Dance Me to the End of Love" and " Hallelujah". You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

We tried to do that song with real drums and percussion but he liked the simplicity of the Casio and had become accustomed to it.The album was recorded at Quadrasonic Sound in New York in the summer of 1983 with Leanne Ungar engineering.

The presence here of the single finest version (by anyone) of what must now be his most famous song, Hallelujah, is, appropriately enough, cause for celebration. Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985). It marked not only his turn to a modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous Recent Songs (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited equally to Cohen as vocalist on all of the tracks. I've fallen in love listening to it and broken up listening to it, and then I painfully waited listening to it and was reunited, and it still was there crooning to me wisely about just how these things are and feel. Incidentally, there`s nothing in the booklet to tell you who is playing and singing with Cohen on VP, which is a shame.

The recording quality of all these re-released Cohen CD's is very good, and this one is no exception.