Just a little fangirl SQUEE!!! to finish my day
So there's this song. I don't know where it came from, but I've had the mp3 for about ... 10 years now? When I downloaded it, or got it from someone, it was labeled as "Leonard Cohen Dans Macabre". It was patently neither of those things, but it was a really fucking cool song, so I kept it. But here's the thing. Not only did I not know the name of the artist or the title of the song, I could not even identify what language it was in, so there was no way for me to google the lyrics. All I could tell was that it was vaguely eastern European sounding.
Well, this past spring, it occurred to me that I know someone who knows rather a lot about eastern European music, and has something of a facility with languages in that region. And when I say "I know someone", what I mean is that I have a massive fangirl crush on him. Yeah, I emailed Jason Webley about the song. Because I am just that sad.
So, anyway, he got back to me on it just a few minutes ago.
Mary,
forgive my slow reply.
this song is interesting. the cadence of the voice on the "ny, ny,
ny" part sounds VERY much like Cohen. and the range is similar to his
when he was younger.
maybe you've already figured this out, but after some digging I found
that it is a song written by an Italian singer named Jaromir Nohavica,
and dedicated to Cohen.
Here's a live video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBg1EJMhOY
Thanks for sending!
Wait, that performance was in Italy. He's Czech. Surprised I've
never heard of him.
Aha! He has recorded with my friend Michal Horacek!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strážce_plamene
*ahem* SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, this past spring, it occurred to me that I know someone who knows rather a lot about eastern European music, and has something of a facility with languages in that region. And when I say "I know someone", what I mean is that I have a massive fangirl crush on him. Yeah, I emailed Jason Webley about the song. Because I am just that sad.
So, anyway, he got back to me on it just a few minutes ago.
Mary,
forgive my slow reply.
this song is interesting. the cadence of the voice on the "ny, ny,
ny" part sounds VERY much like Cohen. and the range is similar to his
when he was younger.
maybe you've already figured this out, but after some digging I found
that it is a song written by an Italian singer named Jaromir Nohavica,
and dedicated to Cohen.
Here's a live video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBg1EJMhOY
Thanks for sending!
Wait, that performance was in Italy. He's Czech. Surprised I've
never heard of him.
Aha! He has recorded with my friend Michal Horacek!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strážce_plamene
*ahem* SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!