... Experience at this unassuming CD. Here you will find none of his big hits, but musical and lyrical gems as the bilingual The Lost Canadien (The synthesis of personal feelings to Cohen's rootlessness and homelessness), its inspired by the Persian poet Rumi pieces (The Guests & The Window), as well as of , making the Recent Songs in my view to moving and artistically most perfect plate of Leonard Cohen at all his Zen Master Sasaki Roshi inspired last song "Ballad of the Absent Mare", which contains both a musical tribute to his beloved mother. The accompanying musicians are here at such a high level that even at this level no compromises must be accepted as in many later works Cohen. If I had to choose a CD of Cohen from my collection for the stay on a desert island, it would be this ...
