Kari Bremnes about Cohen: He gave a strong sense of to be seen – NRK

– It is a great poet and an artist who had the ability to touch people’s hearts, ” says Kari Bremnes Norwegian broadcasting company.

this morning came the news on Leonard Cohen its own Facebook page that the beloved musician has passed away 82 years old.

Bremnes says that she only met him once, but that he had a wonderful sense of humor and not least the contact with people through the music and performance of it.

a Bit like Munch

– He had an ability to create a sense of a covenant with all individuals. He gave a strong sense of to be seen, some related with Munch, she says, and quotes:

“I saw all the people behind their masks – smiling flegmatiske, quiet faces. I looked through them, there was suffering in them all – pale corpses as stundesløse rushing, running around along a snirklet the way to the end is the grave.”

SHELVES: Musician Kari Bremnes is one of them as shelves Cohen. She has previously covret legend on the plate.

Photo: Tom Melby / the Newspaper Nordland

– Sings for you

Dagbladet reviewer Fredrik Wandrup says it is difficult to dispute the Bremnes says about Cohen.

A WONDERFUL LIFE: It says Dagbladet, Fredrik Wandrup about Leonard Cohens legacy.

Photo: Randi Berge Svendsen

Cohen lived a wonderful life as a poet and questioning man, he says to NRK.

He tells us that Cohen 22-year-old made his debut as a poet, and from the poems came the music.

He had a style which from the beginning was so distinctive that you immediately recognized it as his music. From relatively early on he was a singer that appealing to very many people throughout the globe, ” says Wandrup, and adds:

He sings for you, and he managed also to transfer on the concerts.

Went to the hypnotist

Bremnes says that he in the a period went under the teachings of a hypnotist.

she thinks he got a lot out of.

He had a kind of suggestive, hypnotic way to communicate. A kind of ritual style, ” she says and continues:

The spiritual aspects were crucial. He spoke to us from that standpoint. The quest, he had all the time. He wrote, and went periodically in the monastery. But it is not a preaching of the gospel in something. He managed to bridge the old testament, urtid and troslengsel with a very sharp time and a sharp samtidsblikk.

MUSIKKLEGENDE: 82-year-old has Leonard Cohen passed away, after 50 years in the music service. So it out when he played a concert in recent times.

MUSIKKLEGENDE: 82-year-old has Leonard Cohen passed away, after 50 years in the music service. So it out when he played a concert in recent times.