Ten years after the passing of the Canadian singer, songwriter and poet with the deep, dark voice, Geert Bouckaert (vocals, guitar, ukulele, harmonica and stompbox) and Liselotte Van Dooren (vocals, violin, piano and melodica) bring his greatest successes back to life in a unique acoustic setting and a warm, intimate atmosphere.
Featured songs include Hallelujah, Suzanne, Dance Me to the End of Love, I’m Your Man, First We Take Manhattan, as well as the songs he wrote together with Sharon Robinson, such as Boogie Street, up to his artistic testament Happens to the Heart.
Between the songs, Bouckaert—armed with a sharp sense of pitch-black humor, also characteristic of Cohen himself—dives deep into the singer’s rich life and reflects on the different ways in which the godfather of gloom tried to overcome his innate melancholy: first with tons of drugs and rivers of alcohol, later with a cartload of antidepressants, throughout his life with various religions and philosophies, but above all with many, many women.
