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Blue Alert (album)

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Released
  
May 19, 2006

Length
  
40:38

Blue Alert (2006)
  
I Came to Love (2014)

Release date
  
2 May 2006

Label
  
Columbia Records

Recorded
  
?

The Sacred Names (2003)
  
Blue Alert (2006)

Artist
  
Anjani

Producer
  
Leonard Cohen

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Genres
  
Pop music, Vocal jazz, Adult contemporary music

Pop music albums
  
I'm Your Man, Live in London, Old Ideas, Popular Problems, Best Of

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Blue Alert is a jazz album recorded by Anjani, girlfriend and longtime backing singer of iconic Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen, who also produced the album and wrote the lyrics. Also on the production team was John Lissauer, known for having previously produced two of Cohen's albums: New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974) and Various Positions (1984).

Contents

The album was released in Canada on May 2, in USA on May 19, and in Europe on June 5, 2006, by Columbia Records. It debuted at #16 of Billboard's Top 200 Jazz Albums.

Track listing

  1. "Blue Alert" – 5:39
  2. "Innermost Door" – 3:16
  3. "The Golden Gate" – 3:08
  4. "Half the Perfect World" – 4:06
  5. "Nightingale" – 3:00
  6. "No One After You" – 4:09
  7. "Never Got to Love You" – 4:36
  8. "The Mist" – 3:08
  9. "Crazy to Love You" – 4:51
  10. "Thanks for the Dance" – 4:38

All songs written by Anjani Thomas (music) and Leonard Cohen (lyrics).

"Nightingale" was previously recorded by Cohen on Dear Heather. "The Mist" contains lyrical elements from "As the Mist Leaves No Scar", the same poem "True Love Leaves No Traces" is based on (see Death of a Ladies' Man). Later (2012), Leonard Cohen recorded his own version of "Crazy to Love You" for Old Ideas.

Personnel

  • Leonard Cohen – Arranger, Producer
  • Larry Corbett – Cello
  • Bruce Dukov – Violin
  • Danny Frankel – Drums
  • Pamela Goldsmith – Viola
  • Brian Leonard – Violin
  • Greg Leisz – Lap Steel Guitar
  • John Lissauer – Clarinet, Arranger, Keyboards, Baritone Saxophone
  • Jeremy Lubbock – String Arrangements
  • Lian Lunson – Photography, Video Producer, Video Director
  • Stephen Marcussen – Mastering
  • Michael Petit – Graphic Design, Booklet
  • Ed Sanders – Producer, Engineer, Mixing

    • Songs

    1Blue Alert5:40
    2Innermost Door3:17
    3The Golden Gate3:09

    References

    Blue Alert (album) Wikipedia
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