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''New Skin for the Old Ceremony'' is the fourth studio album by
Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...
, released in 1974. On this album, he begins to evolve away from the rawer sound of his earlier albums, with
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s, mandolins, banjos,
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s, percussion and other instruments giving the album a more orchestrated (but nevertheless spare) sound. The album is silver in the UK, but never entered the ''Billboard'' Top 200. A remastered CD was released in 1995, and in 2009 it was included in ''Hallelujah – The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection'', an 8-CD box set issued by
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in the Netherlands.


Cover

The original cover art for ''New Skin for the Old Ceremony'' was an image from the
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text '' Rosarium philosophorum''. The two winged and crowned beings in sexual embrace caused his
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record label, Columbia Records, to print one early edition of the album minus the image substituting instead a photo of Cohen. Another early manifestation of the cover art saw an additional angel wing collage added to cover the depicted figures, presumably to render the image more "decent". The image originally came to public attention in C. G. Jung's essay ''The Psychology of the
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'', where it is held by Jung to depict the union of psychic opposites in the consciousness of the enlightened saint. The sexual embrace as a symbol for this condition of psychic unity is also found frequently in Tibetan
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s (sacred paintings).


Track listing

All songs written by Leonard Cohen. Side one # "Is This What You Wanted" – 4:13 # "Chelsea Hotel #2" – 3:06 # "Lover Lover Lover" – 3:19 # "Field Commander Cohen" – 3:59 # "Why Don't You Try" – 3:50 Side two # "There Is a War" – 2:59 # "A Singer Must Die" – 3:17 # "I Tried to Leave You" – 2:40 # "Who by Fire" – 2:33 # "Take This Longing" – 4:06 # "Leaving Green Sleeves" – 2:38


Songs

"Chelsea Hotel", the precursor to "Chelsea Hotel #2", was only performed live and co-written by Cohen and his guitarist
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. "Chelsea Hotel #2" refers to a sexual encounter in the Chelsea Hotel, probably
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hostelry. For some years, when performing this song live, Cohen would tell a story that made it clear that the person about whom he was singing was Janis Joplin. Cohen would eventually come to regret his choice to make people aware that the song was about Joplin, and the graphic detail in which the song describes their brief relationship. In a 1994 broadcast on the
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, Cohen said it was "an indiscretion for which I'm very sorry, and if there is some way of apologising to the ghost, I want to apologise now, for having committed that indiscretion."  In concert, a prolonged "I Tried to Leave You" was sometimes used to introduce the band. The 14-minute rendition from the 1985
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even featured extra lines given to the backup singers. "Who by Fire" explicitly relates to Cohen's
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ish roots, echoing the words of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer and sung as a duet with
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(also Jewish; her birth name is Janis Eddy Fink). "Leaving Green Sleeves" is a reworking of the 15th-century folk song "
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". Cohen retains the chord progression and the words of the first two verses, but changes the melody and takes the latter verses in a different direction than the original. The song, and in turn the album, ends with Cohen violently screaming the chorus as the track fades out. On December 16, 2010, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles showcased a series of eleven commissioned art videos inspired by songs from ''New Skin for the Old Ceremony.'' The project was curated by Lorca Cohen and Darin Klein. The artists participating in the project were Brent Green, Alex da Corte, Wenston Currie, Theo Angell, Christian Holstad, Sylvan and Lily Lanken, " Lucky Dragons," Kelly Sears, Brett Milspaw, Peter Coffin, and Tina Tyrell. On April 14, 2011, the program screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.


Personnel

* Leonard Cohen – guitar, vocals, producer * Ralph Gibson – guitar * Jeff Layton – banjo, mandolin, guitar, trumpet * John Miller – bass * Don Payne – bass *
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– viola * John Lissauer – woodwinds, keyboards, backing vocals, producer, arranger * Gerald Chamberlain – trombones *
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– vocals *
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– backing vocals *
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– backing vocals * Gail Kantor – backing vocals * Roy Markowitz – drums * Armen Halburian – percussion


''Songs for Rebecca''

Shortly after this album, co-producers Lissauer and Cohen proceeded to work on its follow-up, ''Songs For Rebecca'', which was abandoned after one side was completed. Five songs are known from their live performances during the North American tour of November 1975; they were reworked and recorded few years later – two of them with Phil Spector for '' Death of a Ladies' Man'' in 1977, and the other three on '' Recent Songs'' in 1979.


Cover versions

"Chelsea Hotel #2" has been performed many times by other musicians.
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covered it on the Cohen
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'' I'm Your Fan'', and
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performed the song at the 2006 live tribute, '' Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man''.
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has also covered the song in live performances, as has Lambchop and the song features on their tour only album '' Rainer on my Parade''.
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covered "Chelsea Hotel #2" on her Australian Tour CD and has been known to cover this song in her live performances. It was covered by Brand New, sung by band leader
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. Kevin Devine has also covered it on his '' She Stayed as Steam'' EP. Meshell Ndegeocello covered it during a concert in Paris, France on 30 January 2011. A cover version by American singer
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was posted to her own
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page in 2013. It is also referenced in both the title and lyrics of
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's song "The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song." "A Singer Must Die" was covered by the
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art rock group
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on ''I'm Your Fan'', by
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on her 1986 album ''
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'', and by the
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featuring (former Barenaked Ladies singer)
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(a
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arrangement) on their 2010 album '' A Singer Must Die''. "Who by Fire" was covered by
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on ''I'm Your Fan'', by industrial band Coil on their 1986 album '' Horse Rotorvator'', and by
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and
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on Buck 65's 2011 album ''
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''. It also appears on the fifth solo album released by the Canadian singer
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in 2011, ''Matador: The Songs of Leonard Cohen''. PJ Harvey covered this song in the opening credits of the 2022
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series ''Bad Sisters''. "Lover Lover Lover" was covered by Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen, scoring him a minor hit in the
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in 1992. "I Tried to Leave You" was covered by Lera Lynn on ''Have You Met Lera Lynn?'' in 2014.
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released "Sun Hotel #2" which is based heavily on the original track on ''On The Possible Past'', a collection of demos recorded for their 2012 album ''
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'' which in turn featured a reworking called "Sun Hotel". The band Phish covered "Is This What You Wanted" at their concert on October 31, 2014 as an encore. Spanish folk singer
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covered "There is a War" (Spanish title: "Pie de Guerra") in his 2005 albu
Alivio de Luto
with translated lyrics. The English supergroup
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covered "Is This What You Wanted" on their 2016 sophomore album
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.


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