Lembe Lokk - Songs of Leonard Cohen

TTT – Télérama: ‘Worth discovering urgently’‘Wild, powerful, organic: so many adjectives to describe the tribute to Leonard Cohen by Estonian singer Lembe Lokk. Joined by two fantastic musicians, who can be seen on the jazz, pop and traditional music scenes (François Puyalto on bass and Michel Schick on clarinets), Lembe Lokk revisits Leonard Cohen’s repertoire, stripping his songs almost bare, with a very pure sense of sound and raw emotion. Music that moves between folk, jazz and pop. An original tribute, deeply moving in its accuracy.’Since 2017, Secret Chords – Songs of Leonard Cohen has been forging its own path through Leonard Cohen’s work. Around a hundred concerts in France and abroad have gradually shaped this distinctive trio, in which Lembe Lokk’s voice, François Puyalto’s bass and Michel Schick’s clarinets reshape the songs to reveal their strength, humour, sensuality and poetry.

Since the autumn of 2022, the Sunset has become one of the preferred venues for this adventure. The trio is now beginning its fifth residency season there, after four years marked by encounters and artistic crossovers that have allowed this repertoire to reinvent itself constantly.

This new season marks a particular milestone: it celebrates the release of Traveling Light, the second album by Secret Chords. Across a series of eight concerts, the trio continues its free and deeply personal exploration of Leonard Cohen, somewhere between song, jazz, folk and poetry.

An immense repertoire, three musicians, eight dates — and each evening a new way into the songs, depending on mood, encounters and surprises.