Duo performs a chilly rendition of “Who by Fire”
. The duo’s breathy performance adds a sense of desperation and urgency to the track, which appeared on Cohen’s 1974 LP,. There’s also a chilly element of mystery to the staggered way Orton and Skinny Pelemebe, who also goes by Doya, build it out into shouting at the end.
Orton met Doya earlier this summer when both artists were at Glastonbury. She introduced herself to him right after his set, which was just before hers on the same stage. “I have always felt connected to the work of Leonard Cohen,” Orton said in a statement. “I toured ‘I’m Your Man’ with an amazing cast of people, and every night I was intrigued by the mystery of ‘Who By Fire.’ I was never totally satisfied I understood the song.
“Climbing inside the words this way,” she continued, “brought the meaning of the song into new focus, the passion and heart-breaking inevitability of human nature that Leonard Cohen writes of like no other came alive to me finally.”during a Carnegie Hall appearance as a to the artist in 2016, shortly after his death.
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