The album is a sensory delight from start to finish. This allows Van complete freedom to focus on his soulful, stream-of-consciousness lyrical delivery, the results of which are sublime on giant masterpiece tracks such as “ Madame George”, “ Astral Weeks” and “ Cyprus Avenue”. That these tracks were, by and large, borne of freeform sessions, is testament to the quality of the musicians on-board. He didn’t use the phrase for a song title until a year later, but Astral Weeks was the album on which Van Morrison fully descended into the. Davis brought in his own supporting cast – at all times throughout this LP the synergy between the players is uncanny, most notably with flutes that could charm a king snake out of a chicken farm and a double bass which, without fail, seems to find just the right supporting notes at just the right time. The album blends jazz, blues, and classical music and offers an experience of lightness to being. Van Morrison's Astral Weeks was released back in the late 60s it stands the test of time. He had a background in jazz, and his first port-of-call was veteran bassist Richard Davis – an inspired move. The music Astral Weeks is just beautiful and wonderous Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019. Warner Bros assigned producer Lewis Merenstein to the project. After having been “tricked” into his first album last year, the Belfastian delved headlong into the mystic with this beguiling, dreamy, acoustic-based folksy extravaganza – closest yet to the album that he’d always wanted to make. Matrix / Runout R1-1768B 1377-B KPGATM B 964311-01 B 17774.2(3).
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