A truly brilliant song to open an equally brilliant album. It was recorded at Century Sound Studios in New York during September and October 1968, and released in November of the same year by Warner Bros. And then there is Van's voice - still powerful like a loud saxophone from his days with Them, but here also finding moments of whispering softness and incredibly maturity at the age of just 23. Astral Weeks is the second studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. The musicianship too is extraordinary, somehow taking a main riff alongside a mixture of independent but co-dependent melodies you might find in a brass and horn traditional jazz band, but instead playing them on classical guitar, flute, double bass and other stringed instruments to create something that is also folk, but again nothing like anything before it.
He sought something new, and so indeed this song seems to be about rebirth, seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, and certain reaches another world in its extraordinary lightness of touch, elevation of mood and feeling. Van Morrison Astral Weeks on 180g Vinyl LPRemastered from the Original Analog Tapes by Kevin Gray and Pressed at RTI for Absolute Audiophile Quality: This. It was a true moment when Van found his identity, escaping the pressures of pop and rock that had come with Them, and after disputes and tensions with his former collaborator and label boss Bert Berns, who had died in 1967.
Continuing our astral theme, this 1968 masterpiece by the Belfast artist was the opener his second solo album.
A progression from yesterday's otherworldly Flaming Lips to an altogether different place and time.
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