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Astral Weeks Live (CD)

By: Van Morrison (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Astral Weeks Live (CD) Album By Van Morrison (Artist)
1   Astral Weeks - I Believe I've Transcended
2   Beside You
3   Slim Slow Slider - I Start Breaking Down
4   Sweet Thing
5   Way Young Lovers Do, The
6   Cyprus Avenue - You Came Walking Down
7   Ballerina
8   Madame George
9   Listen to the Lion - The Lion Speaks
10   Common One
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (p.55) - "The strings, flute, etc., are all present...The deceptively timeless fluidity induces a wonderful mystic fog..." -- Grade: A-
Blender (Magazine) (p.63) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]y the time Morrison hits the guttural moans of the bonus track 'Listen to the Lion,' the songs have opened up like a source of eternal life."

Review

Rolling Stone (p.64) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The album is still like nothing else in rock, a quiet union of breathtaking opposites: Morrison's soul-trance reflections on his early life in Belfast and the tension of the chamber-jazz arrangements."
Entertainment Weekly (p.55) - "The strings, flute, etc., are all present...The deceptively timeless fluidity induces a wonderful mystic fog..." -- Grade: A-
Down Beat (p.76) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he singer is in fine fettle returning to his 1969 triumph following forays into country, blues and Mose Allison-inspired jazz."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is a tour de force, heady, joyful, ambitious, elegiac and -- as with the 1968 original -- unlike anything else."
Blender (Magazine) (p.63) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]y the time Morrison hits the guttural moans of the bonus track 'Listen to the Lion,' the songs have opened up like a source of eternal life."

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The original 1968 version of 'Astral Weeks' is often hailed as one of the greatest albums of the 1960s, but at the time of its original release the songs were not played live due to a lack of promotion. '...Live At The Hollywood Bowl' is Morrison's first opportunity "to play the record live and fully orchestrated - that's what it's all about". Although not staying completely faithful to the original recording and changing the order in which the songs were played, the shows received unanimously positive reviews.

Title Note

Personnel: Van Morrison (vocals, guitar, harmonica, Hammond b-3 organ); Sarah Jory, Jay Berliner (guitar); Tony Fitzgibbon (violin, viola); Nancy Ellis (violin); Terry Adams, Michael Graham (cello); Richie Buckley (flute, saxophone); Paul Moran (trumpet, harpsichord); Roger Kellaway (piano); David Hayes (upright bass); Robbie Ruggiero (drums).

Recording information: The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood , CA.

In 2008, Van Morrison decided to revisit his classic ASTRAL WEEKS album on the occasion of its 40th birthday by performing it in its entirety at a couple of L.A. concerts. Fortunately, the event was documented for posterity. Accompanied by a band that includes a couple of the original musicians from the ASTRAL WEEKS sessions, Morrison digs as deep into the mystic as ever, stirring up a soulful, all-acoustic mix of folk, rock, and jazz that sounds as ground-breaking now as it must have in 1968. If anything, the years in between have only added to Morrison's vocal gravitas, and allowed the Irish troubadour to to dig even further into these poetic, richly evocative tunes and bring out their innate transcendent qualities.

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The original 1968 version of 'Astral Weeks' is often hailed as one of the greatest albums of the 1960s, but at the time of its original release the songs were not played live due to a lack of promotion. '...Live At The Hollywood Bowl' is Morrison's first opportunity "to play the record live and fully orchestrated - that's what it's all about". Although not staying completely faithful to the original recording and changing the order in which the songs were played, the shows received unanimously positive reviews.

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