Album
Astral Weeks
1968Rock · Music · R&B/Soul · Singer/Songwriter · Arena Rock · Singer/Songwriter · Folk-Rock · Psychedelic · Pop · Pop/Rock
A portrait of the artist as a young magician.
Tracks
- 17:03
- 25:13
- 34:22
- 46:56
- 53:11
- 69:41
- 76:59
- 83:19
About this album
There’s never been anything like Astral Weeks—not before or since. Parting with the straightforward, R&B-based rock of his past, a young Van Morrison embraced his love of jazz, blues, folk and poetry all at once. The thrillingly transcendent journey finds him mixing bittersweet childhood memories and in-the-moment reveries like a folk-rock James Joyce. His soulful voice soars over a constantly shifting, almost impressionistic landscape of fluid, jazzy lines, gentle strumming and shimmering orchestrations. The magic Morrison created here is as otherworldly as the title suggests.