Van Morrison - Common One
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Artist: Van MorrisonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Haunts Of Ancient Peace
- Summertime In England
- Satisfied
- Wild Honey
- Spirit
- When Heart Is Open
Free Music Notes for Common One
Free Music Review: One of his best
Hit: 5 Stars
You might be thinking that because this album is only 6 songs long and is a bit boring to look at that it's not worth peeking inside. You would be very wrong. This is one of Morrison's best albums, and two songs in particular are about as good as it gets if you are a true fan of Van the man. Summertime In England (epic and poetic) and Satisfied (uplifting with an incredible minute-long sax solo). You can definitely feel that this is one of Van's more improvisational albums, and caught somewhere between his 70s Moondance days and his 80s Beautiful Vision era, but it all works. If you enjoy this period of Van's musical history, you really should check this out.
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Easily among Van Morrison's least successful albums, Common One is probably also his least understood. Arriving in the wake of the far more concise, focused Into the Music, this 1980 project found Morrison making a sweeping left turn toward the open-ended, jazz-fueled vamps and spiritual questing of his impressionistic classic, Astral Weeks, 12 years earlier. The disc contains only six songs, several woefully uneven, and fans of his tautly constructed, soul-inflected '70s work could only scratch their heads, yet the heightened horn colorations and pre-industrial imagery of the opener, "In Haunts of Ancient Peace," are a signpost to Morrison's thematic preoccupations in the decade to follow. Even more seminal is "Summertime in England," which sets sail for the "Astral" plane and stays largely on course thanks to the horn section of Mark Isham and Pee Wee Ellis, and Morrison's own hallucinatory incantation to his bardic precursors. Without these brave journeys, Morrison's soul-searching '80s trips would have sounded far different. --Sam SutherlandJazz Music CDs
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