Van Morrison - Enlightenment
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Artist: Van MorrisonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-19
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Real Real Gone
- Enlightenment
- So Quiet In Here
- Avalon Of The Heart
- See Me Through
- Youth Of 1,000 Summers
- In The Days Before Rock 'n' Roll
- Start All Over Again
- She's My Baby
- Memories
Free Music Notes for Enlightenment
Free Music Review: If you're Van Morrison, 1990 could just as well be 1970
Hit: 5 Stars
Like his legendary UK counterpart Elton John, Van Morrison has sustained an extremely lengthy career during which he's made few, if any, bad songs. This release from 1990 is aptly titled, since some people consider Van Morrison's 80s work to be more spiritually depressed. His voice is as strong as it was in his "Brown-Eyed Girl" days, and his minimal use of modernized recording styles make this album sound like it could have been made at any time during his career. Perhaps the best track is the intensely melodic and hummable "Start All Over Again" which is also aptly titled since his spirit seems newly revitalized throughout this album.
Enlightenment Poster
Its title seems squarely in the pilgrim's camp, where much of Van Morrison's '80s music dwells, but 1990's Enlightenment offsets new glimpses of Morrison's oft-sought Avalon ("Avalon of the Heart") with darker confessions of human frailty and challenged faith. The opening "Real Real Gone" belies its hard-charging R&B verve (a welcome return to high-octane soul after his relatively becalmed, then-recent work) with admissions of weakness, and even the lyrical title song reveals confusion more than salvation. A few years later, such defeats might have prompted one of his crankier outbursts, but this set is brightened by the joyful reminiscences of "Youth of 1,000 Summers" and the epic "In the Days Before Rock 'n' Roll," in which Morrison's declamatory fervor is matched by poet Paul Durcan. The latter song is a gloriously apt Morrison moment, exulting in Little Richard as though he walked the same astral plane as William Blake--which, in Morrison's world, is exactly the point. --Sam SutherlandFolk Music CDs
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