Van Morrison - Keep It Simple
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Artist: Van MorrisonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
- How Can A Poor Boy
- School Of Hard Knocks
- That's Entrainment
- Don't Go To Nightclubs Anymore
- Lover Come Back
- Keep It Simple
- End Of The Land
- Song Of Home
- No Thing
- Soul
- Behind The Ritual
Free Music Notes for Keep It Simple
Free Music Review: Just OK
Hit: 3 Stars
Keep It Simple is basically a mellow outing; some blues, some low key melodies, nothing that knocks you out. The stand out cut is Behind the Ritual, a song reminicing about drinking wine in an alley. Song of Home has a sweet melody and refrain. And Lover Come Back is a nice, almost plaintive song. Overall the song writing is pretty tepid, with many of the lines repeated within each song. Van should have really taken the album's title to heart and produced an acoustic album with some carefully selected new originals and some classic folk/blues interspersed...that might have been worth listening to.
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On April 1st, Lost Highway will proudly release Keep It Simple, the new album from Van Morrison. Keep It Simple is Morrison's first album of new material since 2005, and the first in several years in which he composed all 11 songs specifically for one album.In the interim the legendary artist had a year that may be unprecedented for any living artist, having released three separate collections of his hits, with the latest, Still On Top entering the UK charts at #2 and selling platinum, proving the ongoing appetite for his unrivalled work.
His music has always incorporated the widely varied influences he heard and absorbed since his childhood days on the streets of Belfast- long before the bands of his youth and his initial breakthrough with the band he started early on- called "Them."
On Keep It Simple, Morrison honors all those varied influences - Ulster-Scots Celtic, Jazz, Folk, Blues, Country, Soul and Gospel - and an added surprise of a mighty Ukelele -most times melding them all together at once creating his unmistakable signature sound.
In some of these songs Morrison addresses the propaganda of the myth perpetrating rock music world. There is a definite theme that recurs throughout the album, especially in the title track.
In keeping with that idea, Keep It Simple does not boast the big horns or expected string arrangements of some of Morrison's previous work. What it does feature are gorgeous songs rich with emotion, depth and beauty.
In keeping with the album title, Keep It Simple does not boast the big horns or string arrangements of some of Morrison's previous work. What it does feature are 11 gorgeous songs rich with emotion, depth and beauty. 'I felt I had something to say with these songs.' says Van Morrison. He explains his approach with the track 'Entrainment' by saying 'when you connect with the music - Entrainment is really what I'm getting at in the music. It's kind of when you're in the present moment. You're here with no past or future.' 11 tracks.
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