Van Morrison - Magic Time
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Free Music Review: Van's on a roll... pay attention.
Hit: 4 Stars
Just about everybody on the planet at least knows the name Van Morrison. Who hasn't heard Moondance and Brown Eyed Girl a thousand times over the years? Unfortunately, there is a universe of incredible material this guy has released over the past 30+ years that is largely overlooked.
After some real hit and miss releases in the '90s, Van started to click again with his 1999 release "Back On Top". His 2003 release "What's Wrong With This Picture?" was perhaps one of his best in over a decade, but in retrospect was just laying the groundwork for this record.
Magic Time puts the rest of the pieces from "What's Wrong" together. Van sounds more comfortable on this album and his voice is as commanding as it has ever been. With this release, the rubber has finally hit the road. Let's hope the ride is just beginning again.
Free Music Review: MAGIC TIME - VAN MORRISON
Hit: 5 Stars
Magic Time should be Grammy Time for Van Morrison; if enough people hear it. I hope that produces a lot of appreciation and money for him. It is too much fun!Free Music Review: Van is "On"
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are a Van Morrison fan you will love this record. It is a wonderful recording with some swinging jazz tunes redone in Van's on way. there is not a bad cut on the record and it is full of the soulfull side of Van Morrison. I have recomended this record to a number of my friends. I have continued to play it repeatedly and enjoyed it a great deal. It represents all the good qualities of Van Morrisons music.
Alan
Free Music Review: 40 Billion Albums Later, He's Still Great
Hit: 4 Stars
I don't want to talk to the Van fans here. There are plenty of us, and we all already know that we want to own this CD. It's the people who don't know this that I want to talk to. I figure that there are literally millions of music fans who write Van off as the guy who recorded "Moondance" and "Brown Eyed Girl". Just to let you know, that's like saying Dylan is the guy who wrote "Blowin' in the Wind", or Muddy Waters is the guy who sang "Got My Mojo Workin'." Goddamn, you gotta pay attention to a guy like this, especially when he creates a great album.
"Stranded" and "Celtic New Year" kick off the disk and both are as hypnotically beautiful as anything I've ever heard in my life. A long time ago, Van figured out how to channel his muse in a way that is so pure and simple that it defies category. Little did we know at the time that "Astral Weeks" was only the first installment in a search for transcendence that would last Mr. Morrison (and through gracious good luck, us as well) a lifetime. "Magic Time" combines his obsession with music as therapy for the soul with his deep understanding of `soul' music (both the blues and the Celtic variety). He does both with a pure authority that, at its best, is unfettered by self-consciousness. We're talking about a man who can sing a standard blues progression and call it "Keep Mediocrity at Bay", then follow it with a blast of swinging blues that suggests Los Lobos on a really good day, called "Evening Train."
Sometimes, he aims wide and misses - "This Love is Mine" has the swagger of bad rat-pack swing, while "I'm Confessin'" has the same rat-pack vibe with an after-hours feel. I'd advise skipping these tracks if you want to maintain the mood, especially the latter, since it casts Van in the truly unflattering role of something resembling a strip show barker. The fact is, his is a restless soul, and he keeps challenging himself in a way that renders his misses simultaneously forgivable and weirdly fascinating. What matters is that he is willing to try, and his degree of artistic success surpasses virtually all of the competition, bare none.
So what if Van Morrison has released what seems like 100 albums so far? Who else has produced such a predictably good lifetime of material? And if you never bought a Van Morrison album before, I can tell you with some confidence that right now is as good a time to catch on as ever. If you do, then welcome to the club. A- Tom Ryan
Free Music Review: Love the melancholy
Hit: 5 Stars
Songs like "Stranded" and "Celtic New Year" are what I look for and expect from Van Morrison. I don't even mind his jarring change of pace in "Keep Mediocrity At Bay" because there is more deep meloncoly waiting for me. This is serious, deep down sentiment and he poors it on, and I love it. It's no wonder that the "jacket cover" is dark with heavy shades of blue. It's always baffeled me how Van Morrison can touch those deep spots of emotion in me without violating my sensibilities. These songs quiet me and reach for an inner strength. It's magic.