Van Morrison - No Guru No Method No Teacher
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Artist: Van MorrisonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-07-14
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Got To Go Back
- Oh The Warm Feeling
- Foreign Window
- A Town Called Paradise
- In The Garden
- Tir Na Nog
- Here Comes The Knight
- Thanks For The Information
- One Irish Rover
- Ivory Tower
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Free Music Review: This one has become one of my desert island CD's
Hit: 5 Stars
It has been almost 20 years since I bought my first copy of the great, great masterpiece, "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher".
As time has gone by I have gone through the obvious changes that 20 years brings us; Travel, school,work, marriage, loss, pending middle age, not excluded et al.
Well, upon it's release, Van Morrison had been reaching for this body of work for a few years before. Starting with 1980's "Common One". Perhaps even, Veedon Fleece from 1974. bringing him through Jazz, Pop and lyrical indulgences that though hitting some fevered and brilliant moments were not fully realized until this album. He had struggled with his 1970's label, "Warner Bros and this was his second studio effort for Mercury Records. The change brought a revelation of sorts. A freedom.
From the opening, "Got to Go Back". The Van Morrison orchestral and jazz/soul pallette is being stretched and like the mist of the Irish sea, these songs flowed from the brush of Van's mind, pen, spirituality and his brilliant backing band. The acoustic guitars are in perfect balance with the electric guitars which are never intrusive. The sweeping string arrangements and outstanding piano composition/improvisation based on "feel" are nothing short of elevating. The whole band falls into a pocket that makes every track on this album a masterpiece in it's own individual standing and subsequently as a complete body of work.
Finally, Van's voice had changed by 1985 and matured to a rich, soulful, man's voice. Deep and poignant. His control and nuances of his always evident soul are placed in an almost prayer-like reading throughout. It is a wonder of an album and one which made me feel that in the mid-80's there was music being made that was the purest in the air. While certainly not the airwaves. "Ivory Tower" reached a few stations but, to not alot of attention. It didn't matter. It never has since.
This has been one of my desert island discs.
One of my top 5 album favorites of all time for the better part of two decades. I have been through one vinyl, and 2 CD editions and I have consistently introduced the CD to many friends as a gift. I'm sure it will continue in that capacity. This CD and the songs it carries are only one highpoint in Van's remarkable career. But, a gift it surely is. A gift he absolutely has and gave to us on this one.
No Guru No Method No Teacher Poster
Japanese only remastered SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing packaged in a paper sleeve and includes two bonus tracks. Universal. 2008.Longtime Van Morrison fans may prefer the Belfast bard's tougher, emphatically R&B-driven work, yet it's his lusher, mid-'80s output that helped him consolidate the scrappy gains made in the prior decades. The once-heightened polarity between the earthy and the ethereal seemed muted on albums that traded in a softer-focus, romantic mysticism mirrored by the expanded scale of Morrison's band and arrangements, and left room for him to dabble in instrumental compositions or his renewed love of sax and piano. No Method, No Guru, No Teacher proves among the more durable, convincing chapters in this era, carrying a now-familiar array of symbolic touchstones (the Celtic legacy of "Tir Na Nog" or an extended instrumental allusion to a hymn set to William Blake's musings on England) and offering two of Morrison's better meditations on redemption, "In the Garden" and "A Town Called Paradise," which echoes the fevered waltz-time trance of "Astral Weeks" itself. --Sam Sutherland
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