Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose
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Artist: Van MorrisonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-06-14
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Spanish Steps
- The Mystery
- Queen of the Slipstream
- I Forgot That Love Existed
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Celtic Excavation
- Someone Like You
- Alan Watts Blues
- Give Me My Rapture
- Did Ye Get Healed?
- Allow Me
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Free Music Review: Van The Man Reaching For The Best
Hit: 5 Stars
After the somewhat tenative No Guru, No Method, No Teacher Van Morrison followed it up with one of his best albums of the decade and perhaps one of the grandest achievements of his career. This album found Van reaching back into the flavors that has made his music such a treasure and creating a musical tapestry that will stick right to your soul. In fact there are elements of this album that do recall his breakthrough twenty years before this with the genre defying/defining Astral Weeks. The music is a mix of mid,down and uptempo songs with a strong jazz and classic pop flavor. This man is not only someone mindfull of blues/R&B but on this album is clearly bringing the breezy orchestral pop/jazz flavors of Nat King Cole and Burt Baccharach before him. Van plays piano,sax,harmonica and guitar throughout this album and on the back of the CD you'll find little pictures of Van playing these instruments. That is kind of appropriate for this album as it starts of with a lushly orchestrated jazzy sax instrumental "Spanish Skies",perfect for an evening at a really elegant cafe or night spot or just a stroll on a warm moonlit evening with a loved one perhaps. The likeminded instrumental "Celtic Excavation" showcases the same flavor and both tunes are significant highlites of this album. There are of course plenty of his classic midtempo celtic soul type tunes in "The Mystery","Queen Of The Slipstrea","I Forgot That Love Existed","Give Me The Rapture" and "Allow Me". These songs all have more of a jazz/nightclub type groove than anything on the more folksy influenced arrangements on the previous album and are very much a production update of Van's classic sound he made so distinctive for himself during the 70's. His version of "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" is actually a genuinely beautiful expression of the joy and pain of personal isolation and the arrangment here carries the song right along from start to finish. "Alan Watts Blues" is one of the more rhythmic songs here that actually has a light jazz-pop-funk flavor to it and in some ways recalls some similarly styled music on his 1980 album Common One. One song that stuck out strongly to me was "Did You Get Healed?". As soon as I heard the upbeat soul/gospel rhythm and the melodic female backup vocals I realized this is a song I heard many many times as young man played around the house by my father. It was'nt so much a nostalgiac chord that it struck but more a catchy tune I once loved and hummed to that has found it's way back into my life and now I know where it comes from. In terms of his output of this decade this album is every bit as strong and rich musically as it's fans say that it is and that's with no bias whatsoever;as you'll see I am capable of giving an artist like Van Morrison a lower rating when it's deserved for one reason or the other. But all of the songs on this album will reach out of the album as you listen to them and grab you into the experience with their fluid sound and depth of soul. And along with Marvin Gaye,Stevie Wonder,Minnie Rippeton,Miles Davis,Chaka Khan,Curtis Mayfield and Mavis Staples I cannot think of many artists I've listened to over the years who've been able to produce the same accomplishment seemingly at a whim.
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