Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Additional InformationVan Morrison Decided to Revisit His Classic Astral Weeks Album on the Occasion of Its 40th Birthday.
Reviews"Morrison uses the performance to breathe new life into the songs with a band that can follow anywhere he leads -- jazz, folk or soul.", "The strings, flute, etc., are all present...The deceptively timeless fluidity induces a wonderful mystic fog..." -- Grade: A-, 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The album is still like nothing else in rock, a quiet union of breathtaking opposites: Morrison's soul-trance reflections on his early life in Belfast and the tension of the chamber-jazz arrangements.", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "By the time Morrison hits the guttural moans of the bonus track 'Listen to the Lion,' the songs have opened up like a source of eternal life.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "This is a tour de force, heady, joyful, ambitious, elegiac and -- as with the 1968 original -- unlike anything else.", 4 stars out of 5 -- “The singer is in fine fettle returning to his 1969 triumph following forays into country, blues and Mose Allison-inspired jazz.”
Recording TypeLive