Van Morrison Astral Weeks on 180g Vinyl LP

Remastered from the Original Analog Tapes by Kevin Gray at Acoustech and Pressed at RTI

True Audiophile-Quality In Every Way

Guaranteed to Beat Any Other Pressing You've Heard

Moondance and His Band and the Street Choir Also Available on Remastered 180g LP

Van Morrison's 1968 release, Astral Weeks remains not only his masterpiece, but one of the greatest records ever made. The haunting, deeply personal collection of impressionistic folk styled epics was recorded with an all-star jazz backing unit that included bassist Richard Davis and drummer Connie May and its absolutely awash in overwhelming emotional beauty. The poetic complexity of the material combined with Morrison's vocal dexterity and passion make it one of those rare albums for which the word timeless is not only appropriate but inescapable.

And now, after decades of waiting, it finally sounds like it should:

"When you hear the new reissue, even if you've heard the original 100 times since it first came out, which would easily be me, you will almost jump out of your seat when you hear these familiar elements move from the shadows to the foreground. Van sounds almost introspective and delicate on the original. The reissue reveals powerful vocal dynamics within which get revealed subtle, heretofore hidden emotional nuances and instant, immediately communicated revelations as they seem to travel from Van's mind into his vocal chords and from there into the microphone's diaphragm. There are shimmering finger cymbals on 'Sweet Thing' that I've heard I don't know how many times but suddenly here they float into the room on the exquisitely captured transient hit and decay delicately and for what seems like a really long time before disappearing. 'Cyprus Avenue' begins with a distant guitar strum above audible tape hiss when suddenly Berliner hits one strum that startlingly leaps from the speakers, almost creating a shockwave. Davis' bass plucks are finally allowed full flower, revealing a muscular expressiveness heretofore hidden in the original's echoey atmosphere." --Michael Fremer, MusicAngle.com

Van Morrison Astral Weeks Track Listing:

1. Astral Weeks
2. Beside You
3. Sweet Thing
4. Cyprus Avenue
5. The Way Young Lovers Do
6. Madame George
7. Ballerina
8. Slim Slow Slider