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Ich höre seit gut zwei Wochen täglich Van, auch im Hinblick auf ein Ranking bzw. Besternung. Ein paar neue Erkenntnisse habe ich bisher gewonnen.
a) einige seine älteren Werke gefallen mir besser als ich noch vor kurzem dachte, z.B. „street choir“ und „wavelength“.
b) es ist anstrengender, seine neueren Platten durchzuhören. Gilt sogar für „keep it simple“, aber besonders für „magic times“ und „pay the devil“. Selbst von „what´s wrong with this picture“ bin ich längst nicht mehr so angetan wie zuvor. Alles perfekt, aber keine Überraschungen.
c) bei Avalon Sunset und Common One konnte ich mich noch nicht zu einem engültigen Urteil durchringen. Bei Common One werde ich erhöhen, bei Avalon ist dies auch möglich.
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Keep on Rocking!Highlights von Rolling-Stone.de11 coole Zitate aus „Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier“
So klingen die größten Schlagzeuger ohne ihre Band
Welches Equipment verwenden eigentlich…Pink Floyd?
Musikalische Orgasmen: 6 Songs voller Höhepunkte
Dies ist (laut Fans und Kritikern) die beste Folge von „Friends“
Studio-Magier: Die 8 besten Musikproduzenten
WerbungAmadeus …erhöhen, bei Avalon ist dies auch möglich.
Unbedingt! Am besten auf *****…
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Der Teufel ist ein Optimist, wenn er glaubt, dass er die Menschen schlechter machen kann. "Fackel" - Karl KrausVega4Unbedingt! Am besten auf *****…
Das wäre ein doppelter Quantensprung. Die Ausgangslage bei meiner alten Liste liegt bei ***.
„have I told you lately“ ist ein hervorragender Song, aber die Streicher verleihen ihm einen verdammt hohen Anteil Schmalz. Naja, ist eben ein Album, das sehr nahe am Pop ist.--
Keep on Rocking!Van Morrison To Deliver A Complete ‚Astral Weeks‘ Concert
The Hollywood Bowl was where the complete „Pet Sounds“ concept was birthed,making it a suitable home for Van Morison to revisit „Astral Weeks.“
Morrison will perform „Astral Weeks,“ his 1968 solo album, at the Hollywood Bowl with a band featuring the musicians who appeared on the landmark album. Morrison used a rhythm section of jazz players on the album, among them the great bassist Richard Davis who’s now 78.
This event, being held Nov. 7 and 8, is being recorded for an “Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl” DVD. Like Brian Wilson did with „Pet Sounds,“ it’s likely a tour of the work will follow.
This clip gives you an idea of what he sounds like singing 40-year-old songs.http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2008/09/van-morrison-to.html
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Captain Beefheart to audience: Is everyone feeling all right? Audience: Yeahhhhh!!! awright...!!! Captain Beefheart: That's not a soulful question, that's a medical question. It's too hot in here.Michael Fremer hatte bereits die Gelegenheit das neue „Astral Weeks“ Reissue (Kevin Grey Mastering) zu hören:
Michael Fremer/musicangle
Some analog recordings shouldn’t be allowed be reissued on any digital format. There should be a law! You want to hear, say, Van Morrison’s rococo, acoustic/folk jazz masterpiece Astral Weeks?Well then you’d better get yourself a turntable and then you’ll be allowed to listen. Otherwise listen to something else. That’s how it ought to be with a record like that because you’re simply not hearing what it’s about on a CD and of course less so, if you’re hearing anything at all on an Mp3.
The original green Warners-7Arts first pressing issued in November of 1968 or green WB Keystone label second pressing were the ones to have, at least until this reissue.
Wait until you hear it! I received a test pressing labeled “Not final,” meaning those involved in the mastering (AcousTech’s Kevin Grey and Warner Brothers’ Tom “Grover” Biery). However, even if it was released as is, it obsoletes the original in almost every way.
The original has a warm, rich, atmospheric character that draws you into its dank, distant vibe. The shaker on the opener, the insistent “In The Beginning,” is barely present. The flute has little air, the strings are ghostly, the bass skeletal and almost ineffectual, the acoustic guitars stately, clean yet soft. As for Van, he’s caught in the embrace of a warm reverb. Whether purposeful or just the original mastering chain speaking, the production works; a fact made obvious by the record’s enduring status as one of the greatest albums of the rock era and the public’s continued fascination with it.
The wondering minstrel created the album backed by an unlikely assemblage for a Belfast youngster who had only recently quit the rock band Them and had a hit with “Brown Eyed Girl.”
While there were hints of what might come next on his first solo album Blowing Your Mind on Bang! Records (reissued domestically on Sundazed and in Europe on Speakers Corner), nothing could prepare the listener for the moody, syncopated, mysterious adventure Van created here with backing from a group that included MJQ drumming great Connie Kay (as MJQ fans have never heard him), flute and sax player John Payne, who may be better known for his work with Bonnie Raitt and the highly accomplished bassist Richard Davis, who’s played with jazz greats including Eric Dolphy (Out to Lunch) and Andrew Hill (Point of Departure), to Barbra Streisand and Bruce Springsteen, with a stopover in the classical music world of Bernstein and Stravinsky!
Free jazz drummer and Max Roach cohort Warren Smith adds percussion and vibraharp, while Jay Berliner, who played on Mingus albums Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and Mingus, Mingus, Mingus adds those insistent acoustic guitar strums and dramatic, strenuously plucked, some might say erotic leads.
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.
This is the tape for better (dynamics, detail, physical and harmonic structure) and some might say for worse (literal, spotlit, “recording-like” and perhaps almost brutally exposed). Morrison’s sibilants must be difficult to get onto lacquer and they will present tracking issues for some tonearm/cartridges. I heard them cleanly but certainly possessed of a great deal of energy that might shake some cartridges from their foundations or sound aggressive on some tweeters.
The slight reverb clearly heard behind Van’s voice on the original despite being buried in the murk, is less apparent on the TP so perhaps it was added during the original mastering? I need more plays to sort that one out.
Should the reissue team attempt to duplicate it or give you what’s on the tape? Perhaps that’s what they’re grappling with. Perhaps it’s something else.
Whatever the reverb decision and whatever the final EQ balance, Astral Weeks one of the great records of the rock era is destined to become one of the great reissues of the post-CD/analog revival era. Whether it’s one of your favorite albums or you’ve never heard it, Astral Weeks belongs in any rock lover’s record collection (even if it’s not really a rock record) and this reissue is (or will be) the one to have!
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Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...Klingt toll. Werde ich mir auf jeden Fall zulegen. Ist ja schließlich das beste Album aller Zeiten.
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Ohne Musik ist alles Leben ein Irrtum.Gibt es denn schon ein Erscheinungsdatum?
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How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?Endlich! Jetzt „muß“ ich mich mit Astral Weeks beschäftigen.
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ClauGibt es denn schon ein Erscheinungsdatum?
Die LP soll Ende Oktober (~21.10.) erscheinen.
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Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...http://vanmorrison.com/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=47f7fcb4488b05e0533094621a19a8e9
…so…Kinnlade wieder hochklappen!
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auf die Lps freue ich mich schon besonderst….
Da ich reiner Vinyl Sammler bin , ist es gar nicht so einfach alle Lps von Van zusammen zu kriegen..ich habe mal meine Bewertet..nach 1-5 Strenen…..
-Hymns to Silence 4 -5 Sternen ( allein wegen „Take me Back“ so großartig )
-The Healing Game 5 -5 Sternen ( mein absolutes Lieblingsalbum)
-Wavelength 3 -5 Sternen
-Best of Van Morrison ( ne best of bewerte ich nicht)
-You win again ( mit Linda Gail Lewis ) 4 -5 Sternen
-Magic Time 4 -5 Sternen
-T.B.Sheets 4 -5 Sternen
-Irish Heartbeat 4 -5 Sternen
-Down The Road 5 -5 Sternen
-Enlightenment 3 -5 Sternen
-Keep it Simple 3 -5 Sternen
-Pay the Devil 5 -5 Sternen
-Avalon Sunset 4 -5 Sternen
-into the Music 5 -5 Sternen
-Veedon Fleece 4 -5 Sternen
-a period of transition 3 -5 Sternen
-a Sense of Wonder 3 -5 Sternen
-Common One 3 -5 SternenIhr merkt ich kann mit dem späteren Van mehr anfangen……
suche aber noch ( auf LP )
Back on Top & Skiffle Session….
ACHSO…ich bin leider erst durch das grandiose Albm „Pay the Devil“ auf van aufmerksam geworden…
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@ bmh:
Willkommen im Forum! Für die Besternung der VM-Alben (wie überhaupt der meisten Künstler) gibt es einen separaten Thread. Schau mal hier:
http://forum.rollingstone.de/showthread.php?t=3808
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„Weniger, aber besser.“ D. Ramsbeatlebumhttp://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2008/09/van-morrison-to.html
Wow..das klingt fantastisch.
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Gib einem Menschen ein Amt und Du erkennst seinen wahren Charakterkleiner Tipp:
Watch Webcast of Astral Weeks Live This Friday
Fans can watch Van’s November 7th show live on Friday night at the KCRW website. The show will not be archived so tune in on Friday night!
und zwar genau hier:
http://www.kcrw.com/vanmorrisonlive
wenn man schon nicht live dabei sein kann……..
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Danke für den Tipp.
20.00 Uhr Ortszeit Los Angeles heißt dann Ortszeit bei uns um 05.00 morgens.
Zeichnet jemand auf?--
What's a sweetheart like me doing in a dump like this?
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