Month: December 2018

“Today is the day to break free from the person you know yourself to be and step into  a self you have yet to know.Will it be comfortable? No, but  do it anyway.”

– Debbie Ford

Hard to believe it is half  a century since the release of this album. Excellent story from Spill Magazine on its background and creation. I marvel that Van was only 22 at the time. While not my favourite of his -I really have to be  in the  mood  for it  – there is a reason it is up there in the pantheon of rock albums critics’ picks;it is an ambitious and seamless record, melding different musical genres together into something special.

– Andy L.

 

ASTRAL WEEKS – 50 YEARS LATER THE STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S MYSTICAL MASTERPIECE In 1967 Van Morrison had himself a top-ten single with “Brown-Eyed Girl”. Today the song is his most well-known and can be heard daily on any classic rock themed radio station and is a staple for any bar band. However, the artist who penned it does not quite share the same views of it that the public has. Since it was released, Morrison has had mixed feelings with the song and has tried to distance himself from it as much as possible. In early 1968, the Belfast native moved to Boston with his then wife Janet “Planet” …

Source: SPILL FEATURE: ASTRAL WEEKS – 50 YEARS LATER: THE STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S MYSTICAL MASTERPIECE | The Spill Magazine

Minneapolis hardcore band Husker Du’s 1985 album is a classic, and I love the cover art. This is my morning pix homage to it.

In our invisible bond

we know

the underground stream

of shared sorrow

dark, closed in

but, more so, the new flow

a bright ,rising fountain

giving fierce hope

 

-Andy L.