Van Morrison | Re-Vision Radio ToS

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"Van Morrison is interested, obsessed with how much musical or verbal information he can compress into a small space, and, almost, conversely, how far he can spread one note, word, sound, or picture. To capture one moment, be it a caress or a twitch. He repeats certain phrases to extremes that from anybody else would seem ridiculous, because he's waiting for a vision to unfold, trying as unobtrusively as possible to nudge it along.... It's the great search, fueled by the belief that through these musical and mental processes illumination is attainable. Or may at least be glimpsed."

–Lester Bangs (The late American music journalist, author and musician, who wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and has been called one of the "most influential" voices in rock criticism).

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Van Morrison's Music: Celtic Soul with a Yarragh

"To get the yarragh for Morrison you may need a sense of the song as a thing in itself with its own brain, heart, lungs tongue, and ears. Its own desires, fears, will, and even ideas: 'The question really might really be,' as he once said, 'is this song singing you?' His music can be heard as an attempt to surrender to the yarragh, or to make it surrender to him; to find the music it wants; to bury it; to dig it out of the ground. The yarragh is a version of the art that has touched him: of blues and jazz, for that matter of Yeats and Lead Belly, the voice that strikes a note so exalted you can't believe a mere human being is responsible for it, a note so unfinished and unsatisfied you can understand why the eternal seems to be riding on its back."

–Greil Marcus (A rock critic and columnist for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Creem, and etc.; author, music journalist, and cultural critic. )