Van Morrison

Van Morrison – Moondance (1970/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:56 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

Chart History/Awards
– Ranked #65 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
– Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
– Peaked at #29 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart in 1970
– Peaked at #32 in the UK

In the fall of 1969, Van Morrison entered the studio to record Moondance, the album that would soon become his commercial breakthrough and one of the most beloved recordings of all time. This re-release is a high-resolution stereo remaster by the original album engineer Elliot Scheiner.

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Van Morrison – Magic Time (Remastered) (2005/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:09 minutes | 644 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Ireland’s greatest pop singer/songwriter is back in action with his latest self-produced album, Magic Time,’ featuring ten new Van Morrison songs as well as interpretations of three jazz classics ‘This Love Of Mine’, ‘I’m Confessin’, and ‘Lonely And Blue’. Magic Time’ is Van’s first new album of originals since 2003’s Grammy nominated What’s Wrong With This Picture’ and is the 38th solo release of his illustrious career.

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Van Morrison – Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast (Remastered) (1984/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:10 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

“Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast” is a live album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1984. It was recorded from four live shows in March 1983 at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Morrison’s birthplace). The album was composed of songs from Morrison’s last four recordings. It is the second live album Morrison released, following 10 years after It’s Too Late to Stop Now.

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Van Morrison – Latest Record Project, Vol. 1 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:08:00 minutes | 2,79 GB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd

The veteran bluesman loudly wakes up the sheeple with this boring and paranoid double album, reminiscent of a dinner party with a bitter divorcee

Even a man as implacably opposed to lockdown as Van Morrison – who spent 2020 releasing songs rubbishing science as “crooked facts”, mocking people for wearing masks and describing the government as “fascist bullies” while also invoking the Berlin Wall – might be forced to concede it had its advantages. After all, it gave him the time to write the material for Latest Record Project Volume 1, a 28-song, two-hour-plus opus that allows him to set out his latterday worldview more fully than any previous work.

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Van Morrison – Keep Me Singing (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:40 minutes | 658 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Exile

“Keep Me Singing” is the 36th studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74 based on 10 reviews, which indicates “generally favorable reviews”.

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Van Morrison – Keep It Simple (Remastered) (2008/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:50 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Keep It Simple is the thirty-third solo studio album recorded by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison. It was released on 17 March 2008 (see 2008 in music) by Exile Productions Ltd./Polydor in the UK and on the Lost Highway Records label on 1 April 2008, in the U.S.. His previous studio album Pay the Devil was also released on the Lost Highway label, in March 2006. The album debuted at No. 10 on the US, UK and Canada charts and No. 7 on European Top 100 Albums. This album achieved Morrison’s highest ranking in US charts.

This is the first studio album of all new original material since his 1999 album Back on Top. Other albums released since then have contained some cover songs. The May 2005 album, Magic Time, was composed of ten originals and three cover songs.

The album features most of the various genres that Morrison has been influenced by such as jazz, folk, blues, celtic, country, soul and gospel.

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Van Morrison – Into the Music (Remastered) (1983/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:31 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

“Into the Music” is the 11th studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, and was released in August 1979. It includes “Bright Side of the Road”, which peaked at number 63 on the UK Singles Chart, and other songs in which Morrison sought to return to his more profound and transcendent style after the pop-oriented Wavelength. The record received favorable reviews from several music critics and was named as one of the year’s best albums in the Pazz & Jop critics’ poll.

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Van Morrison – Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart (1983/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 47:25 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart is Van Morrison’s 1983 classic. His final album for Warner Bros. Records is a primarily instrumental affair. It features Morrison’s trademark airy arrangements and mystical themes. Standouts include “River Of Time,” “Higher Than The World” and the title-track. It reached the Top Twenty-five in the U.K. This definitive outing is a magnificent blend of rock and Celtic melodies. Absolutely essential.

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Van Morrison – Hymns to the Silence (Remastered) (1991/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:36:02 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

“Hymns to the Silence” is the twenty-first studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was his first studio double album. Morrison recorded the album in 1990 in Beckington at Wool Hall Studios and in London at Townhouse and Westside Studios.

When Hymns to the Silence was released in 1991, it reached number five on the UK Albums Chart and received positive reviews from critics. Morrison’s use of various musical styles was well received, as were the more worldly-themed songs on an otherwise spiritual album.

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Van Morrison – How Long Has This Been Going On (1995/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:52 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

How Long Has This Been Going On is the twenty-fourth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, subtitles “with Georgie Fame and Friends”. The album was recorded live (but without an audience) at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, London, England, on 3 May 1995, and features a number of jazz standards and a be-bop influenced rendition of Morrison’s classic “Moondance”.

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Van Morrison – His Band And The Street Choir (1970/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:36 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

His Band And The Street Choir features the top single “Domino,” which continues to be Van Morrison’s most successful single within his solo career. The album also includes classics “Give Me A Kiss,” “Call Me Up in Dreamland” and “Blue Money.” Compared to Morrison’s preceeding hit album Moondance, His Band And Street Choir evokes a more relaxed sound.

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Van Morrison – Hard Nose the Highway (Remastered) (1973/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:14 minutes | 878 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

“Hard Nose the Highway” is the seventh studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). The album contains the single “Warm Love,” a fan favourite.

It is his second solo album to contain songs not written by Morrison. A cover version of the song “Bein’ Green”, usually associated with Kermit the Frog, is included, and a take of the traditional song “Purple Heather”.

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Van Morrison – Enlightenment (Remastered) (1990/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:45 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Enlightenment is the twentieth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was released in 1990 and reached #5 in the UK charts and “Real Real Gone” charted at #18 in Mainstream Rock Tracks.

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Van Morrison – Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:21 minutes | 878 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Exile Productions – RCA Records

On DUETS: RE-WORKING THE CATALOGUE, Van Morrison and the guests selected and recorded some of his songs from the catalogue of 360 songs across his career. Deliberately steering away from his more well-known classics, Van enlisted some of the artists he most respects to perform these songs with him to re-craft and re-imagine them. The album was recorded in his home town of Belfast and London in the United Kingdom over the last year, using a variety of musicians and fresh arrangements. The album was produced by Van Morrison along with Don Was and Bob Rock.

The album features duet performances with Bobby Womack, Steve Winwood, Mark Knopfler, Taj Mahal, Mavis Staples, Michael Bublé, Natalie Cole, George Benson, Gregory Porter, Clare Teal, P.J. Proby, Joss Stone, Georgie Fame, Mick Hucknall, Chris Farlowe, and Van’s daughter Shana Morrison. (Find complete track listing below).
Van Morrison is considered one of the most prolific recording artists and extraordinary live performers of our time. He has received a multitude of awards and accolades including 6 Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, an OBE, an Ivor Novello, has been inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and possesses honorary doctorates from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Ulster, as well as entry into the French Ordres Des Artes Et Des Lettres, all illustrating the international reach of Van’s musical art. Van Morrison has collaborated with, among others, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Lonnie Donegan, Mose Allison and Tom Jones, all confirming the breadth of his musical reach. His visionary songwriting and mastery of many genres continues to shine on albums celebrating and re-exploring his blues, jazz, skiffle and country roots. With one of the most revered catalogues in music history, his talents as a composer, singer and performer are unmatched.

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Van Morrison – Down the Road (Remastered) (2002/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:13 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

“Down the Road” continues the magnificent journey that George Ivan Morrison began when he first heard the call of the blues as a child growing up in post-war Belfast. In keeping with the open-hearted nature of his best work, “Whatever Happened to PJ Proby?” and “What Makes the Irish Heart Beat” hinge on candid revelations and tender insights. Journalists may tiresomely characterise him as obdurate, but with songs like “Choppin’ Wood”, simultaneously a hymn to working-class perseverance and a deeply felt ode to his late father, Morrison is the most autobiographical songwriter of his generation.

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