Morrison, Van - Inarticulate Speech

New Vinyl Record - Van Morrison, Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart

Vinyl LP repressing of this 1983 album from the legendary Irish singer/songwriter. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart is the fourteenth studio album by Van Morrison. Morrison said he arrived at the title from a Shavian saying: "that idea of communicating with as little articulation as possible, at the same time being emotionally articulate". As his last album for Warner Bros. Records, he decided to do an album of mostly instrumentals. As he explained in 1984, "Sometimes when I'm playing something, I'm just sort of humming along with it, and that's got a different vibration than an actual song. So the instrumentals just come from trying to get that form of expression, which is not the same as writing a song." Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns in 1967. After Berns' death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially a poor seller; Moondance (1970), however, established Morrison as a major artist, and he built on his reputation throughout the 1970s with a series of acclaimed albums and live performances.

• - Side 1 -
• 1 Higher Than the World
• 2 Connswater
• 3 River of Time
• 4 Celtic Swing
• 5 Rave on, John Donne
• - Side 2 -
• 1 Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, No. 1
• 2 Irish Heartbeat
• 3 The Street Only Knew Your Name
• 4 Cry for Home
• 5 Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, No. 2
• 6 September Night