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“Van Morrison is interested,\u00a0obsessed <\/em>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. Sometimes he gives it to you through silence, by choking off the song in midflight: ‘It’s too late to stop now!’.<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n –Lester Bangs,\u00a0“<\/em>Astral Weeks,” in\u00a0Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island<\/em>, ed. Greil Marcus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Van Morrison is interested,\u00a0obsessed 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 … Continue reading