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"He wrote most of the songs for Magic Time and it's considered quasi-autobiographical. He's just like Greta Garbo and just wants to be alone. A reclusive celebrity not afraid to sing what he feels and to mix blues and jazz.
"Mmm. I love you, too, you know."
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Magic Time
Gifted but apocryphally bereft of chuckles, Van Morrison tends not to conclude his albums
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with a list of "Carry On" film comedies, a whoops-a-daisy have-a-go yodel and a self-contented chortle of "I'm havin' too much fun". Until now. Magic Time has bee...
Magic Time - Van Morrison
Gifted but apocryphally bereft of chuckles, Van Morrison tends not to conclude his albums
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with a list of "Carry On" film comedies, a whoops-a-daisy have-a-go yodel and a self-contented chortle of "I'm havin' too much fun". Until now. Magic Time has bee...
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Magic Time - Van Morrison
Gifted but apocryphally bereft of chuckles, Van Morrison tends not to conclude his albums
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with a list of "Carry On" film comedies, a whoops-a-daisy have-a-go yodel and a self-contented chortle of "I'm havin' too much fun". Until now. Magic Time has been touted as Van Morrison's best album in aeons. While this may be gilding the lily just a tad it's safe to assume - given the laughing-in-the-face-of adversity antics of "Carry On Regardless" and the jazz footsie of "I'm Confessin'" - that's he's mellowed to the point of miserable bliss. Every man's home is his castle and - as the passive blues solitude of "I'm Stranded" and the reclusive desires of "Just Like Greta Garbo" attest - Van pulled up the drawbridge some time ago. He sure aint working to anyone else's expectations (see the boogie of "Keep Mediocrity At Bay") but while Magic Time operates well within Van's comfort zone, tracks like "Celtic New Year" (imagine a folk soul "Midnight Train to Georgia") and the Latino cogitations of "Gypsy In My Soul" show that Van still has time for magic. -- Kevin Maidment
Advantages: fun danceable music Disadvantages: none really
...for a while, to that magic time…," he croons huskily, grabbing an imaginary mike from the air and reaching out for me with the other hand. Bemused I take it and rise to my feet where, while continuing to sing this bluesy ballad, he swings me over to the TV and pops in a CD from his back pocket.
"What's this?" I venture. "Not Sarah Brightman or Etta James, is it?"
"Hell no! We've got to keep mediocrity at bay so we're not lonely and blue and can ... ...most of the songs for Magic Time and it's considered quasi-autobiographical. He's just like Greta Garbo and just wants to be alone. A reclusive celebrity not afraid to sing what he feels and to mix blues and jazz. "Mmm. I love you, too, you know."
"I know, but you really looked like you wanted to go out with Jack, darlin', and I don't want to be possessive. We can see other people, okay?"
I wince into his neck as the song "Gypsy in my Soul" quietly ...
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Advantages: Fantastic chill out, sit back with a bottle of wine album. Disadvantages: Haven't found any, it's brilliant
...fan, but his new album Magic Time has it all slow deep chill out vocals as in track 1 titled Stranded, just sit back and soak it up. Track 2 Celtic New Year, is sung in a similar mood style as the first, then starts the more up tempo tracks such as track 3, Keep Mediocrity at bay, the track includes some fantastic harmonica playing by the man himself with a few Woo' Hoo's thrown in for good measure, this is followed by another up tempo song Evening ... ...The Lion This Time, Magic Time and They Sold Me Out are more Soul / late sixties style of music. The final track on the album Carry On Regardless, he mentions most of the carry on film titles and is heard laughing and joking towards the end. The song it's self is a cheer you up song with the message of keep going no matter what happens clearly coming through. The album features some of the best lyrics and music Van has written for a good few years, ...
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Album Notes: Personnel: Van Morrison (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, alto saxophone); Mick Green, Foggy Lyttle (guitar); Michael Fields (Spanish guitar, lute); Martin Winning (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Myles Drennan (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Brian Connor (piano, electric keyboard); Dave Lewis (piano); Jerome Rimson (bass instrument, background vocals); David Hayes (bass instrument); Liam Bradley (drums, background vocals); Noel Bridgeman, Johnathan Mele, Bobby Irwin (drums); Johnny Scott, Siobhan Pettit, Olwin Bell, Aine Whelan, Karen Hamill (background vocals).
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (p.74) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - \"[S]ome seriously astral Irish blues poetry, tributes to his pop-culture heroes and a lot of mellow, easy-rolling folk-jazz numbers...\"
Titles on disc 1
1.: Stranded
2.: Celtic New Year
3.: Keep Mediocrity At Bay
4.: Evening Train
5.: This Love Of Mine
6.: I'm Confessin'
7.: Just Like Greta
8.: Gypsy In My Soul
9.: Lonely And Blue
10.: Lion This Time
11.: Magic Time
12.: They Sold Me Out
13.: Carry On Regardless
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