I remember Van Morrison on my first guitar teacher (God rest his soul) to have met in Bonn - he played me excited the chords of Cyprus Avenue ago that I first found not so hot. Then I bought the plate and from the day the world was no longer the same. I've lived with these songs and their existential moods and my poor environment was confronted with them or even worse considering them, who could let yourself fall and who is not. The many subsequent developments, especially the recent past and his often loveless concerts distant myself from him. So I was rather curious inquiring what he would have made of "my" Astral Weeks as well. This drive, this genuine creative change I had not given him credit for, and his soulful band! It is a stunning blend of almost exact maintaining some intonations and rhythms and simultaneous Development towards Well I do not know what I feel a swing, a little dance-like, yes Drifting. It makes listening not quite as deep as before, rather swinging-melancholic - a ripe become factory which has experienced its rounding in the best sense.