Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing (2016) [24 48 FLAC] torrent

Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing (2016) [24.48 FLAC]

Genre: Blues
Style: Contemporary Blues
Source: WEB
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 1,500 kbps
Bit Depth: 24
Sample Rate: 48 kHz

01 Let It Rhyme
02 Every Time I See a River
03 Keep Me Singing
04 Out in the Cold Again
05 Memory Lane
06 The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword
07 Holy Guardian Angel
08 Share Your Love with Me
09 In Tiburon
10 Look Behind the Hill
11 Going Down to Bangor
12 Too Late
13 Caledonia Swing [Instrumental]

Van Morrison does exactly what he wants, when he wants, and continually mines the past no matter the cost. It's been four years since the Celtic soulman issued a collection of original studio material (Born to Sing: No Plan B), but given the music, it could have been yesterday. Morrison has no interest in innovation, he's already done that. The pace here is (mostly) laid-back, the music drenched in jazz, R&B, blues, and classy pop. He revels throughout in an elegant slow burn; his lyric themes are bittersweet, melancholic, filled with emotional and symbolic memory; his longing for the previous prevalent. The first line on album-opener "Let It Rhyme" is: "Throw another coin in the wishing well/Tell everybody to go to hell…" atop skeins of country and R&B as he reveals his recalcitrance. Celtic folk burrows underneath soul in the title track, as a trio of female backing singers, swelling B-3, and a snare undulate beneath his lyrics: "Keep me singing, a new beginning/waiting for my change to come...." A breezy harmonica solo adds a twist, but this tune reflects (musically as well as poetically) the protagonist in "Tore Down à la Rimbaud" from 1985's A Sense of Wonder, who is far down the road, holding stubbornly to a hope he knows (like his countryman Samuel Beckett) will elude him