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"Moondance" is a song recorded by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison and is the title song on his third studio album Moondance (1970). It was written by Morrison, and produced by Morrison and Lewis Merenstein. Morrison did not release the song as a single until September 1977, seven and a half years after the album was released.
Moondance is the third studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.It was released on 27 January 1970 by Warner Bros. Records.After the commercial failure of his first Warner Bros. album Astral Weeks (1968), Morrison moved to upstate New York with his wife and began writing songs for Moondance.
"Into the Mystic" was recorded during the Moondance sessions at A&R Recording Studios in New York City in September to November 1969. Elliott Scheiner was the engineer. [4] The lyrics are about a spiritual quest, typical of Morrison's work. "Bass thrums like a boat in motion, and the song comes back to water as a means of magical transformation."
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Morrison first recorded the song in the summer of 1969 at the Warner Publishing Studio, New York with producer Lewis Merenstein.The track was rerecorded in the sessions from September to November of the same year at the A&R Recording Studios, 46th Street, New York to be released on Moondance.
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[13] [23] [28] [29] Johnny Rogan feels the song is "a failed attempt to recapture the spirit of 'Caravan'", [30] another Morrison composition inspired by "Gypsy Woman", released on the album Moondance. [31] Morrison sings the song in falsetto, [22] while keyboardist Alan Hand plays celeste, imitating a music box at both the beginning and end. [29]
As Morrison biographer Ritchie Yorke described it, the song remembered "how it was when you were a kid and just got stoned from nature and you didn't need anything else". [4] Morrison, in 1985, related the song to a quasi-mystical experience he had as a child: I suppose I was about 12 years old. We used to go to a place called Ballystockart to ...