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Hymns to the Silence is the twenty-first studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.It was his first studio double album.Morrison recorded the album in 1990 in Beckington at The Wool Hall Studios and in London at Townhouse and Westside Studios.
Robert Tench (21 September 1944 – 19 February 2024) was a British vocalist, guitarist, sideman, [1] songwriter and arranger. [2]Tench was best known for his work with Freddie King [3] and Van Morrison, [4] as well as being a member of The Jeff Beck Group, Humble Pie, Streetwalkers [1] and Van Morrison band. [5]
Brian Hinton believes the lyrics in "Saint Dominic's Preview" are "the most Dylanesque Van ever gets", [3] while Peter Wrench claims that "Saint Dominic's Preview" "is, by some distance, the densest and most allusive songs on the record and one of the most striking in the Morrison canon."
"On Hyndford Street" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, and was released on his 1991 double album Hymns to the Silence. [1]On 2020, for Morrison's 75th birthday celebration, County Down-born jazz drummer and composer David Lyttle covered the song featuring actor and fellow Northern Irishman Liam Neeson.
Unlike other songs where Morrison has denied partly or wholly that the material was autobiographical, he has always admitted that this song is his answer to press, critics and fans about the demands of his life as a musician. He has explained that the song was "about these people who are non-producers, and who set themselves up as authorities ...
In the former, Hard Nose was listed as Morrison's only one-star album to date; reviewer Dave Marsh called it "a failed sidestep, a compromise between the visionary demands of Morrison's work and his desire for a broad-based audience." [18] In the later edition, Paul Evans called the record the "vaguest and weakest" of Morrison's 1970s output. [19]
"Recuerdo" (transl. "Memory") is a song recorded by Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin with Mexican singer Carla Morrison for Martin's first extended play, Pausa (2020). The song was written by Morrison, Demián Jiménez, Martin, Chiara Stroia, and Alejandro Jiménez, while the production was handled by Demián and Alejandro Jiménez.
Morrison booked the A&R Studios on 46th Street in New York City in the second quarter of 1970 to produce two sessions of songs that were released on His Band and the Street Choir. Reviewers praised the music of both sessions for its free, relaxed sound, but the lyrics were considered to be simple compared with those of his previous work.