VAN MORRISON : ASTRAL WEEKS LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL : THE CONCERT FILM

  1. Astral Weeks/I Believe I've Transcended
  2. Beside You
  3. Slim Slow Slider/I Start Breaking Down
  4. Sweet Thing
  5. The Way Young Lovers Do
  6. Cyprus Avenue/You Came Walking Down
  7. Ballerina
  8. Madame George
  9. Listen to the Lion/The Lion Speaks
    Bonus :
  10. Common One
  11. Gloria

Label : Listen To The Lion Records

Release Year : May 19, 2009

Running Time : 80 minutes

NTSC : 16:9

Venue : Hollywood Bow, Los Angeles, California, USA

Recording Date : November 7 - 8, 2008

Review (Wikipedia) : Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl: The Concert Film is the second official DVD by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was released May 19, 2009. It features the songs from his 1968 classic album, Astral Weeks. The live performances on the DVD were filmed from two separate concerts by Van Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California with a fourteen member band. The DVD is featured as an Amazon.com Exclusive in the United States with a release date of May 19, 2009. Morrison has already released an album on CD and vinyl on February 24, 2009 entitled, Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl with material from these two concerts. Included as a trailer and entitled "To Be Born Again" is an interview conducted by Scott Foundas with Morrison explaining some of the meaning behind Astral Weeks and other footage behind the scenes. Some of the songs on the DVD have new sections that were added during the live performances on stage at the Hollywood Bowl. As producer of the CD and DVD, Morrison insisted on no post-production engineering so that the sound would be as close as possible to the live concert performances.

Review (Amazon) : On November 7 and 8, 2008, four decades after the release of the classic Astral Weeks, Van Morrison revisited the album live in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl, and delivered a jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring performance. Van did not simply re-create what he did 40 years ago in a NY studio, but instead took the songs to a dramatically higher contemporary level. The Jazz-rooted compositions of Astral Weeks are poetic stories of young love and the quest to find one's place in life. They were, and remain, ideal source material for musical improvisation that gives way to the sense of wonder for which Morrison has always striven.