Inarticulate Speech of the Heart

Infobox Album | Name = Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Type = Album
Artist = Van Morrison


Released = March, 1983
Recorded = Winter/spring 1982 at The Townhouse, London; The Record Plant and Harbour Sound, Sausalito, California; Tres Virgos, San Rafael, California and Lombard Sound Studios, Dublin
Genre = Celtic, Jazz, New Age
Length = 47:10
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Producer = Van Morrison
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Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4s77gj4rj6im link]

Rolling Stone Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/67/albums/album/190939/rid/5945016/ link]

Robert Christgau (B-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Van+Morrison link]
Last album = "Beautiful Vision"
(1982)
This album = "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart"
(1983)
Next album = "Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast"
(1984)
Misc = Singles
Name =Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Type =studio
Single 1 =Cry for Home" b/w "Summertime in England
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Single 2 =Celtic Swing" b/w "Mr. Thomas
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"Inarticulate Speech of the Heart" is an album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1983.Morrison said he arrived at the title from a Shavian saying: "that idea of communicating with as little articulation as possible, at the same time being emotionally articulate". As his last album for Warner Bros. Records, he decided to do an album of mostly instrumentals.As he explained in 1984, "Sometimes when I'm playing something, I'm just sort of humming along with it, and that's got a different vibration than an actual song. So the instrumentals just come from trying to get that form of expression, which is not the same as writing a song." [Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p. 376-377]

The June, 2008 re-issued and re-mastered version of the album contains alternative takes of "Cry for Home" and "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 2". [ [http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=9e7f77a8944fa52fb858a13add2752e0 Van Morrison Official Website] ]

Recording

The recording sessions took place in California, Dublin, Ireland and a series of marathon sessions at the Townhouse in London. Morrison played piano, guitar and saxophone on these sessions. [Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence. p.377] Two Irish musicians played on the album (Arty McGlynn and Davey Spillane) and overall the music had a strong Celtic colouring. Four of the songs were instrumentals. [Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, p. 239]

Track listing

All songs by Van Morrison

ide one

#"Higher Than the World" – 3:42
#"Connswater" – 4:09
#"River of Time" – 3:02
#"Celtic Swing" – 5:03
#"Rave On, John Donne" – 5:12

ide two

#"Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 1" – 4:53
#"Irish Heartbeat" – 4:40
#"The Street Only Knew Your Name" – 3:36
#"Cry for Home" – 3:44
#"Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 2" – 3:53
#"September Night" – 5:16

Bonus tracks (2008 CD reissue)

#"Cry for Home" - 3:49 (alternative take)
#"Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 2" - 4:48 (alternative take)

Personnel

*Van Morrison - guitar, electric piano, alto saxophone, vocal
*David Hayes - bass
*Mark Isham - synthesizer, trumpet
*John Allair - organ, electric piano
*Pee Wee Ellis - tenor and soprano saxophones, flute
*Tom Donlinger - percussion, drums
*Mihr Un Nisa Douglass - backing vocals
*Stephanie Douglass - backing vocals
*Pauline Lozana - backing vocals
*Arty McGlynn - acoustic guitar
*Davey Spilland - uilleann pipes, low flute
*Chris Michie - guitar
*Annie Stocking - backing vocals
*Bianca Thornton - backing vocals
*Peter Van Hooke - Drums, tambourine

Charts

Album - Billboard

Album - UK Album Chart

Notes

References

* Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press ISBN 1-55652-542-7
* Hinton, Brian (1997). Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison, Sanctuary, ISBN 1-86074169X

External links

* [http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=b2950180e54389f3cf9d93ad908ac00e# Lyrics and Audio Samples] 1980s, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart