Remembering Now: Van Morrison’s Testament of Light and Redemption
Remembering Now: Van Morrison’s Testament of Light and Redemption In the twilight of his eighth decade, Van Morrison, the bard of Belfast, the poet who walks in the footsteps of Yeats, has woven a tapestry of sound and soul that feels like a divine reckoning. Remembering Now, released on June 13, 2025, is no mere album—it is a sacred text, a blues-soaked, jazz-infused, soul-stirred gospel of the present moment. It is as if Morrison, at nearly 80, has reached into the embers of his past, gathered the sparks of his finest hours—those hallowed days of Common One, Beautiful Vision, Poetic Champions Compose—and kindled them into a fire that burns with the urgency of now. This is not just a return to form; it is a resurrection, a radiant act of remembrance that binds the eternal to the fleeting, the ancestral to the immediate. To listen to Remembering Now is to stand at the crossroads of time, where the weight of decades meets the weightlessness of revelation. This, Morrison’s forty-seventh ...