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< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" text-align: left ; width: 27 %; float: right ; margin: 10px 0 5px 10px ; padding: 10px ; display: table ;">" Astral Weeks is about the power of the human voice – ecstatic agony, agonising ecstacy.

Here is an Irish tenor reborn as a White Negro – a Caucasian Soul Man – pleading and beseeching over a bed of dreamy folk-jazz instrumentation: acoustic bass, brushed drums, vibes and acoustic guitar, the odd string quartet – and of course flute.

" < p style =" text-align: right ;"> Barney Hoskyns – Mojo