* Astral Weeks ( 1964 )

His live performances at their best are described as transcendental, while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are critically acclaimed and appear at the top of many greatest album lists.

After Berns ' death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks in 1968.

In 2008 he performed Astral Weeks live for the first time since 1968.

An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, loosely connected, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz, and stream-of-consciousness narrative, such as Astral Weeks and lesser-known works such as Veedon Fleece and Common One.

Morrison concentrated on writing some of the songs that would appear on Astral Weeks, while the remnants of the band reformed in 1967 and relocated in America.

< 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.

His first album for Warner Bros. Records was Astral Weeks ( which he had already performed in several clubs around Boston ), a mystical song cycle, often considered to be his best work and one of the best albums of all time.

Morrison has said, " When Astral Weeks came out, I was starving, literally.

A 2004 Rolling Stone magazine review begins with the words: " This is music of such enigmatic beauty that thirty-five years after its release, Astral Weeks still defies easy, admiring description.

" Alan Light would later describe Astral Weeks as " like nothing he had done previously — and really, nothing anyone had done previously.

The style of Moondance stood in contrast to that of Astral Weeks.

Whereas Astral Weeks had a sorrowful and vulnerable tone, Moondance restored a more optimistic and cheerful message to his music.

Released in 1972, Saint Dominic's Preview, revealed Morrison's break from the more accessible style of his previous three albums and moving back towards the more daring, adventurous, and meditative aspects of Astral Weeks.

The songs " Listen to the Lion " and " Almost Independence Day " are each over ten minutes long and employ the type of poetic imagery not heard since Astral Weeks.

" Critical response was favourable with a Sounds reviewer calling the album " his most intriguingly involved since Astral Weeks " and " Morrison at his most mystical, magical best.

Richard Davis, upright bass player on " The Angel ", also played the bass on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks.

Van Morrison's influence can be heard in this song, as " 4th of July, Asbury Park ( Sandy )" closely parallels his romanticization of Belfast in such songs as " Cyprus Avenue " and " Madame George " from the 1968 album, Astral Weeks.

was recorded and released under Bert Berns's control and Astral Weeks was a commercial failure if lauded by most critics, Moondance represented Morrison's first success as an artist in control of his music and his band and it established him as a top selling singer-songwriter.

" Moondance was listed among the 100 albums along with Astral Weeks.

Astral Weeks is the second solo album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in November 1968 on Warner Bros. Records.

Astral Weeks is often referred to as a song cycle or concept album with lyrics described as impressionistic, hypnotic, and stream-of-consciousness.

Music historian Andrew Ford compared its musical sophistication and commercial success to classical music-" neither instant nor evanescent: Astral Weeks will sell as many copies this year as it did in 1968 and has every year in between ".

In the weeks they played at the Catacombs, they began to develop the template for Astral Weeks.

Payne was then allowed to play on what became the title track of the album – " Astral Weeks " – the fourth song produced from this initial session.

In this manner, Charles Pratt and Company ( including Astral Oil ) became one of the important independent refiners to join the Standard Oil Trust.

In 1973 he acquired Astral Communications and subsequently combined it with his then company Ann Green Photos and it became one of the leading film production companies in Canada, producing such films as Porky's, the most successful Canadian film ever and the critically acclaimed The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

Astral body, desire body, and emotional body became synonymous, and this identification is found in later Theosophically-inspired thought.

The Astral Photo name disappeared when its Quebec stores became Black's.

Through various acquisitions over the years, Shaw, Astral, and Les Films Rozon sold their interest in the service to Baton, which became Bell Globemedia in 2001 and was renamed CTVglobemedia in 2007, then Bell Media in 2011 following its acquisition by Bell Canada.

Charles Pratt and Company ( including Astral Oil ) became one of the important former independent refiners to join Rockefeller's organization ; it became part of the Standard Oil Trust in 1874.

Charles Pratt and his family founded the Pratt Institute, the great school of art & architecture, and the Astral Oil Works, which later became part of Standard Oil.

Pratt became a pioneer of the natural oil industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn.

Charles Pratt and Company ( including Astral Oil ) became one of the important formerly independent refiners to join Rockefeller's organization, and it was to become part of the Standard Oil Trust in 1874.

In 1874, Charles Pratt and Company ( including Astral Oil ) became one of the important formerly independent refiners to join Rockefeller's organization, and it was to become part of the Standard Oil Trust when it was formed.

Specializing in illuminating oil, which had earlier been derived from whale oil, the products of the Astral Oil Works kerosene refinery became famous worldwide in the late 19th century.

However, the company's official name remains Astral Media.

A god-isle is the immense petrified remains of a dead god that float on the Astral Plane, where githyanki and others often mine them for minerals and build communities on their stony surfaces.

By 2010, Astral Media's CHSU-FM Kelowna and CICF-FM Vernon ( along with NL Broadcasting's CKRV-FM in Kamloops ) replaced CHBE-FM as the other top 40 station in British Columbia, although sister station CHBE-FM returned to hot AC as well, but CFBT still remains top 40 and no longer leans rhythmic despite for the fact all the rap tracks that had not been played on Canadian adult top 40 stations had since been dropped.

During the seventh season ( 2004 – 2005 ) finale, it is revealed that Prue had taught Leo how to use Astral Projection despite being " really protective of it ".

On January 13, 2011, competing broadcaster Astral Media announced that they will seek legal action to stop the sale of these stations to Cogeco, citing the fact that it would own more stations than Astral in the Montreal market, making the competition unfair.

Their lack of piety is further demonstrated by the fact that they often make their homes on the floating, stonelike corpses of dead gods drifting in the Astral Plane.

In fact, most of the songs on Astral Weeks are like short stories.