Poetic Champions Compose is an album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). As described by Brian Hinton: "It is an album which is more than the sum of its parts, exuding an overall sense of calm and optimism."
Morrison originally intended the album to consist wholly of jazz instrumental works, but he said, "after three numbers I thought I should put some words in." Nonetheless, each side of the al...
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Poetic Champions Compose is an album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). As described by Brian Hinton: "It is an album which is more than the sum of its parts, exuding an overall sense of calm and optimism."
Morrison originally intended the album to consist wholly of jazz instrumental works, but he said, "after three numbers I thought I should put some words in." Nonetheless, each side of the album opens with an instrumental, "Spanish Steps" and "Celtic Excavation", and closes with another, "Allow Me". According to Brian Hinton, "Spanish Steps" is "a tune as calm as a millpond. Its title and shadings are similar to Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain and the guitar concertos of Rodriguez." Morrison's philosophy reading list is evident in "Alan Watts Blues", and Socrates and Plato are mentioned in "I Forgot That Love Existed", as well as Rudolf Steiner's pronouncement about the importance of "thinking with the heart and feeling with the...
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