Van Morrison Moondance

Melody, mood and romance Morrison at his most effortless and inspired!

Part of the Acoustic Sounds 40 Series

Releasing 40 titles to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Acoustic Sounds!

180-gram 45 RPM double LP

Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab

Mastered from a flat 24/192 digital transfer of the original master tape. EQ’d through The Mastering Lab’s analog all-tube system

Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing

Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time No. 120/500!

Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music’s true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced what is regarded as perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock ‘n’ roll canon.

Hailed by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time, Morrison’sMoondancewas an immediate and commercial success after the Northern Irish singer-songwriter released it on Feb. 27, 1970. After the commercial failure of his first Warner Bros. albumAstral Weeks(1968), Morrison moved to upstate New York with his wife and began writing songs forMoondance. There, he met the musicians that would record the album with him at New York City’s A & R Studios in August and September 1969.

The album found Morrison abandoning the abstract folk jazz compositions ofAstral Weeksin favor of more formally composed songs, which he wrote and produced entirely himself. Its lively rhythm and blues/rock music was the style he would become most known for in his career. The music incorporated soul, jazz, pop, and Irish folk sounds into songs about finding spiritual renewal and redemption in worldly matters such as nature, music, romantic love, and self-affirmation.

Moondancehelped establish Morrison as a major pop music artist while several songs from the album, including the title track, became staples of FM radio in the early 1970s.Rolling Stone‘s updated list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time hasMoondanceat No. 120.

Lacquers cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab at 45 RPM(Mastered from a flat 24/192 digital transfer of the original master tape. EQ’d through The Mastering Lab’s analog all-tube system), pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, and housed in a tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing.

Format / LP
Released /02/20/2026
Catalogue / AAPP-20145
Barcode / 753088201790
Artist /Van Morrison
Label /Analogue Productions
Genre /Pop / Rock