Released March 1983 Producer Van Morrison Release date March 1983 | Length 47:10 Artist Van Morrison Label Mercury Records | |
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Recorded 1982
The Town House, London
The Record Plant
Harbour Sound, Sausalito
Tres Virgos, San Rafael
Lombard Sound, Dublin Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
(1983) Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast
(1984) Genres Jazz, Celtic music, New-age music Similar Van Morrison albums, Other albums | ||
Inarticulate Speech of the Heart is the fourteenth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1983. Morrison said he arrived at the title from a Shavian saying: "that idea of communicating with as little articulation as possible, at the same time being emotionally articulate". As his last album for Warner Bros. Records, he decided to do an album of mostly instrumentals. As he explained in 1984, "Sometimes when I'm playing something, I'm just sort of humming along with it, and that's got a different vibration than an actual song. So the instrumentals just come from trying to get that form of expression, which is not the same as writing a song." Although not expanded upon, of note is that a special thanks is given to L. Ron Hubbard in the liner notes. The reissued and remastered version of the album contains alternative takes of "Cry for Home" and "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 2". The track "Celtic Swing" made an appearance over the final scenes of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones.
Contents
Recording
The recording sessions took place in California, Dublin, and a series of marathon sessions at the Town House in London. Morrison played piano, guitar and saxophone on these sessions. Two Irish musicians played on the album (Arty McGlynn and Davy Spillane) and overall the music had a strong Celtic colouring. Four of the songs were instrumentals.
Track listing
All tracks written by Van Morrison.
Personnel
Charts
Album - Billboard
Album - UK Album Chart
Songs
1Higher Than the World3:44
2Connswater4:11
3River of Time3:04