There’s never been anything like Astral Weeks—not before or since. Parting with the straightforward, R&B-based rock of his past, a young Van Morrison embraced his love of jazz, blues, folk, and poetry all at once. The thrillingly transcendent journey finds him mixing bittersweet childhood memories and in-the-moment reveries like a folk-rock James Joyce. His soulful voice soars over a constantly shifting, almost impressionistic landscape of fluid, jazzy lines, gentle strumming, and shimmering orchestrations. The magic Morrison created here is as otherworldly as the title suggests.

This deluxe box set includes five separate EP-length CDs housed in individual slip-cases. EPs spans Wyatt’s celebrated solo career through 1998 and contains a wealth of previously unreleased and hard-to-find material as well as alternate versions of his acclaimed songs.

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2008.

◎聯合推薦：林懷民、蔣勳、嚴長壽、胡德夫、徐璐、蕭青陽 ◎23首歌曲：11首原唱、2首典藏、8首全新演唱、2首錄音片段。 ◎蔣勳詩作吟誦，陳柔錚音樂文本，遺落30年後民歌原聲珍藏版。 ◎3支影片：1支李雙澤紀錄片、「美麗島」與「少年中國」音樂MV。 一雙穿起民歌草鞋的腳 … 他的歌，是河流，也是大海。 李雙澤 演唱，遺落30年後民歌原聲珍藏。 一九七六年，李雙澤在淡江大學一場演唱會，質疑大家都喝可口可樂、唱西洋歌，釀成知名的「可口可樂」事件。「淡江可口可樂事件」造成了一連串校園內的抨擊與自覺反省的強大思潮。這是70年代民歌發聲的初始，李雙澤當場率先提出「唱自己的歌」，開始將「大聲說話用力敲鐘」的精神用在音樂上，也引發當時大學生風起雲湧的創作風氣，影響後來擁有更多的校園民歌作品。李雙澤畢生創作九首歌曲，他所創作的兩首歌「美麗島」與「少年中國」仍流傳至今。

Françoise Madeleine Hardy is a French singer-songwriter. She made her musical debut in the early 1960s on Disques Vogue and found immediate success with her song "Tous les garçons et les filles".