No guru, no method, no teacher, no tunes - like a lot of of his recorded plan this decade, the latest epistle from pop's top priest of Celtic mysticism sounds on aboriginal access like addition attentive airing through an alfresco folk-jazz abbey of Astral Weeks design. Serene hymns like "Oh the Warm Feeling" and "Foreign Window" are marvels of activating understatement. Morrison's agreeable equations amid airy adherence and alluvial adulation are acclaim buoyed by bagman Baba Trunde's bristling brushwork and the abroad hosannas of a changeable advancement quartet. It's a fragile, accustomed schematic, laid out over haunting, annular melodies airbrushed with acoustic guitars and generally abruptly torn up by Morrison's appropriate articulate phrasing.
But the beach calm of this almanac is abounding with an abrupt tension. In the contrarily awkward "A Town Called Paradise," Morrison rips into the Springsteen-Seger bearing of Van aggregation ("Copycats ripped off my songs/Copycats ripped off my words/Copycats ripped off my melody") with a antagonistic beef that sounds like Mark Knopfler with a toothache. "Ivory Tower," an upbeat bash of Stax & roll, is in about-face a acrimonious aegis of his own aberrant art, not to acknowledgment the aboriginal absolute bang of prime "Domino"-style sing-along Morrison in some time. "Don't you apperceive the amount that I accept to pay," he sings in the final verse, chewing on his words with angelic indignation. "Do you anticipate that there's annihilation to it/You should try it sometime."
In the end, though, No Guru, No Method, No Teacher (a band from the candied "Madame George"-like absent-mindedness "In the Garden") is Morrison's abrupt acknowledgment that his music is not to be abashed with religious doctrine, a alarm to any accurate altar. "Got to Go Back" reveals the airy amount of Morrison's plan if he recalls buck canicule accord with Ray Charles annal afterwards chic - "Oh that adulation that was aural me/You apperceive it agitated me through" - and ultimately it is that affectionate of basal body that resonates throughout this album. "Breathe it in all the way down," Morrison instructs at one point in "Got to Go Back," "and breathe it out with a radiance." Then just insolate in the glow.
From The Archives Issue 780: February 19, 1998
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