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Astral Weeks: Legacy, Music, Members & Standards

Astral Weeks is the second studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was recorded at Century Sound Studios in New York during September and October 1968 and released in November of the same year by Warner Bros. Records.

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Astral Weeks topic overview

The analysis highlights Legacy, Music, Members and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around Astral Weeks.

Related topics
145
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
159
Extracted relationships
156
Concept neighborhoods
34
Bridge connections
159

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 40 topics
Legacy and influence · 36 topics
Personnel · 16 topics
Background · 13 topics
Reception · 12 topics
Music and lyrics · 10 topics
Recording sessions · 10 topics
Astral Weeks revisited · 5 topics
Packaging · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Genres
Folk rock · folk jazz · progressive folk · blue-eyed soul
Label
Warner Bros.
Length
47:10
Producer
Lewis Merenstein
Recorded
25 September 1968, 1 and 15 October 1968
Released
29 November 1968

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Overview

Background

Recording sessions

Music and lyrics

Packaging

Reception

Legacy and influence

Astral Weeks revisited

Personnel

Sources

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Astral Weeks connects Entity context

The extracted context around Astral Weeks shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Astral Weeks → American, Beat Instrumental, Bob Dylan's, Detroit Free Press, Feliciano, Forget, Greil Marcus, He, If, In, In December, In NME, John Wesley Harding, José Feliciano's, Lindsey, Logan, Loud, Madame George, Melody Maker, Moondance Another extracted example is Astral Weeks → According, AllMusic's William Ruhlmann, Asbury Park, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Colin Larkin, Europe, Glen Hansard, Greetings, Greil Marcus, HuffPost, In, Irish, It, Kathmandu, Later, Lester Bangs, Many, Martin Scorsese, Mike Ragogna. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Astral Weeks

Top relations

related to Reception · 36
Astral Weeks → American, Beat Instrumental, Bob Dylan's, Detroit Free Press, Feliciano, Forget, Greil Marcus, He, If, In, In December, In NME, John Wesley Harding, José Feliciano's, Lindsey, Logan, Loud, Madame George, Melody Maker, Moondance
related to Legacy and influence · 30
Astral Weeks → According, AllMusic's William Ruhlmann, Asbury Park, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Colin Larkin, Europe, Glen Hansard, Greetings, Greil Marcus, HuffPost, In, Irish, It, Kathmandu, Later, Lester Bangs, Many, Martin Scorsese, Mike Ragogna
related to Recording sessions · 30
Astral Weeks → According, All, And, Berliner, Century Sound Studios, Charles Mingus, Connie Kay, Davis, Eric Dolphy, For, He, Jay Berliner, Kay, Kielbania, Merenstein, Modern Jazz Quartet, Morrison, New York, October, Payne
related to Astral Weeks revisited · 19
Astral Weeks → Astral Weeks Live, California, DVD, February, Hollywood Bowl, In November, It, Jay Berliner, Lion, Listen, Los Angeles, LP, May, Morrison, Morrison's, Rolling Stone, The, The Concert Film, Van Morrison
related to Packaging · 16
Astral Weeks → According, Cecil McCartney, If, Irish, It, Jim Morrison, Joel Brodsky, McCartney, Morrison, Steve Turner, The, There, Van, Van Morrison, Van Morrison's, Young Lions
related to Music and lyrics · 11
Astral Weeks → According, AllMusic's William Ruhlmann, Although, Charlie Gillett, Fame, Guy Raz, Morrison, Morrison's, NPR, Rock, Roll Hall
Genres · 4
Astral Weeks → blue-eyed soul, folk jazz, Folk rock, progressive folk
Label · 1
Astral Weeks → Warner Bros.
Length · 1
Astral Weeks → 47:10
Producer · 1
Astral Weeks → Lewis Merenstein

Important terminology

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Important terminology

morrison album astral weeks time song morrison's songs van music first one records like recording according said record session isbn

Astral Weeks relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 156 structured relationships around Astral Weeks. Examples in this analysis include Astral Weeks → Genres → Folk rock and Astral Weeks → Genres → folk jazz. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Astral WeeksGenresFolk rock1.00infobox
Astral WeeksGenresfolk jazz1.00infobox
Astral WeeksGenresprogressive folk1.00infobox
Astral WeeksGenresblue-eyed soul1.00infobox
Astral WeeksLabelWarner Bros.1.00infobox
Astral WeeksLength47:101.00infobox
Astral WeeksProducerLewis Merenstein1.00infobox
Astral WeeksRecorded25 September 1968, 1 and 15 October 19681.00infobox
Astral WeeksReleased29 November 19681.00infobox
Astral WeeksStudiosCentury Sound, New York City1.00infobox
Astral Weeksis asecond studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison0.90text
Bonoinstance ofAstral Weeks influenced future releases of other musicians0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Astral Weeks bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Weeks, Said and Album. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Weeks
    • Said
    • Album
    • First
    • Morrison
    • Time
    • Songs
    • Van
    • Like
    • Released
    • Music
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  • astral weeks
    • Weeks
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    • Album
    • First
    • Morrison
    • Time
    • Songs
    • Van
    • Like
    • Released
    • Music
    • Still
  • studio album
    • Astral
    • Weeks
    • Morrison
    • Song
    • Songs
    • Morrison's
    • Rolling
    • According
    • Music
    • Live
    • Lyrics
    • Session
  • van morrison
    • Morrison
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    • Isbn
    • Just
    • Weeks
    • Song
    • One
    • Songs
    • Payne
    • Avenue
    • Music
    • Two
  • warner bros. records
    • Warner
    • Released
    • One
    • Merenstein
    • Recording
    • Time
    • Sessions
    • Still
    • Work
    • Would
    • Like
    • Music
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    • Musicians
    • Rock
    • Music
    • According
    • Lyrics
    • Sessions
    • Merenstein
    • Recording
    • Avenue
    • Madame
    • Two
    • Warner
  • concept album
    • Astral
    • Weeks
    • Morrison
    • Song
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    • Morrison's
    • Rolling
    • According
    • Music
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    • Lyrics
    • Session
  • rock music
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    • Weeks
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    • Recording
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    • Warner

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Astral Weeks, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Astral Weeks with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Astral WeeksOverview · splits 119 ⟂ 41
Astral WeeksLegacy and influence · splits 123 ⟂ 37
Astral WeeksPersonnel · splits 143 ⟂ 17
Astral WeeksBackground · splits 146 ⟂ 14
Astral WeeksReception · splits 147 ⟂ 13
Astral WeeksRecording sessions · splits 149 ⟂ 11
Astral WeeksMusic and lyrics · splits 149 ⟂ 11
Astral WeeksAstral Weeks revisited · splits 154 ⟂ 6
Astral WeeksSources · splits 155 ⟂ 5
Astral WeeksPackaging · splits 156 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Astral Weeks

Nodes160
Edges159
Triples156
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.0125
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Astral Weeks to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Legacy, Music, Members & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Astral Weeks · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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