Vinyl Record

Van Morrison - Remembering Now

Van Morrison - Remembering Now on 2LP vinyl. A 2025 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · 2025

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2025 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Remembering Now is Van Morrison's 2025 album of original material, arriving after a run that had leaned into covers, skiffle, rock-and-roll memory and rearranged older work. That timing gives the title extra weight: Morrison is not simply looking back, but using memory as a present-tense musical engine. Down To Joy, first known through the film Belfast before receiving its album home, sets a tone of resilience and release; Cutting Corners and the title track keep the focus on lived time, craft and the stubborn recurrence of feeling. Across the record, Morrison works with familiar late-career tools: supple horns, blues and soul phrasing, conversational swing, gospel warmth and lyrics that move between reflection, irritation, gratitude and transcendence. At this stage, the interest is not reinvention for its own sake. It is the sound of a veteran writer returning to original songs with his oldest instincts still active.

Remembering Now matters because it restored Morrison's original songwriting to the foreground in 2025 after several projects rooted in interpretation and musical ancestry. It shows that his late catalogue is still capable of new entries shaped by memory rather than only archival return.

For collectors, this is the modern Van Morrison title to mark his post-skiffle return to newly written material. Its value lies in placement: a late-career album that gathers film-linked recognition, long-practiced band craft and the ongoing argument between remembrance and forward motion.

Late-career Van Morrison with soul-blues warmth, horn arrangements, relaxed swing, gospel undertones, reflective songwriting and a polished but lived-in band sound.

Recommended for: Van Morrison collectors following the newest original material; Listeners who prefer his soul, blues and gospel-informed band mode; Fans of late-career albums shaped by memory and continuity.

When was Remembering Now released? Remembering Now was released in 2025. Why is Down To Joy important to the album? Down To Joy had already reached listeners through the film Belfast before becoming part of the album's wider statement. Is Remembering Now a covers album? No. It is notable as a return to original Van Morrison songwriting after several projects focused on covers, roots material or rearranged songs.