Inarticulate Speech of the Heart

Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Studio album by Van Morrison
Released	March 1983
Recorded	1982
Studio	The Town House, London The Record Plant Harbour Sound, Sausalito Tres Virgos, San Rafael Lombard Sound, Dublin
Genre	Celtic, jazz
Length	47:10
Label	Mercury
Producer	Van Morrison
Van Morrison chronology
Beautiful Vision (1982) Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983) Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast (1984)
Singles from Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
"Cry for Home" b/w "Summertime in England" Released: February 1983 "Celtic Swing" b/w "Mr. Thomas" Released: May 1983

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 which had more than the usual complement of instrumental tracks. 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."^[1] 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".^[2]