The Strange World of Common One Von Olaf Westfeld / 28. August 2025 / 6 Kommentare With Pee Wee Ellis now fully on board, Morrison recorded his 1980 album, Common One over 11 days in a converted (and apparently haunted) monastery high up in the French Alps. Morrison had evidently been listening to Miles Davis’ In A Silent Way because that proto-fusion classic is all over Common One – but is especially noticeable on this closing track. According to Ellis, the song was improvised and recorded on the spot, with no real direction from Morrison aside from informing the band that there was neither key nor tempo and that he wanted something “different” from the “normal stuff.” The result is 15 minutes of minimalist ambient jazz, over which Van recounts another of his mystical visions, until, once again, he is transported beyond mere words and is reduced to whinnying into his harmonica like an animal in pain and/or ecstasy. weiterlesen