That's certainly evident throughout Keep It Simple, a self-produced collection that points up Morrison's awareness that the details are every bit as important as the big picture. The elegiac underpinnings of "Song of Home" are underscored by both the gospel-tinged backing vocals and spare instrumentation redolent of a misty heath -- elements that, tweaked ever so slightly, imbue the hazy "No Thing" with a good-naturedly bone-weary vibe. On the other hand, he and his core band open things up to great effect on the spiraling "That's Entrainment," a song that Morrison illuminates with precision.

"'Entrainment' is when you connect -- when you connect with the music," says Morrison, whose connective aptitude has earned him such honors as enshrinement in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and the Irish Music Hall of Fame, in which he was the first inductee. "'Entrainment' is really what I'm getting at in the music � where I'm able to do what I used to call my thing. Entrainment is based on accessing a sort of hypnotic kind of thing � not stage hypnosis, but more like tying in with the music. Its kind of when you're in the present moment � you're here � with no past or future."
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