There, he met the musicians that would record the album with him at New York City's A & R Studios in August and September 1969. album Astral Weeks (1968), Morrison moved to upstate New York with his wife and began writing songs for Moondance. After the commercial failure of his first Warner Bros. It was released on 27 January 1970 by Warner Bros. Moondance is the third studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.