Editing Moondance (section)

== 2013 reissue ==
A deluxe edition of ''Moondance'' was released by Warner Bros. on 22 October 2013. It featured a newly remastered version of the original record, three CDs of previously unreleased music from the recording sessions, and a [[Blu-ray]] disc with [[high-resolution audio]] of the original album. The packaging included a linen-wrapped folio and a booklet with liner notes written by Scheiner and music journalist [[Alan Light]].{{sfn|Anon.|2013a}} Select alternate takes from the deluxe edition were later compiled, along with previously unreleased mixes of "And It Stoned Me" and "Crazy Love", for ''The Alternative Moondance'', an album conceived as an alternate version of the original record and released exclusively in vinyl format for [[Record Store Day]] in April 2018.{{sfn|Reiff|2018}}

The 2013 deluxe reissue was met with widespread critical acclaim; ''[[Record Collector]]'' called it an aural "marvel", while ''[[The Independent]]'' said the remastering "strips away centuries of digital compression and makes the music sound as if you've never heard it properly".{{sfn|Anon. (e)|n.d.}} In ''Rolling Stone'', [[Will Hermes]] felt the numerous outtakes possessed an intimate quality that compensated for lacking the "sublime, brassy" arrangements featured on the final version of Morrison's "jazzy-pop masterpiece".{{sfn|Hermes|2013}} Morrison, however, disowned the release as "unauthorised" and done without his consultation while claiming his management company had given away the rights to the music in the early 1970s.{{sfn|Anon.|2013c}}