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Alice Coltrane Kirtan: Turiya Sings

Label / Impulse!
Category / Spiritual Jazz, New Age
Code / 00602435939766

"In 1981, Alice Coltrane sang on record for the first time, at the behest of God. Having lived many musical lives—church organist, bebop pianist, cosmic jazz visionary, intrepid experimental composer—she was by then serving as spiritual director for her interfaith Vedantic Center in Southern California, seeking new modes of transcendence. It would be a couple of years before Coltrane opened her Sai Anantam Ashram in Agoura Hills, but already she was deep into a personal journey in consciousness. She had begun a transfiguration following the death of her husband John in 1967, and her auspicious meeting, not long after, with guru and counterculture icon Swami Satchidananda. “Several years ago, following a long period of elementary meditating and reading of some of the diverse books on spirituality and world religions, I felt the deepest transcendental longing to realize the Supreme Lord,” Coltrane wrote in her spiritual autobiography, Monument Eternal, in 1977. “This longing within the depths of my heart was soon acknowledged, for within a short period of time I experienced the first rays of illumination and spiritual re-awakening.” Coltrane is still best known for her 1971 record bearing Satchidananda’s name, which mixed cascading harp and droning tanpura with Pharoah Sanders’ expressive saxophone. But a sense of spiritual awe suffused her music from her 1968 debut as bandleader onward. Whether in her glittering post-bop or her orchestral proto-noise psychedelia, Coltrane’s compositions make you feel connected to yourself and the world with preternatural clarity. They make you believe things you otherwise wouldn’t; they may even facilitate the process of temporarily suspending fear. Coltrane spent the second half of the 1970s releasing revelatory albums like 1976’s Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana and 1977’s Transcendence, which fulfilled and challenged her major-label recording contract with manifestations of her Universal Consciousness." Pitchfork

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