Alice Coltrane - S/D

Active link to the first of them, "Turiya Sings," imo the best thing she ever did:

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=4463

HOLD THE PRESSES

http://www.innerpath.com/divine-songs-cd/

They have this one too...I wonder if they take Paypal?
http://www.innerpath.com/infinite-chants-cd/

they do! but it's out of stock

ordered a copy of divine songs before you vultures have a chance to make it disappear

divine songs out of stock now as well

guilty as charged ;)

My copies have already shipped...

mine too, krishna is totally on top of the logistics over there

wonder if they're meditating on the origins of this sudden surge in turiyasangitananda demand

never really investigated the post-impulse period before. looks like there was a devotional-style release on warners in '76 called radha-krsna nama sankirtana... which is actually on spotify....

yah i used to have that on LP, kinda wish I still did

in general I prefer harp to Rhodes, though

I really like that piano thing she did as a radio broadcast too

radha-krsna nama sankirtana

B side of this is kind of an awesome organs/drums duet with Alice and one of her sons.

yeah the marian mcpartland radio thing kills, giant steps duet is heavenly

btw I can't link it right now but googling for the tape above led me to a blog with a mix called Saved from the fire compiling some of these releases, which sounds good so far

anybody care to re-up that radio piano thing

I tweeted that a month or so ago
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140743198/alice-coltrane-on-piano-jazz

thx man... when I clicked on the previous NPR link it looked like it had disappeared...

here's a link to the saved from a fire devotional mix schlump mentioned

http://dublab.com/rbma-radio-saved-from-the-fire-the-ashram-tapes-of-alice-coltrane-by-frosty/

but it really just scratches the surface and lacks some of the more jaw-dropping moments from these albums IMO

lost in a turiyasangitananda k-hole rn

looks like there was a devotional-style release on warners in '76 called radha-krsna nama sankirtana

I have that on CD (on the Wounded Bird label). This guy right here. It's really good.

I adore those super obscure Alice things from the 80s, too, would love to own them! They are a real revelation.

I think the first side of that Radha-Krsna thing one is pretty great/uplifting and the second side jam is incredibly bad... easily the worst thing she ever touched, mostly because John's son is a terrible drummer! That 2xcd live thing Transfiguration is 100x better if you want to hear her wailing away endlessly like that. Her wonderful John-imitation with the electric organ is front and center in the mix and sometimes comes uncannily close to his sound.

I recently got a 1970's McCoy Tyner album (Extensions, I think) where she is prominently playing harp which I had never heard of before and that's pretty amazing stuff, too!!! Highly recommended.

beautiful, beautiful thread revive

I recently got a 1970's McCoy Tyner album (Extensions, I think) where she is prominently playing harp which I had never heard of before and that's pretty amazing stuff, too!!! Highly recommended.

This album is part of an excellent Mosaic Records 3CD set gathering Tyner's late '60s/early '70s Blue Note albums, all of which are great.

I remember before she died she had another devotional album prepped...I guess it never happened.

http://www.alicecoltrane.org/sacredlanguage.html

Looks like her website hasn't been updated in quite some time.

got my copy of divine songs yesterday, sounds great, best of the devotional works imo, glad I snagged one

Got a copy of 'Divine Songs' on vinyl...so so beautiful...anyone know if some of the songs have been edited?...

here's an important question - on Journey in Satchidananda, the track "Isis and Osiris" was recorded live at The Village Gate, New York City, on July 4, 1970. is there a recording of the full show? seems like it would be great - Sanders, Haden, Ali and Alice...

good question, it led me to this video aggregation:

http://www.desisrus.com/videofeed/PdHTytrKo1Q

live John Coltrane footage, etc.

cool!

oooooh. never thought about that before...if something was dug up, that would be rad!

yeah, sort of seems like it would have been dug up already, but who knows? July 4 1970! what a day.

Just starting in on this thread but

Eternity - i love this album. why? because she plays a Fender Rhodes. it's also a lot more rooted in blues and jazz than some of her prior albums that were all about free jazz and stravinsky. Om Supreme is such a beautiful song. (one of the only songs of hers that i know of that has lyrics in english).

Am so totally smitten with this album, and Om Supreme in particular (though surprised JasonD loved it so much as one of the tracks is a piece from The Rites Of Spring). Our baby daughter was born in distress earlier this year, and she and her mother had to stay in hospital for a week (both fine now), and each night I found both this album and Om Supreme in particular to be a real comfort. Wonderful music. (And after my daughter was able to come home, one afternoon I was holding her in our front room while the Stravinsky piece from this album was playing, and I swear she began 'air conducting' along with the music.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY2etLKUfAs

Mmm could listen to Alice on her Fender Rhodes forever, like Pharoah Sanders I am not overly keen on the hippyish, spiritualist excess of some of her music, especially on her vocal recordings. But albums like this one and Lord Of Lords are perfection.

wow did these 80s "spiritual guide" videos get posted here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA5ZwS4oonQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKKInfup8Mw

lol, I'm pretty sure I posted both of those on the vaporwave thread

what an odd accent/affect she had

QUEEN

wow!

definitely an interesting person... this interview from 1970 is mostly about John (recorded on his birthday) but it is well worth a listen: https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/archives/Jazz%20Archive/artist/Alice%20Coltrane

This Red Bull Music Academy piece is great. (I've been hearing for a little while about the previously unreleased music mentioned at the end of the piece. Supposedly, Ravi Coltrane wants to put it out on his own label or something, but hasn't been able to get it together yet.)

yeah i think i heard an audience tape of that at some point? definitely ambitious.
or wait maybe this is the one i was thinking of: http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities07/ARacucla.html

what i've always wanted to hear is the complete show that "isis and osiris" came from on journey in satchidananda -- "recorded live at The Village Gate, New York City, on July 4, 1970" with charlie haden, pharoah sanders etc ... the tape must be ... somewhere!

She turns up as a very obvious (acknowledged) influence on the new Radiohead album. It occurs to me that some of her Ptah stuff could have worked as music for "Peanuts" just as well as what eventually got used. Probably my most listened to jazz person after Larry Coryell.

I think Lord of Lords is the only one of the non-chant ones I don't own & have never heard. I should pick it up some time.

I was just playing the hell out of Joe Henderson's 'Elements' with her and it's a shame that whole band never cut a record under her name. It would have been great hearing Michael White play her material.

Turiya Sings is really wonderful

Going Home off Lord of Lords is absolute classic. I generally have an aversion to spiritual jazz, but certainly not with Alice Coltrane.

Lord of Lords is really great. Her version of Stravinsky's Firebird is fantastic.

Something similar that was probably a big influence on both Alice and John C is Yusef Lateef's awesome Eastern Sounds album. I listening to it a lot recently and it has gone way up in my estimation.

have been listening*