― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
The first half is okay...the syndrums aren't very noticeable, it's just sounds like tabla and those lower pitch-bendy Indian drums whose name I don't know. She does play some questionable synthesizer on a few songs, but the cool Wurlitzer playing on other songs makes up for it.
The second half picks up a lot. 'Leo' is like Interstellar Space except with Alice, Ravi, and deJohnette, sleigh bells and all. Crescent is really nice too, as are the two duets (Alice with Charlie Haden, whom I always love hearing, and Alice on organ with an Indian choir).
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
And, concurrent with its release, Huntington Ashram Monastery and Lord of Lords are both out on CD (in Japan, that is)
― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link
The only thing I don't get is the need to end with a track of Sai bhajan chanting. I'd visit my parents' friends on weekends if I wanted to hear that. But, whatever, I guess it has meaning for her.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link
impulse should try to get the rights to her entire back catalogue (or cut in the other labels a little)and put out a complete alice box. that would be a great release.
― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tyler Wilcox (tylerw), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
I personally *prefer* her more mystical, string-laden music. I think it's absolutely beautiful and unique. In fact, the only song I really like on Transcendence is "Prema"---and it's mostly due to the beautiful string arrangement.
"Lord of Lords" also has some great pieces, like her rendition of Stravinsky's "Firebird," and the beautiful, joyous "Going Home."
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tyler Wilcox (tylerw), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Monday, 26 December 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus PBUH (Dada), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus PBUH (Dada), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I also would dearly love to find the cassette-only recordings. It seems that Ed Michel produced at least one of them.
The live album (Transfiguration?) is really, really good. Haynes & Workman are ideal sidemen for her. Anybody ever hear her album with Santana?
― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
she also arranged some songs on one of his albums "Welcome". it's pure white with the word Welcome embossed on the cover
― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I hope she cuts another album in considerably shorter time than the gap between her last 2. Harp would be nice for the next one.
I'd also like to see the quadrophonic stuff reissued on multichannel SACD.
― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 01:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 06:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Thanks for the Alice recommendations; I'd been avoiding her for some reason. She's critically underrated.
― Brakhage (brakhage), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Friday, 10 February 2006 04:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
You don't have permission to access /download/(etc. etc.)
Why me, lord?
― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Saturday, 11 February 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Harpal (harpal), Saturday, 11 February 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
:(((((
― zappi (joni), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
love that comp -- great cover art
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:02 (one month ago) link
I listen to jazz records but have had no contact with jazz fandom etc. so a bit surprised at the gatekeeping bullshit detailed above. I would have thought Alice was jazz royalty.I got into buying random jazz records from a stall in Leicester market in the 90s, which would usually be £5-10. One that I picked up early on was Karma by Pharaoh Sanders, and I immediately knew this was the stuff for me. The orange Impulse spines then became a mark of quality and I'd buy any that the stall got in - the Alice ones in particular became huge favourites.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:03 (one month ago) link
Picked my vinyl copy up from FOPP in London a decade or so ago for £10! But got the Impulse digipak back in the day for £££s, no regrets.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:29 (one month ago) link
Oh man that 5 Year View comp is (one of) my white whales
When Impulse was doing those digi-pak cd reissues in the 90s a few of them they pressed on extremely nice heavyweight lps, with gatefold covers and bumper stickers inside, (I proudly drove a white Toyota Camry with a "The New Wave of Jazz is on Impulse!" sticker for long time), I don't recall amy AC but I have a few very nice Sanders and JC lps
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:51 (one month ago) link
Early in the pandemic, I had older friends give me about 200-250 records that had been in their garage for 30 years. Among a ton of other stuff, it included OG copies of Journey and Ptah as well as Pharoah Sanders, Thembi, none of which I had heard. Needless to say, my mind was blown.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:33 (one month ago) link
Sanders' Thembi
Woah!
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:47 (one month ago) link
Thembi absolutely rules and that is a hell of a steal! As I get older, Alice's devotional music moves me the most. It's crazy that it remained obscure for so long.
Need to get on and listen to this new one.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:03 (one month ago) link
^ same
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 02:20 (one month ago) link
or, more accurately, buy this disc(s) (liner notes by EM being, i think, what's pushed me over)
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 02:21 (one month ago) link
love stirmonsters story, thats so amazing
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 13:20 (one month ago) link
I was at a funeral of a friend of 40 years standing yesterday. An incredible person with incredible taste in books, music and films. A life long devoted anti-fascist too.
He is one of a small number of people I know who truly loved Alice Coltrane. in his last days i hope i gave him a little joy by sharing some Alice bootlegs with him.
At the funeral he had requested Turiya & Ramakrishna be played in its entirety. Hearing that in a room full of his nearest and dearest in such a highly chaged emotional environment was quite a moment in time!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:54 (two weeks ago) link
I’m sorry for your loss. (And that’s an awesome idea for a homegoing service, one that probably helped everyone process their grief.)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:01 (two weeks ago) link
thank you.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:54 (two weeks ago) link
I'm also sorry for your loss, stirmonster. Whenever I hear "Galaxy In Turiya" I think to myself, "I want this played at my funeral." Glad to know there are others on the same wavelength.
― J. Sam, Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:37 (one week ago) link