Alice Coltrane - S/D

SOOOOO GOOD!

Great taste in cars too.

Amazing. I met Rashied Ali a couple of times in the ‘90s and he *looks exactly the same in the film*!

Bless the Coltranes.

are there any available recordings of this two-bassist lineup?

also, the footage of her harp improv is :O

might be mistaken, but I think McBee and Garrison are both on the Carnegie Hall 71 recording.

xp bill wood AKA vishnu wood plays oud on "journey in satchidanda" but apart from that i don't know much about him or this lineup

nice doc! there's got to be more footage of that concert out there somewhere.

CAPTION
This 16mm film is a documentary segment focusing on the life of Alice Coltrane and her children in the wake of the death of her husband, famed jazz magician John Coltrane.

:)

thanks for this, Brad.

A photo I'd never seen before, of John and Alice in Japan:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbS0OuQXYAE_hQD.png

<3

Nice.

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#goals

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the perfect prescription

Alice is great but I still wouldn’t mind that pill tbh

Impulse! is doing a big 60th anniversary self-celebration campaign and among other things, they're doing something pretty cool:

This summer, Impulse! Records will release a true rarity, Turiya Sings, by Alice Coltrane. Turiya Sings is a record of devotional chants recorded in the early 1980s at her ashram – the only place it was ever available. It is Alice Coltrane at peak spirituality and features her playing organ and chanting.

A version of this music was released on cassette in 1982, with synth and strings added, but never released after. For the first time ever, Turiya Sings will be released in its purest form – just organ and voice –as Alice’s son and reissue producer Ravi Coltrane has long wanted to do. This was the wish of her son and jazz musician Ravi Coltrane who heard the original tapes. Turiya Sings (Deluxe Edition) will feature both versions of this spiritual recording – both remixed, remastered and released for the first time digitally and physically on CD and LP.

I have two of her other devotional albums, Divine Songs and Infinite Chants, but not Turiya Sings, so I'm looking forward to checking that one out. I suspect I'll probably like the original version better than the stripped-down remix, but I definitely want to hear both.

oh hell yeah, it's the best one IMO

^^

and hell yeah, i can't wait for that. wonder if they'll make a cassette version as well?

oops, didn't mean to replicate the hell yeah! but i am pumped as well

Best album ever

This is literally the best news i have heard in 2021.

hell yeah

hell yeah

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, February 11, 2021

This is literally the best news i have heard in 2021.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, February 9, 2021 6:18 PM

psyched

Any news on the Turiya Sings reissue? I can't find any info on it on the Impulse! homepage, and it isn't available as preorder on Amazon either. Has there been any release date set for it?

This Brooklyn Vegan piece has a list at the end which mentions:

Remixed, Reimagined Rarity from Alice Coltrane Turiya Sings Never Before Released Digitally or on LP, CD (Summer 2021)

Turiya Sings is so wonderful. And I don't think any of the tracks ended up on that Luaka Bop compilation, right?
I love her whammy bar organ playing - it seems to me it's like her doing the harp glissandi only proper glissandi... and so mournful.
I haven't got a spiritual bone in my body but this stuff is absolutely moving.

"(Summer 2021)" I have no idea what this means though. Not just Northern Hemisphere chauvinism, but in Australia we don't really have seasons. It's cold now, but I guess winter is... later.

I get PR emails from Impulse! regularly and haven't heard anything about this reissue yet.

Summer 2021 starts next week.

Major labels usually announce releases 6-8 weeks before street date so at this point you should expect it in late July or August at the earliest.

i am praying to all deities that this actually happens.

And now the announcement is out.

Never-before-released Alice Coltrane album of devotional music to be issued on Impulse!

Fans of spiritual jazz are in for a treat as Impulse! announce Kirtan: Turiya Sings, a never-before-released recording made by “the godmother of spiritual jazz”, Alice Coltrane, will now see the light of day. Recorded in 1981, yet never shared in this form publicly, Kirtan: Turiya Sings is a collection of nine devotional songs, featuring the never-before-heard combination of Coltrane’s voice and organ. Released on 16 July on Impulse! Records/UMe, the record issued as part of the legendary label’s 60th anniversary celebrations this year

Though known by many as the musical partner and wife of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane is revered for her groundbreaking contributions to spiritual jazz with her legendary Impulse! recordings Journey in Satchidananda and Ptah, The El Daoud, among others. Throughout the 1970s, in addition to maintaining the busy schedule of a recording and touring artist, Alice Coltrane was immersing herself in Eastern philosophies, mythologies, and Vedic religious practices. By the early 1980s, she had become a guru and spiritual teacher and began to make music exclusively for her community at The Vedantic Center, northwest of Los Angeles.

The original recording of these songs, Turiya Sings, was released exclusively on cassette in 1982 for the students of the ashram. In addition to Alice’s voice and organ, the recording included synthesizers, strings, and sound effects. In 2004, Alice’s son and producer of this record, Ravi Coltrane, found mixes he’d never heard before of just Alice’s voice and her Wurlitzer organ. He knew this is what the world had to hear.

“In this setting I felt the greatest sense of her passion, devotion and exaltation in singing these songs in praise of the Supreme. In that moment, I knew people needed to hear Turiya Sings in this context.” Ravi continues, “as her son, growing up and hearing her playing these songs on the very same Wurlitzer you hear on this recording, I recognize this choice maintains the purity and essence of Alice’s musical and spiritual vision. In many ways, this new clarity brings these chants to an even higher place.”

The "single" is "Krishna Krishna":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn36bzFZeg4

ordered.

wonderful

amazing thanks for the heads up!

magic

Wow... all the glorious glissandoing synths, murdered.
This is Turiya Sings denuded. I'm not sure I am interested in buying this after all :(

I'm not 100% sold myself. I mean, Alice Coltrane was not just an organist, or a harpist; she was a brilliant writer/arranger for strings as well. All that stuff was on the original record for a reason. This version very much fits the NPR aesthetic of the moment, though.

not knowing the original, I thought it was beautiful

there's a mediocre-quality upload of the original tape on youtube iirc

seems like a mistake to not reissue both imo

not knowing the original, I thought it was beautiful

The synths are glorious on the original tape. To remove them is nuts.

yeah i'll still be buying it without hesitation, but why not reissue the original material?

also my prayers were answered, but i guess this is what happens when you don't specify denomination.¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

I just noticed unperson posted this a while back: "Turiya Sings (Deluxe Edition) will feature both versions of this spiritual recording – both remixed, remastered and released for the first time digitally and physically on CD and LP."

Hopefully that is still the plan?

Apparently not since the pre-order link doesn't show a deluxe edition. That's too bad.

I love the YouTube version (with the extra sounds) but i could see enjoying this as well. Honestly, now that I finally have a decent tape deck, I want the cassette!

Dusty Groove and some other folks have this listed as a 2LP set. Impulse page doesn't indicate, but I'm guessing this is the deluxe/2LP?