Wow, good stuff.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
Beautifully put. But as a person unused to dealing with music of AC’s calibre, I can say that Kirtan is allowing me into its heart and I am building out from there. So in that way it’s broadening her reach.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
Boom!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
yep that's great.
― visiting, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
great job unperson! especially appreciate the quotes/context on the backend of the paragraph.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
it's like, regardless of what the end product is and whether it's more intimate or revealing or anything else, there's just the fact that it's not what she recorded. it doesn't make it better or worse or anything, it's just important to know. was irritated tor read the pfork review and see that it didn't even come up
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:01 (two years ago) link
like it let it be...naked came out without the context that before that it was let it be
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link
Just read your review, Phil! Very nicely put, and nice to see it written down given how much it's just been taken at face value.
― raven, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
man the real Turiya Sings is fucking incredible tho
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 26 July 2021 10:20 (two years ago) link
So I actually bought the new reissue when I saw it this weekend, couldn't help myself. But I remain baffled and disappointed that there aren't any immediate plans to reissue her version.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 July 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
your review has ruined this new version for me. I was getting into it before I read but now it just feels very empty compared to the one with all the extra arrangements
― gman59, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
It was noted in the Pitchfork review that this isn't the original album.
"On a more technical level, according to a label representative, the original Turiya Sings remains formally unreleased because the Coltrane family has never found its master synthesizer recordings.
What Coltrane’s son Ravi did find—around the time of his mother’s final album, 2004’s miraculous Translinear Light—were 1981 recordings she made of Turiya Sings featuring only her voice and Wurlitzer electric organ, an instrument that she once said came to her in a divine vision. (“In one meditation… the precise instrument I should get was revealed to me,” she said in an interview. “I didn’t need to do any research; it was just conveyed to me.”) These pared-back tracks of Coltrane’s most minimal music are now released as Kirtan: Turiya Sings, like seeds of the cassette that also, in some sense, expand it."
― Cow_Art, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
I've been enjoying the new reissue quite a bit since it arrived in the mail a week ago. Do agree that it would be nice to have a properly done reissue of the original cassette release, but am still very happy with this one.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Monday, 26 July 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
I never heard the original cassette release, more than hearing part of it on WFMU (I think, memories are a little fuzzy) at one point, so it never really became deeply embedded in my DNA or anything. With that in mind, I'm surprised by how much I am enjoying this new reissue. It does have its own minimal, meditative vibe that works when presented this way. That said, I really wish they would have been able to reissue the cassette version too.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
“Keshava Murahara” on my headphones right now. Almost makes me believe god exists.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 17 February 2022 05:34 (two years ago) link
ecstatic music.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Thursday, 17 February 2022 13:45 (two years ago) link
saw "Turiya and Ramakrishna" featured at the top of a Spotify curated Jazz You Know-playlist
which is true
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
Coincidentally just listened to Ptah and yeah that track is something else
― Indexed, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
40-minute video of a performance from 1993 (solo harp, then synth/violin duos, then solo synth with vocals):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRolZjMXk3Q
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
amazing, thanks for sharing.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Wonderful
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Thursday, 28 April 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Truly. That was thoroughly enjoyable.
When she's playing harp at the beginning I kept expecting a bright blue glow to start appearing around her.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
at long last, a legit reissue of "ptah"
https://jazz.centerstagestore.com/products/alice-coltrane-ptah-the-el-daoud-lp-verve-by-request-series
― budo jeru, Monday, 3 October 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
yeah placed an order for this last week after off-loading my (pretty good sounding, TBF) bootleg vinyl copy on the ebay.
― akm, Monday, 3 October 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
makes sense, Turiya & Ramakrishna is kind of a system glitch hit on Spotify, on all sorts of really lame playlists
but what a jam
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
Mind blown!
TIL that Doja Cat is the girl in the pink dress, hanging with Alice Coltrane. pic.twitter.com/oLnH3KWSwb— Dave Segal (@editaurus) September 21, 2023
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:10 (six months ago) link
ha yes this has been going around, pretty cool
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:10 (six months ago) link
huh
― Left, Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:11 (six months ago) link
Doja Cat fans and AC fans are probably like who dat?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:17 (six months ago) link
From the ages of about 8 to 12, Doja lived on a Californian ashram headed by Alice Coltrane, the wife of jazz musician John Coltrane, after Doja’s artist mother moved there from her grandmother’s house in Rye, N.Y. (Her father, who has not been a big part of her life, is South African actor and dancer Dumisani Dlamini.) While there, she learned her first dance moves from the Bharatanatyam tradition. While she doesn’t dance that way anymore, “I think that helped shape how I emote on stage because it’s a very emotional form of dance,” she says.
https://time.com/6269491/doja-cat-interview-time100/
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:17 (six months ago) link
interesting
― budo jeru, Friday, 22 September 2023 00:37 (six months ago) link
awesome! My eldest is a big fan of both, this will blow her mind
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 22 September 2023 01:01 (six months ago) link
I had this album framed on my wall for a while. It looks so good
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Friday, 22 September 2023 01:21 (six months ago) link
xps am I allowed to call this pairing AC/DC?
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 22 September 2023 03:39 (six months ago) link
ahem https://theheatwarps.com/2023/10/30/coltrane-santana-1974/
― tylerw, Friday, 3 November 2023 17:52 (five months ago) link
!!!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 November 2023 17:57 (five months ago) link
whoa I was just listening to that LP yesterday!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 3 November 2023 18:16 (five months ago) link
― budo jeru, Friday, 3 November 2023 18:24 (five months ago) link
Wow. Definitely gonna dive into both of those this weekend, though the live recording is the bigger draw for me.
My first guess at a drummer for the live stuff would be Ben Riley, who was on Lord of Lords and Eternity, which were released before and after that concert, respectively.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 3 November 2023 18:44 (five months ago) link
loving the stripped down vibes
Bliss: The Eternal Now version 3 (alt take) is great
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 19 November 2023 15:27 (four months ago) link
accidentally put it on repeat and I say it was stuck there for a good half hour, bliss bliss eternal now
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 19 November 2023 15:28 (four months ago) link
also getting strong star wars theme vibes which i guess rules
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 19 November 2023 15:29 (four months ago) link
i'm not high
but i feel high
Holy shit — her 1971 Carnegie Hall concert (with Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Garrison, Cecil McBee, Ed Blackwell, Clifford Jarvis, Kumar Kramer, and Tulsi Reynolds) is being released by Impulse! in March. There's a pre-order link for vinyl, but not for a CD version yet that I can find...
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:24 (two months ago) link
!!
I hope there is a CD version coming, would absolutely grab that in a heartbeat. Be a nice upgrade from the Hi Hat release with just "Africa".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:29 (two months ago) link
i can't figure out how to link directly to the preview track/video, but there's a very excellent 15 minute version of shiva-loka here halfway down the page here:
https://pitchfork.com/news/alice-coltrane-1971-carnegie-hall-concert-set-for-release/
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:32 (two months ago) link
pretty cool — always wondered if there was more of that show. I guess so!
Impulse usually does CDs, would be surprised if they didn't for this one, too.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:34 (two months ago) link
Yeah, I'm sure they will, it just hasn't popped up on their webstore yet for some reason.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:36 (two months ago) link
oh hell yeah
― Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:48 (two months ago) link
great, now do berkley '72
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:56 (two months ago) link