Alice Coltrane - S/D

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

ha yes this has been going around, pretty cool

huh

Doja Cat fans and AC fans are probably like who dat?

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/

interesting

awesome! My eldest is a big fan of both, this will blow her mind

I had this album framed on my wall for a while. It looks so good

xps am I allowed to call this pairing AC/DC?

ahem https://theheatwarps.com/2023/10/30/coltrane-santana-1974/

!!!

whoa I was just listening to that LP yesterday!

interesting

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.

loving the stripped down vibes

Bliss: The Eternal Now version 3 (alt take) is great

accidentally put it on repeat and I say it was stuck there for a good half hour, bliss bliss eternal now

also getting strong star wars theme vibes which i guess rules

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...

!!

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".

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/

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.

Yeah, I'm sure they will, it just hasn't popped up on their webstore yet for some reason.

oh hell yeah

great, now do berkley '72

berkEley

the way things have been going, i wouldn't be surprised if they were like, "We've finally restored this concert to its original version, where a technical error muted Pharoah Sanders's microphone, rendering him inaudible for the entire concert!"

I just got the press release from the label, and the two long essays that are gonna be included in the package. Here are the track running times:

Alice Coltrane
The Carnegie Hall Concert
Journey In Satchidananda 15:02
Shiva-Loka 14:40
Africa 28:09
Leo 21:34

Total running time 79:25

aw yeah ... that's a pretty major addition to the live AC oeuvre

Excitement!

kind of wild that this was a triple bill with Laura Nyro and The Rascals (though Alice did guest on a Rascals record right around this time!)

According to the liner notes it's because the concert was a benefit for the Swami, and Alice, Laura Nyro, and Felix Cavalieri were all devotees.

Total running time 79:25

ok now we're talking

Rocking "Sivaya" on this mild morning

Fwiw, Amazon has a pre-order for both vinyl and CD, so they're both indeed coming.

the way things have been going, i wouldn't be surprised if they were like, "We've finally restored this concert to its original version, where a technical error muted Pharoah Sanders's microphone, rendering him inaudible for the entire concert!"

― budo jeru, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 6:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

say more about this, is there a collective will to sand the skronkier edges off alice?

I think he's referring to the altered release of Turiya Sings?

Pre-orders are up; black vinyl, orange vinyl and a 2CD set. I got the press download last night; it sounds amazing so far. Bought the 2CD set.

xp yup

I figured this was going to be good but it is good

Very excited to get my copy, glad to upgrade that grey market bootleg with only a part of the set. So the Aquarium Drunkard review isn't just hyperbole?

Had The Carnegie Hall Concert been released in 1971 when it was originally commissioned and recorded by Impulse as a double live LP, it would undoubtedly rank among the all-time holy grails of live jazz, no, live music, period.

I mean this all-time holy grails of live jazz, no, live music, period is a bit of a high bar but a few moments on here on genuinely stunning

Haha, I figured that might be a stretch, but I am just thrilled this exists now.

it's blowing my mind imagining how mind blowing it must have been being in the audience for this. the sound quality of the recording is way better than the clips i had heard alluded to. really stunning!

It's really, really good. Waiting for my CD copy to arrive.

I wonder if it was sourced from a reference master or something because there are some moments of crunchy static and some weirdness where the applause between certain songs seems looped? Maybe the promotional WAV files I was sent were wonky, I don't know. But on a purely musical level, yeah, it's top-tier Alice.

Yeah, I read in one of the reviews that there was weird looping in the crowd sounds between songs, like they were trying to cover for some other audio glitch or something. But, whatever, if weird applause between songs is the worst things about this release, we are truly blessed.

I haven't done a really close listen yet but as far as I could tell there were only the weird, static-y audio issues during the interstitial crowd noise

Listening now, and wow.

… and yeah, the applause sounds - weird.

The applause sounds very far away but that adds something to the atmosphere