Name: World Spirituality Classics 1 - The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Brand: Alice Coltrane

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

lb87cd

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

 CD comes with a 48-page booklet. 

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-05-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

680899008723

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Alice Coltrane

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Luaka Bop

Alice Coltrane was a legendary pianist, composer, spiritual leader, and the wife of John Coltrane, the most venerated and influential saxophonist in the history of jazz. In 1967, four years after meeting John, he died of liver cancer, leaving Alice a widow with four small children. Bereft of her soul mate, Alice suffered sleepless nights and severe weight loss. At her worst, she weighed only 95 pounds. She had hallucinations in which trees spoke, various beings existed on astral planes, and the sounds of “a planetary ether” spun through her brain, knocking her into a frightening unconsciousness. The critical event of this period was not that Alice fell into the nadir of her existence, but rather that she experienced tapas, a vital period of trial. These tapas (a Sanskrit term she used to describe her suffering) helped prepare Alice for the spiritual ally she found in Swami Satchidananda, an Indian guru, with whom Alice made her first trip to India. On her second trip there, Alice had a revelation instructing her to abandon the secular life and become a spiritual teacher in the Hindu tradition – so she moved out West – eventually opening the Shanti Anantam Ashram on 47 acres she’d bought in Agoura Hills, California. Music was the foundation of Alice’s spiritual practice. From the mid 1980’s to mid 1990’s, Alice Coltrane self-released four brilliant cassette albums. These cassettes contained a music she invented, inspired by the gospel music of the Detroit churches she grew up in, mixed together with the Indian devotional music of her religious practice, and even finds Alice singing for the first time in her recorded catalog. Originally only made available through her ashram, they are her most obscure body of work and possibly the greatest reflection of her soul.

2LP - Double LP comes with two booklets, lyrics and a download card. Limited Copies come with a bonus 7" - Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitanananda featuring Er Rab and Prayer.

World Spirituality Classics 1 - The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda

Music GB