Affinity, 1978 Andromeda's Suffering, 1973 The Ankh of Amen-Ra Atomic Peace Battle of Armageddon Bhaja Govindam, 1978 Bliss: The Eternal Now, 1974 Blue Nile Galaxy Around Satchidananda Galaxy in Turiya Ganesha, 1978 Ghana Nila, 1978 Going Home (adaptation by Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana) Gospel Trane. Coltrane – musical partner and wife of saxophone player John 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 immersed herself in Eastern philosophies, mythologies, and Vedic religious practices.
“And the context was familiar to me that’s the same organ I heard my mother play every day of my childhood, practically.” The Wurlitzer now resides in the home of Ravi’s younger brother, Oran, who is a DJ.Ravi discovered the stripped-down Kirtan tapes while looking for material his mother could record for 2004’s Translinear Light, a late-life reprise of Alice’s ‘70s genius that also happened to be her first commercial release in 26 years. And he notes that Turiya marked the first time she had ever sung in a recording studio.“I’ve been hearing these songs since I was very, very young,” the esteemed saxophonist recalls from his Brooklyn home. From Turiya on, with a single exception, she concentrated exclusively on the Sanskrit chants employed by Hindu practitioners and her fellow Western travelers.As the son of Alice and John Coltrane, saxophonist and Kirtan: Turiya Sings producer Ravi Coltrane knew the devotional side of his mother’s broad musical vision intimately.
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“My mother was always her own person,” he says. (The eldest, John Jr., died in a 1982 car accident.) Ravi knew Alice was special. John and Alice married in 1965, and she replaced McCoy Tyner in her husband’s quartet a year later, helping him explore increasingly “anti-jazz” realms of blissfully overblown cosmo-spirituality.Born in 1965, Ravi was the second of the three sons John and Alice had together. After returning to the United States, she joined vibraphonist Terry Gibbs’ quartet, which happened to be opening for the John Coltrane Quartet at New York’s Birdland one fateful evening in 1963. There she met the great Bud Powell, who became her piano mentor.
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In 1976, she renounced secular life altogether and became a swamini, or spiritual director, of what would become known as the Sai Anantam Ashram.On Sundays, she led services at the ashram, singing bhajans to her own organ accompaniment and leading the communal chants known as kirtans, a devotional style that has been popularized by Ram Dass, Jai Uttal and Krishna Das, among others. These included bouts of insomnia, temperature experiments and severe weight loss that resulted in her hospitalization. But I was definitely aware that my mom wasn’t like the other kids’ moms.”Alice’s path took a particularly challenging turn following her husband’s death, when she took a vow of celibacy and embarked on a nearly medieval series of spiritual renunciations and austerities.
“I have my little memories tied to each of the records,” he says, “but it all really just sounds like home to me, the sound of my mother. “So we have a lot of archived music we’d like to bring to the people.”As for Ravi’s favorite Alice Coltrane album, he’d prefer not to have to choose. “My mother was always in the studio and never stopped recording music, even when she wasn’t under contract to a label,” he says. Ravi expects the next up to be Sacred Language of Ascension, one of the last things his mother recorded before she passed away. “Govinda, Hari, Ram, Krishna/ Names of God,” she offers on “Govinda Hari,” emphasizing how “Dear to Sita is the lotuseyed/ beautiful Rama.”Turiyasangitananda devotees can look forward to more new releases.
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