Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders - Journey In Satchidananda - LP, Album, RE, 180 - Mint (M)

Format:                      LP, Album, RE, 180

Media Condition:     Mint (M)

Sleeve Condition:     Mint (M)

Country:                    Worldwide  

Record Label:           Impulse!,Verve Records,UMe,Impulse!,Impulse!

Catalog No:              B0036675-01, AS 9203, AS-9203

Released:                  31 Mar 2023

Genre:                       Jazz

Style:                          Avant-garde Jazz, Modal, Post Bop

A1. Journey In Satchidananda 6:33
A2. Shiva-Loka 6:33
A3. Stopover Bombay 2:50
B1. Something About John Coltrane 9:40
B2. Isis And Osiris 11:32

Comments:
Factory sealed. Brand new copy.

If Miles Davis prefigured ambient jazz from a jazz-rock context, Alice Coltrane did so through the spiritual jazz that she and her husband had been so instrumental in pioneering. Journey In Satchidananda, her remarkable 1971 masterpiece, was an uncompromising dive into the music of the East, integrating South Asian stylings and  instrumentation into her work. 

Though perhaps too busy and rhythmic to be considered ambient-jazz, Coltrane deserves inclusion in the history of the genre for her foregrounding of texture, atmosphere, and meditation in the music. Though there is groove and structure here, Journey In Satchidananda draws huge amounts of its power from the drone of the Tanpura, the formless interaction of that transcendental hum and Coltrane’s cascading harp runs. That particular appreciation for space and ambience would only grow deeper the further Coltrane journeyed into the world of spiritual, devotional music. Records like Turiya Sings and Transcendence are much closer to what we would now call ambient jazz, but this was the beginning of that trajectory.

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Notes:

Comes in a single pocket gatefold jacket with a "Quality Record Pressings" archival quality rice paper inner sleeve. An "Acoustic Sounds Series" hype sticker is on the front of the protective clear plastic cover.

[Back cover and labels
A Verve Records release; Originally released in 1971 on Impulse! Records © 2023 UMG Recordings, Inc.

[Back cover
Distributed by Universal Music Enterprises, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

[Gatefold interior
(Tracks A1 to B1) Recorded November 8, 1970, Dix Hills, New York
(Track B2) Recorded July 4, 1970, in performance at The Village Gate, New York City

[Hype sticker
· Mastered from the original analog tapes by top mastering engineers
· Manufactured at Quality Record Pressings (QRP) on 180 gram vinyl
· Tip-On gatefold sleeves printed on high-grade board

On the back cover, the instruments played by each musician and some credits and names may be different to the gatefold interior. The latter has been used.

Runouts are etched except "STERLING" is stamped.

Record Company Universal Music
Record Company UMG Recordings, Inc.
Record Company Acoustic Sounds
Distributed By Universal Music Enterprises
Manufactured By Quality Record Pressings
Copyright (c) UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pressed By Quality Record Pressings
Printed By Stoughton Printing Co.
Recorded At Dix Hills, N.Y.
Recorded At Village Gate
Produced At Coltrane Records
Mastered At Sterling Sound
Lacquer Cut At Sterling Sound

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