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ALICE COLTRANE

A Monastic Trio (Verve by Request) (2024 Reissue)

180g LP - £34.99 | Buy
Recorded in 1968 and intended as a tribute to her late husband, Alice Coltrane is supported in her first solo outing by Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Rash...
ALICE COLTRANE

The Carnegie Hall Concert

2lp - £37.99 | Buy
2cd - £14.99 | Buy
A previously unreleased, killer live recording from 1971.
ALICE COLTRANE

LORD OF LORDS (2024 Reissue)

deluxe 180g lp in gatefold sleeve - £31.99 | Buy
1973 5-track release backed by a 16-piece string orchestra.
ALICE COLTRANE

Journey in Satchidananda (Acoustic Sounds Series)

180g lp in deluxe gatefold sleeve - £39.99 | Buy
Alice Coltrane’s fourth Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.
World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (2023 Repress)
  1. Om Rama
  2. Om Shanti
  3. Rama Rama
  4. Rama Guru
  5. Hari Narayan
  6. Journey to Satchidananda
  7. Er Ra
  8. Keshava Murahara
  9. Krishna Japaye*
  10. Rama Katha

ALICE COLTRANE

World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (2023 Repress)

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  • 2lp

    Released: 21st Apr 2023

    £32.99
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our go-to record whether in the shop, playing out, or with friends round – these works are, without hyperbole, the creations of pure, inventive, otherworldly genius.

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.