ALice Coltrane world Galaxy ABC/Impulse AS-9218 'Peter Max' Psych Cover
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ALice Coltrane ~ world Galaxy ~ ABC/Impulse AS-9218 ~ 'Peter Max' Psych Cover.
Cover is m- with only minor ring wear. Record is m- playing excellent throughout.
Rare 'Peter Max' Cover. Swami Satchindananda narrative and Base Violin Psych riff on 'A love Supreme'.
Alice Coltrane ~ piano, organ, harp, tamboura, and percussion.
Avant Garde.
all music rounup
Alice Coltrane had become a musical world unto herself by the time she issued World Galaxy, recorded in late 1971. With jazz-rock fusion
taking over the mainstream and the terminal avant-garde heading over to Europe, Coltrane stubbornly forged an insistent, ever-evolving
brand of spiritual jazz that bore her own signature as much as it did her late husband's influence. Coltrane herself plays piano, harp, and
organ on this date, sometimes within a single track, as she does on her glorious post-modal reworking of "My Favorite Things." The jazz
modalism Coltrane presents on "Galaxy Around Olodumare" is quickly undone by Lowe in his solo and reconstructed into polyphony by the
string section; it's remarkable. The harp work on "Galaxy in Turiya" (Alice's religious name) is among her most beautiful, creating her own
wash of color and dynamic for the strings to fall like water from the sky into her mix. As colors shift and change, the rhythm section
responds, and focuses them in the prism of Coltrane's textured harpistry. The album closes with another John Coltrane signature, "A Love
Supreme," here given an out of this world treatment by the band with Jenkins playing full force through the middle of both channels. There
is a narration by Coltrane's guru inside it, a poem really, spoken by the great guru Satchidananda, which no doubt would have moved John
Coltrane, but the real news is Alice's killer, funky breakbeat organ solo that covers the tune top to bottom in blues, in stark contrast to
Jenkins' improvisation. This set may take some getting used to for some, but it's easily one of the strongest records Alice Coltrane ever
released, and one of the finest moments in jazz from the early '70s.
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