thinking about how i am frequently homesick for an era that didnt even exist. sometimes i see it in art or hear it in music and i think man i miss those times. but those times never existed and even if they did i wasnt even born yet. do you get it?
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Alice Coltrane, "Journey In Satchindananda"
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i’ve gotten into the habit of driving down to the beach alone and listening to albums all day on saturdays and it’s like the only thing i’ve been consistently looking forward to lol
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Alice Coltrane's Journey In Satchidananda
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Alice Coltrane: The Spiritual Odyssey of Jazz's Mystical Visionary
Introduction:
Alice Coltrane was a pioneer in blending the worlds of jazz and spirituality. Her journey from a talented jazz pianist to a revered spiritual leader is a testament to her unique vision and relentless pursuit of artistic and spiritual transcendence. Through her music, she explored the depths of human consciousness, drawing from a deep well of religious and philosophical influences.…
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listening to alice coltrane rn
journey in satchidananda with pharoah sanders is ASDFLKASLKGJ heavenly listening holy shiit this is exactly what i needed
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Day Eight Hundred and Eleven
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Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda LP (1975)
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Spiritual jazz (or astral jazz)[1] is a sub-genre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s. The genre is hard to characterize musically but draws from free, avant-garde and modal jazz and thematically focuses on transcendence and spirituality. John Coltrane's 1965 album A Love Supreme is considered landmark in the genre.
Origins
Pharoah Sanders in 1981.
Critics usually associate spiritual jazz with the 1960s but the beginnings of the genre can be traced to the 1940s and 1950s in works such as Black, Brown and Beige by Duke Ellington, Zodiac Suite by Mary Lou Williams, and Jazz at the Vespers by George Lewis.
During the 1960s in the United States, the civil rights movement was occurring, causing societal change and political movements. As a result, African-American people gained more freedom to celebrate their culture and to express themselves religiously. This led to a desire to push the conventions of jazz, with some artists choosing to search for transcendence and spirituality in their music.
John Coltrane's 1965 album A Love Supreme is generally considered the genesis of spiritual jazz though Coltrane can be heard developing the sound on the song "Spiritual" recorded four years earlier. Treblezine wrote "Spiritual jazz begins, essentially, with John Coltrane," while Pitchfork wrote "This musical exploration [of spirituality] was epitomized by tenor saxophonist John Coltrane". A Love Supreme and other works by John Coltrane inspired other jazz musicians to create music searching for transcendence. For example, Pharoah Sanders and Don Cherry were considered to have taken inspiration from Coltrane's spiritual works.
After John Coltrane's death in 1967, his wife Alice Coltrane and Sanders—both who had previously played with Coltrane—were some of the first to continue the sound of the genre. Coltrane's 1971 album Journey in Satchidananda combined spiritual jazz with influences from Hindustani classical music, after her journey into spirituality with help from Swami Satchidananda. Journey in Satchidananda used ragas, harps, sitars, and ouds to achieve its sound. Pharoah Sanders took inspiration from Arabic, Indian, and Afro-Cuban music to create early spiritual jazz albums, including Tauhid (1967) and Karma
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200 of my favorite albums that I swear by, from any genre - limited to one per artist. I always wanted to do this since the start of the decade and finally got around to it. I’ve had a lot of different musical obsessions up to this point and periods where i was deep into specific genres so I tried to make sure all of that was represented here. Overall it’s a mix of personal classics that I go back to constantly, albums that helped form my taste, and some recently stuff I love. Didn’t want to stress too much over the order, but i’d say the first 50ish are pretty accurate. I’ll post the list below, and a version of the charts with the titles included. Let me know what you think - any favorites here? What would some of your picks be? Let me know. Peace.
Charts with album titles included
1. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
3. Aesop Rock - Labor Days
4. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
5. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
6. MF DOOM - MM..Food
7. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
8. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
9. Converge - Jane Doe
10. Billy Woods & Blockhead - Dour Candy
11. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
12. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - The Main Ingredient
13. Portishead - Dummy
14. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
15. Björk - Vespertine
16. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
17. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
18. Isis - Wavering Radiant
19. The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
20. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
21. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
22. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
23. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
24. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
25. Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
26. Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
27. OutKast - ATLiens
28. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
29. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
30. Dälek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
31. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
32. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
33. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
34. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
35. Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
36. Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside
37. Armand Hammer - Paraffin
38. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
39. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
40. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞
41. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
42. Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction
43. Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness
44. Orchid - Orchid
45. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
46. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
47. Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
48. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
49. Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
50. Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
51. Milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?!
52. Boris - Flood
53. Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
54. Dr. Yen Lo - Days With Dr. Yen Lo
55. Avantdale Bowling Club - Avantdale Bowling Club
56. zeroh - awfulalterations
57. toe - For Long Tomorrow
58. Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty
59. Dark Time Sunshine - ANX
60. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
61. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
62. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
63. Unwound - Repetition
64. Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East
65. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
66. Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
67. Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
68. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange
69. Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
70. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
71. Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
72. J Dilla - Donuts
73. Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language
74. D'Angelo - Voodoo
75. Jam Baxter - ...So We Ate Them Whole
76. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
77. Danny Brown - XXX (Deluxe Edition)
78. Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
79. Sonic Sum - The Sanity Annex
80. Death - Symbolic
81. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
82. Mach-Hommy - DUMPMEISTER
83. Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
84. Nas - Illmatic
85. Grant Green - Idle Moments
86. Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth
87. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
88. O.C. - Word...Life
89. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
90. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
91. Mr Key & Greenwood Sharps - Yesterday's Futures
92. Little Brother - The Listening
93. Max Roach - Members, Don't Git Weary
94. Cult Favorite - FOR MADMEN ONLY
95. Deftones - White Pony
96. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
97. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
98. Prince - Sign o' the Times
99. Pageninetynine - Document #8
100. Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Manger on McNichols
101. NoMeansNo - Wrong
102. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
103. Baroness - Blue Record
104. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
105. Alcest - Écailles de lune
106. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
107. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
108. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute To Dilla
109. Aphex Twin - druqks
110. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
111. Siah & Yeshua dapoED - The Visualz Anthology
112. Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
113. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
114. Juggaknots - Re:Release
115. The Cure - Pornography
116. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
117. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
118. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
119. Blu - Below the Heavens
120. Ohbliv - Retrospective
121. Shibusashirazu Orchestra - 渋星 (=Shibuboshi)
122. United Nations - The Next Four Years
123. Mobb Deep - The Infamous
124. The Chariot - Long Live
125. Serengeti - Ajai
126. Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
127. Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Deluxe Version)
128. Autechre - LP5
129. Lil Ugly Mane - THIRD SIDE OF THE TAPE
130. Roc Marciano - Reloaded
131. Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
132. Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
133. Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Hella Personal Film Festival
134. Melt-Banana - Fetch
135. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
136. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
137. Nujabes - Modal Soul
138. Nails - Unsilent Death
139. Cavalier - Private Stock
140. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
141. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
142. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
143. Envy - Insomniac Doze
144. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
145. The Doppelgangaz - Lone Sharks
146. System of a Down - Toxicity
147. letlive - Fake History
148. Goodie Mob - Soul Food
149. Death Grips - Ex Military
150. Jeromes Dream - Seeing Means More Than Safety
151. Standing On The Corner - Red Burns
152. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
153. maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
154. Oddisee - The Good Fight
155. Krallice - Years Past Matter
156. tricot - T H E
157. Gorguts - Obscura
158. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
159. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
160. Sade - Love Deluxe
161. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
162. The Fall of Troy - Doppelgänger
163. Batsumi - Batsumi
164. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
165. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
166. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Worse Than Alone
167. Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind
168. Earl Sweatshirt - some rap songs
169. Burial - Untrue
170. Mgła - Exercises in futility
171. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
172. Fugazi - Red Medicine
173. Lord Finesse - The Awakening
174. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway
175. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
176. The Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Awakening
177. Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
178. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
179. Bear vs Shark – Right Now, You're In The Best Of Hands
180. Wormrot - Voices
181. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
182. Swans - Swans Are Dead: Live '95-'97
183. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
184. AFI - The Art of Drowning
185. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
186. Botch - We Are the Romans
187. NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM - Éons
188. Sigur Ros - Takk...
189. Rubberoom - Architechnology
190. Herbie Hancock - Sextant
191. Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
192. Oh No - Oh No Vs. Now-Again
193. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
194. Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
195. Loma Prieta - I.V.
196. Defcee - Lacuna
197. Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth
198. Brutus - Nest
199. Bruno Pernadas - Those Who Throw Objects At The Crocodiles...
200. The Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed
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THE END
Stats
I'm a bit of a goon for stats and lists, so as I close the book on this project, here are a few highlights.
Total word count: 181,231
Average review length: 497 words
Longest review: 1,761 words (138: Various Artists // Experiments in Destiny)
Shortest review: 131 words (303: Alice Coltrane // Journey in Satchidananda)
Most reviewed decade: 1970s (110)
Firstest review: Various Artists // Keep on Truckin' (1)
Lastest review: Patti Smith // Horses (365)
Middlest review: [TIE] Sandy Denny & the Strawbs // All Our Own Work (177) & Various Artists // The Paths of Pain: The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960–68 (178)
Age: 37
Wives left: 0
Twelve of my favourites
1: Various Artists // Keep on Truckin': How a series of TV commercials made Americans crazy for novelty truck driving songs.
32: The Who // Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy: A free, online personality quiz.
59: Nass El Ghiwane // Nass El Ghiwane: Moroccan legends, quibbling about hype stickers, and the gift of trances.
90: Joe Coleman // Infernal Machine: Exploring a well-remunerated "Outsider artist" and his fixation on serial killers (feat. the craziest picture disc I've ever seen).
92: Aquariana // Aquariana: Your introduction to Father Yod and the Source Family cult, plus some weirdo piano ballads.
179: Elvis Presley // The Sun Collection: I asked 17 of my friends (and my grandma) for their opinions on Elvis.
199: Zero Kama // Zero Kama: In 1983, Austrian Psychic TV-devotee Zoe DeWitt snuck into a charnel house and scavenged a pile of human bones, which she then fashioned into musical instruments. This is the music that resulted.
209: Rob Hertner // Bucky's Heartaches: I research a private press country record by a Texan expat in London, and unearth his life as a crackpot political figure in Britain and connections to a terrorist militia group.
227: Jim Sullivan // U.F.O.: A guide to six lesser-known private press folkies, prepared with the assistance of antiquarian D. John Christie.
256: Maria Tănase // I: Romania's answer to Edith Piaf, and a figure much in need of rediscovery.
270: Purple Mountains // Purple Mountains: On David Berman's last work, and writing through pain.
319: Gilbert Bécaud // Incroyablement: A lovestruck fool, but no dummy. Some thoughts on an irrepressible chansonnier.
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top 9 listened to in 2023 ambiguously tagged by @scallioncreamcheesebagel hehehe. in no particular order:
1. Transangelic Exodus - Ezra Furman
2. Journey Into Satchidananda - Alice Coltrane
3. Spiraling - Special Interest
4. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
5. Miracle-Level - Deerhoof
6. Mezzanine - Massive Attack
7. What's Your Pleasure? - Jessie Ware
8. SAVED! - Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
9. Week of Charm - Fern Mayo
this was so tough there's so many honorable mentions I'm not even gonna list them
tagging: @endure @executing @beastofwant @ignoregreif @incinerated @anchoress @repulsion @peatbogbody @oy-gayvalt @rainboas @werebutch @discworldwitches I'm just rattling off as many mutuals as I can think of literally if you see this and wanna do it do it
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Mikaela Davis & Southern Star + Rich Ruth - Colony, Woodstock, New York, June 27, 2024
I had the good fortune to catch harpist Mikaela Davis and her killer band Southern Star out here in Colorado a few weeks back. And it was terrific. Davis has plenty of accessible, well-nigh poppy material, but she and her cohorts love to jam in a live setting, often setting off for exploratory/expansive territories.
This excellent Mr. Kliked tape from earlier in the summer captures a pretty similar set to the one I saw — check out the radical trip through "Leave It Alone," which incorporates easygoing country rock, Drums/Space maneuvers, mystical "Journey In Satchidananda" moves and more (is today Alice Coltrane's birthday? I guess it is!). Oh and the closing cover of the Dead's "Bird Song" is remarkable, too (is today the 52nd anniversary of the greatest "Bird Song" ever? I guess it is!). Catch the Southern Star if you can!
And hey, complete this listening experience with a great recording of Rich Ruth and his band, who opened up the show. Ruth's last few records have been ambitious spiritual jazz / post rock blends, and it seems like he's up to the task of pulling it all off live. Davis and her harp show up on his latest LP, Water Still Flows, and she sits in on a few tunes up in Woodstock, too. Excellent. (Oh and hey again, good timing — Rich is the latest guest on Aquarium Drunkard's Transmissions podcast!)
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