#journey in satchidananda by alice coltrane

[teddytoroa]

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?

[jt1674]

[909th]

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

[iamlisteningto]

Alice Coltrane's Journey In Satchidananda

[jazzdailyblog]

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.…

[sh3nlong-promakh0s]

listening to alice coltrane rn

journey in satchidananda with pharoah sanders is ASDFLKASLKGJ heavenly listening holy shiit this is exactly what i needed

[forever70s]

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda LP (1975)

[kemetic-dreams]

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

[mywifeleftme]

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.

These are so stupid

Blogs tagged "this is so stupid"

[radiophd]

alice coltrane -- journey in satchidananda [live, 1971]

[gorey]

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

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

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!)

[jt1674]

[snackpointcharlie]

Music from elsewhere and beyond for you to tune in, turn on, freak out, and go deep into the heart of creation at the center of the universe. Or something. 10pm tonight on WGXC, 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley and streaming 24/7 at wgxc.org or UPDATE: download the podcast at the link below

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 136 - 2024.04.03 https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/asfrfb [ ^ click for download ^ ]

PLAYLIST

1) Alice Coltrane - “Journey in Satchidananda” from THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/21/alice-coltrane-the-carnegie-hall-concert/

(underbed throughout:) Pinchas Gurevich - “Whataboutism”

2) Gus Vali - “Telly” from CHIMERA - A FANTASY IN JAZZ ROCK MID-EAST SOUNDS https://www.discogs.com/release/2391349-Gus-Vali-Chimera

3) John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars - “I Talk to the Spirits” from FULL CIRCLE https://www.discogs.com/release/4433050-John-Sinclair-His-Blues-Scholars-Featuring-Wayne-Kramer-Full-Circle

4) Jesse Paul Miller - “Ancient Wave Travelers” from DREAM BOXES AND PSYCHIC MICROPHONES • RADIO AND OTHER SOUNDS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA 2008 - 2017 https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/dream-boxes-and-psychic-microphones-radio-and-other-sounds-from-southeast-asia-2008-2017

5) Ron English - “Bees” from JOHN SINCLAIR PRESENTS DETROIT ARTISTS WORKSHOP https://strut.bandcamp.com/album/john-sinclair-presents-detroit-artists-workshop

6) Dimi Mint Abba and Nema Mint Choueikh w/Luleide ould Dendenni, Mohamed ould Deddah ould Choueikh, and Mohamed ould Seymali - excerpt from MOROCCAN SAHRAOUI EVENT (A MYSTERY TAPE FROM MAURITANIA) https://hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-mystery-tape-from-mauritania

7) Khruangbin - “May Ninth” from A LA SALA https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/a-la-sala

8) Street Musician of Yogyakarta - “Asoi” from STREET MUSICIANS OF YOGYAKARTA https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/street-musicians-of-yogyakarta

9) Kyle Tierce - “Interlocking Questions” from THE FIVE FINGERS OF A DOG (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) https://superspectrum.bandcamp.com/album/the-five-fingers-of-a-dog-original-soundtrack

10) Jesse Paul Miller - “Radio Cambodia” from DREAM BOXES AND PSYCHIC MICROPHONES • RADIO AND OTHER SOUNDS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA 2008 - 2017 https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/dream-boxes-and-psychic-microphones-radio-and-other-sounds-from-southeast-asia-2008-2017

11) Nadah El Shazly & Elvin Brandhi - CAIRO ???” from POLLUTION OPERA https://pollutionopera.bandcamp.com/album/pollution-opera

12) Ludwig Berger - “Apparent Heart” from SPECIES LONELINESS https://ludwigberger.bandcamp.com/album/species-loneliness

13) Faust - “Stay or Leave” from MOMENTAUFNAHME IV https://faust.bandcamp.com/album/momentaufnahme-iv-2

14) La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - “31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM (a section of Map of 49's Dream the Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery)” from 31 VII 69 10:26-10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM THE VOLGA DELTA (aka THE BLACK ALBUM) https://www.melafoundation.org/lmy.htm https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/la-monte-young-marian-zazeela

15) Ragnar Johnson & Jessica Mayer – “Mo-mo” from SPIRIT CRY FLUTES AND BAMBOO JEWS HARPS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA : EASTERN HIGHLANDS & MADANG https://ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-cry-flutes-and-bamboo-jews-harps-from-papua-new-guinea-eastern-highlands-and-madang

16) Lea Bertucci - “Of Shadow and Substance (excerpt)” from OF SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/of-shadow-and-substance

17) John Bence - Raphael, Archangel of Tiphareth” from ARCHANGELS https://johnbence.bandcamp.com/album/archangels

18) Jesse Paul Miller - “Radio Wat Thailand I&II” from DREAM BOXES AND PSYCHIC MICROPHONES • RADIO AND OTHER SOUNDS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA 2008 - 2017 https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/dream-boxes-and-psychic-microphones-radio-and-other-sounds-from-southeast-asia-2008-2017

[bubblesandgutz]

Every Record I Own - Day 789: Alice Coltrane Journey In Satchidananda

I'm sure I've mentioned it at some point over the course of these hundreds of posts, but I'll mention it again---one of the things I miss from the pre-streaming era is how you would go on tour and you would only have so many options for music. When I first started touring with bands, you just brought a half-dozen cassettes. Then it turned into bringing a binder of CDs. Then it turned into bringing an iPod. With each step, you could travel with more of your music library. While that was good for battling stagnation, it also meant that tours stopped having a particular soundtrack. In the age of streaming, we rarely listen to the same album twice in the van.

So when Russian Circles went to Europe for a six-week tour in Spring '22, I decided early on that I was going to have Alice Coltrane's Journey In Satchidananda as my default headphone music. I had just started getting into the record, and it seemed like a good album to throw on in quiet hotel rooms and long van rides.

Journey In Satchidananda wasn't the first Alice Coltrane record I've added to my collection, but it's become my favorite. It's far more straightforward and approachable than A Monastic Trio and far more stripped down than Universal Consciousness. Sure, it's still a jazz record, but it embraces a kind of minimalism that creates palpable hooks. And the Eastern flair in melodies and instrumentation gives it some of that classic late '60s / early '70s exoticism that just begs for lava lamps, low lights, and water pipes.

So it was a great winding-down-at-the-end-of-the-night album on tour. And I got a fair amount of mileage out of the actual LP when I was home. Then SUMAC went out on a summer tour and we wound up playing Journey In Satchidananda over the house PA during changeovers. It was easily my most played album last year.

So ultimately, my goal of creating a soundtrack to our spring tour kinda worked, though ultimately Journey In Satchidananda really just reminds me of the entirety of 2022.