Alice Coltrane albums POLLED

kinda think alice is above being weighed and judged and this thread idea makes me a little sad this partially because I am completely insane but also partially not

I AGREE.

Journey vs. UC is the question, I think.

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However I wanted to get you bitches talkin' about Alice. She is indeed a goddess, tho.

No one is above being weighed and judged.

We're Alice stans, so shoot us. :)

For me it's World Galaxy vs UC, Alex. However I think Lord of Lords has been highly overlooked! Her arrangement of "Goin' Home" is all sorts of fabulous and heartbreaking.

I haven't heard anything past the Trans duo actually. Do you Stans have any recommendations?

Gahhhh I forgot to include Eternity after The Elements!

anywho, Alex, I know some people have a hard time w/ "Glorious Chants" because of the synths, but I personally love it. It has an amazing choral/synth arrangement of the Journey to Satchidananda piece from World Galaxy as well as some surprisingly poppy stuff.

the only one i've heard past Illuminations is the last one, Translinear Light ... are the other ones readily available?

Oceanic Beloved is the key Alice moment for me, which is a bit straight up i kno, but Journey in Satchidananda is everything you heard it would be and oceans more besides. The remasters are beautiful, really physical sounding.

actually kind of difficult for me to have anything reasoned or reasonable or even enlightening probably

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yes, they are, tyler. Go get them now. Esp. the "Ptah, the El Daoud"/"Journey in Satchidananda"/"Universal Consciousness"/"World Galaxy" run of amazingness. And yes, the Impulse! remasters sound *amazing*

oh, i've heard all those -- love 'em! i just haven't heard the Transcendence, Transfiguration, Turiya Sings, Divine Songs, Infinite Chants, Glorious Chants stuff

you forgot eternity, butthole. i would have voted that.

and i thought elements was technically a joe henderson rec?

voted Transcendence just for kicks.

the names of some of the later stuff is really whetting my appetite a lot

tylerw, well Transcendence is my favorite out of all those. It's worth it for the title track alone.

Transfiguration is a bit too meandering for my tastes, but it does have "Prema" with overdubbed strings that are, essentially, the meaning of life.

xpost jaxon, I know! I love Eternity, esp. "Om Supreme" which is so delightfully 70s.

xxxp Yeah it is a Joe Henderson record.

It is Featuring Alice Coltrane though for whatever that's worth.

I think I should get the chance to re-do this poll :*(

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So which aborted version is this?

Transfiguration is a bit too meandering for my tastes, but it does have "Prema" with overdubbed strings that are, essentially, the meaning of life.

― Turangalila, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:48 (ten years ago) link

Spot on! Found a cut-out vinyl copy of this album tonight. The last minute or two of "Prema" where the strings take center stage is what God listens to each morning to get ready for His/Her/Their day.

Only six votes? Christ, the sheer state of 2009 ILM.

This could definitely be repolled.

Eternity is wonderful - Om Supreme is perhaps my single favourite Alice track. Really feeling the Huntingdon Ashram album lately, too...

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This could should definitely be repolled.

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Eternity is wonderful - Om Supreme is perhaps my single favourite Alice track.

Totally agree. Om Supreme is my favorite too, along with Galaxy In Turiya.

I have a hard time with the rough recording quality of Huntington Ashram and I’m usually not such a baby about such things

It kinda of makes me feel like a bunch of placer filtering through a pan or something

hmm maybe that's why I've never really clicked with that one

btw that live Sextet bootleg is still amazing, I'm still listening to it

Ptah the El Daoud is a classic. I think it’s been overlooked due to other albums getting the reissue treatment, but the playing is incredible and her bluesy piano ballad Turiya and Ramakrishna is one of the best of its type.

found this that is interesting. i think it was proposed that a Hammond being switched on/off was her method to pitch bend, but not according to a listing on amazon for her warners boxset:
"Alice’s instrument of choice was increasingly the Wurlitzer organ, specifically a 1971 Wurlitzer 805 Centura that included an Orbit III analog synthesizer with pitch-bending ability as one of its three manuals—a feature she used liberally and which further distinguished her sound.". . .

i, too, love that live show. don't think i have any other AC currently (had a cd-r with JiS and Ptah, but seem to have lost it in a move a few years ago). i need more
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i invite everyone to reassess her final album translinear light. it is magical.

also xp to omar: yeah, ptah totally rips. joe flippin` henderson feature for the win. i'm sure i've plugged it here before, but joe's album the elements from '74 features alice and charlie haden. highly recommended, `specially if you dug ptah.

also, while we're talking features, charlie's '76 album closeness has a duet with alice on harp. whole album's pretty good, but that's why you want to hear it; beautiful transcendent searching alice at her best.

I have a hard time with the rough recording quality of Huntington Ashram and I’m usually not such a baby about such things

having a relisten to huntington ashram presently and, uhh, yeah. it sounds idk. . . weird. i'm listening to this remaster on headphones and i keep turning my head thinking there's something over there (points). . . but it's just ron carter coming back in after the solo. also the bass must have been really mic'd up because it distorts more than i remember. hrmph.

i still maintain that 'i have suffered' is one of her best despite all that.