Have a listen to this beautiful soaring track by the late Alice Coltrane, “Om Shanti,” appearing on Luaka Bop’s forthcoming collection entitled World Spirituality Classics, Volume 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda.
In the early 1980s, jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane devoted herself to the Hindu tradition, adopting the name Swamini Turiyasangitananda and established the 48-acre Sai Anantam Ashram outside Los Angeles. There she continued to make deeply spiritual music—merging Vedic Chants with gospel-inspired singing on cassettes she released and distributed privately within the community. The release of The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda marks the first in Luaka Bop’s (a label founded by musician and record producer David Byrne) new series of spiritual music from around the world.
Alice Coltrane (née McLeod, August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya Alice Coltrane, was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, singer, composer, swamini, and the second wife of jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! Records and Universal Distribution.
Have a listen to this beautiful soaring track by the late Alice Coltrane, “Om Shanti,” appearing on Luaka Bop’s forthcoming collection entitled World Spirituality Classics, Volume 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda.
ResponderEliminarIn the early 1980s, jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane devoted herself to the Hindu tradition, adopting the name Swamini Turiyasangitananda and established the 48-acre Sai Anantam Ashram outside Los Angeles. There she continued to make deeply spiritual music—merging Vedic Chants with gospel-inspired singing on cassettes she released and distributed privately within the community. The release of The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda marks the first in Luaka Bop’s (a label founded by musician and record producer David Byrne) new series of spiritual music from around the world.
Alice Coltrane (née McLeod, August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya Alice Coltrane, was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, singer, composer, swamini, and the second wife of jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! Records and Universal Distribution.