Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane(nytimes.com)

70 pointsby tintinnabula4 anni fa19 comments

Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/arts/music/alice-coltrane-jazz-music.html

21 comments

ipnon4 anni fa

Coltrane's influence reaches as far as the underground "bass music" sound of the 2010s as invented by her nephew Flying Lotus, and now the Top 40 is frequented by her ashram protege Doja Cat. Flying Lotus opened his Essential Mix with "Galaxy In Turiya".

https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2008-11-29_-_Flying_Lotus_-_Essent...

atdrummond4 anni fa

Doha Cat being associated always confused me. Alice did not actively run the ashram past 1995. Doja was born in 1995. How could Alice have had any significant impact (as a person, not as an artist) on Doja Cat’s career and especially early growth as an artist? It feels like name dropping.

erokar4 anni fa

A mushroom trip this summer opened my ears to Alice Coltrane. I walked out into a garden as this song was playing randomly from a playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn36bzFZeg4&ab_channel=Alice... (Coltrane at her more serene).

I had a magical moment where I was listening to her music and looking up at the sky through the tree crowns. After that I've been listening to her regularly.

aaronlevin4 anni fa

Alice Coltrane rocks.

ltrojanowski4 anni fa

She is so great. Go listen to this for a couple of minutes of musical heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMuDWDVd20

bloopernova4 anni fa

I hadn't seen this format of article before, it feels like the old web in ways.

mountaintimefrm4 anni fa

Can't recommend enough the song "Lovely Sky Boat"

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bhedgeoser4 anni fa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhmwChxResw

daviddaviddavid4 anni fa

As a fan of Alice Coltrane, it's kind of frustrating that NYT would bother to put this together and interview all these people and then put these tiny 30 second, completely-out-of-context audio snippets. I encourage anyone who checks the article out to listen to the complete tracks. What can you possibly get out of a 30 second clip?!

michaelwww4 anni fa

504 anni fa

Re: spiritually-inspired music, see also Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas. A few of my favorites:

Leon Thomas's "The Creator Has a Master Plan": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYnvw-97II

Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas's "Sun Song": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ07KWhbIj8

On the topic, not really in the same lineage as the above, but you might like a favorite album of mine, Good God! Apocryphal Hymns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSRcvn7l0KI&list=OLAK5uy_ldI...

tootie4 anni fa

I'm assuming it's a licensing issue. More than snippets isn't "fair use"

mtalantikite4 anni fa

I agree, it might even be off-putting for some listeners to hear a random bit of her music out of context from the rest of the track (or even album).

"Journey in Satchidananda" I'm pretty sure is my favorite album of all time. I first heard it when I was maybe 16, and 20+ years later I still listen to it at least a few times per month. I'd suggest anyone that wants to listen to her music to put that one on and listen to it the whole way through. The album is both approachable and gorgeous.

danielvaughn4 anni fa

The actual song Journey in Satchidananda is one of my favorite pieces of music.

I went down a rabbit hole one afternoon finding various live performances of it, since it seemed so well-suited for extended jazz renditions. Here’s my favorite of the bunch:

https://youtu.be/w2bGe8kBPS4

belfalas4 anni fa

For the gentle people out there wondering what is Satchidananda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satcitananda

PaulDavisThe1st4 anni fa

It seems also be a reference to the self-named Swami Satchidananda who provided Alice Coltrane with some guidance and help after the death of her husband.

belfalas4 anni fa

The title is a play on words referencing the name of the Swami. Alice 'took a journey' in Satchitananda (guided by the Swami) which helped her through the mourning process.

mtalantikite4 anni fa

Vishnu Wood, who played on the album (and used to host a jam session we'd go to when I was in college), did an interview with Rolling Stone about it. [1] His guru was (is?) Satchitananda and he introduced her to him.

Satchitananda's Integral Yoga space is still in Manhattan and hosts workshops there (I took one with Laraaji there once).

[1] https://vishuwood-safarieast.com/rolling-stone-magazine-inte...

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