Journey in Satchidananda

by Alice Coltrane

Journey in Satchidananda cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1971
  • Label: Impulse!, ABC
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:13
  • Community rating: 4.54/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Journey in Satchidananda' synthesizes spiritual jazz with the meditative drones and structures of Indian classical music, establishing a new sonic language for devotional expression. Employing instruments like the tanpura and oud alongside a post-bop rhythm section, the album treats modal improvisation and drone as the fundamental architecture for a musical journey toward spiritual transcendence.

Genres

Descriptors: spirituality, harp, ambient, droning, classic

Tracklist

  1. Journey In Satchidananda (6:36)
  2. Shiva-Loka (6:33)
  3. Stopover Bombay (2:52)
  4. Something About John Coltrane (9:40)
  5. Isis And Osiris - Live At Village Gate, NY, 1970 (11:32)

Credits

  • Alice Coltrane - harp, piano, Primary Artist
  • Pharoah Sanders - soprano saxophone, percussion, Primary Artist
  • Cecil McBee - double bass
  • Rashied Ali - drums
  • Tulsi Sen Gupta - tanpura
  • Majid Shabazz - bells, tambourine
  • Charlie Haden - double bass, Bass
  • Vishnu Wood - oud
  • Ed Michel - producer

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