Alice Coltrane

There was a moment when I was reading a lot about Alice Coltrane and I was surprised to look back and not see I'd written about her on my music blog. I did quote the beginning of a book on her on another blog:

Portrait of Devotion: The spiritual life of Alice Coltrane by Shankari C. Adams

The introduction starts: “It was August 1975; a group of us had gone to a music hall in Northern California to hear Alice Coltrane perform in concert. Certain recreational activities, such as drinking and smoking, had been banned from the evening venue. This allowed for a higher vibrational energy to fill the room’s atmosphere. It felt clean and clear. Subsequently, the consciousness of those present felt elevated. The audience was seated and filled with joyful expectation.”

I have two friends who are really into hallucinogens and I feel I get high enough meditating a lot. 

I read about this album where she's just singing devotionally: Kirtan: Turiya Sings (spotify). Today I'm listening to Translinear Light (spotify). 

She's sort of having a renaissance of appreciation. With the venial lying grifting felonious regime leading America. I'm not a Hindu, but I appreciate her music. 

Links:

Universal Consciousness Review

By deifying Alice Coltrane, we’re missing out on the actual idiosyncratic person she was LA Times

‘Tragedy to transcendence’ Guardian