The tone of the original Turiya Sings is as certain and spectral as anything associated with the Coltrane name. Yet the power of this music is elemental. In the aching shimmer of these hymns, which evoke both South Indian classical music and the Black church, you can hear Coltrane’s life coursing through: her journey from gospel accompanist to jazz prodigy, the drama of the European classical music she loved, the soulful melodies of her Detroit youth, grief and exaltation. Though she used relatively spare components-the subtitle of the original album cover read, “Devotional Songs in Original Composition with Organ, Strings and Synthesizer”-they contain an unusual, self-contained grandeur. Luxuriating in every prayerful syllable, naming deities like Krishna and Ramachandra, Coltrane made a small number of the tapes available to her students and Vedantic Center visitors. Having left the commercial music industry behind, she released these uncanny compositions based on Hindu devotionals, or bhajans, on cassette through her Vedantic Center’s publishing imprint, Avatar Book Institute. Turiya Sings was the first album she made alone. Coltrane spent the second half of the 1970s releasing revelatory albums like 1976’s Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana and 1977’s Transcendence, which fulfilled and challenged her major-label recording contract with manifestations of her Universal Consciousness. They make you believe things you otherwise wouldn’t they may even facilitate the process of temporarily suspending fear. Whether in her glittering post-bop or her orchestral proto-noise psychedelia, Coltrane’s compositions make you feel connected to yourself and the world with preternatural clarity. But a sense of spiritual awe suffused her music from her 1968 debut as bandleader onward. “This longing within the depths of my heart was soon acknowledged, for within a short period of time I experienced the first rays of illumination and spiritual re-awakening.”Ĭoltrane is still best known for her 1971 record bearing Satchidananda’s name, which mixed cascading harp and droning tanpura with Pharoah Sanders’ expressive saxophone. In later years, she would further her musical attributes by including organ, harp and synthesizer to her accomplishments.“Several years ago, following a long period of elementary meditating and reading of some of the diverse books on spirituality and world religions, I felt the deepest transcendental longing to realize the Supreme Lord,” Coltrane wrote in her spiritual autobiography, Monument Eternal, in 1977. Her skills and abilities were highly enhanced when she began playing piano and organ for the gospel choir, and for the junior and senior choirs at her church. She graduated from high school with a scholarship to the Detroit Institute of Technology however, her musical achievements began to echo throughout the city, to the extent that she played in many music halls, choirs and churches, for various occasions as weddings, funerals, and religious programs. Although, with jazz music, you are allowed to develop your own creativity, improvisation and expression. Subsequent to the completion of her studies, she said, The classical artist must respectfully recreate the composer's meaning. I will always appreciate it with a kind remembrance and great esteem. At that time, I discovered it to be a truly profound music with a highly intellectual ambiance. She once said: ∼lassical music for me, was an extensive, technical study for many years. Subsequently, she enrolled in a more advanced study of the music of Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Stravinsky and Tschaikowsky. She consistently and diligently practiced and studied classical music. Alice became interested in music and began her study of the piano at the age of seven. She was born and raised in the religious family of Solon and Anne McLeod in Detroit, Michigan, once hailed as a major musical capitol. The musical offerings cover an eclectic variety of artistic expressions recorded on ABC Impulse, Warner Bros., and Impulse- Universal. It is lauded throughout the United States as well as internationally where it has received great acclaim. For more than five decades, the Coltrane name remains at the forefront of modern music.
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