{"id":26414,"date":"2025-02-07T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26414"},"modified":"2025-06-28T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:56:31","slug":"music-turiya-sings-with-strings-alice-coltrane-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26414","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Turiya Sings (With Strings!), Alice Coltrane, 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Gaaaah!!! How could I draft and publish this post and not actually link to the music<\/em>!? Beats me\u2026 but that appears to be what I did. Oh dear\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Intended for preservation.\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Cy, whoever they may be, for posting this \u2018original release\u2019 version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to say I\u2019m not just perplexed – even though it\u2019s explained in the liner notes – but I\u2019m angry, that the much more recent \u2018official\u2019 release of Turiya Sings<\/em>, on Impulse, 2021, stripped away the strings. Losing some of the synths? I could live with that. But I want to hear the strings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I understand what Ravi Coltrane is saying, when he explains his reasons for doing so\u2026* But surely they could have, and indeed should<\/em> have<\/em>, put out a set including both<\/em> versions. It\u2019s possible that wasn\u2019t possible. I\u2019ve read that the full\/original master tapes have proven elusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, returning to the theme of the sad missed opportunity, I think, given her history – mostly to do with being in the shadow of her more famed husband – it\u2019s quite astonishing that even her own progeny, even if by force of circumstance, collude in the continued \u2018curation\u2019 (or, as I see it, tampering<\/em>) that has beset some of Alice\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The negative reaction to what Alice did with some of her husband\u2019s music, most specifically on the brilliant – but much maligned (at the time) – Infinity<\/em>, is a form of antecedent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe there is a CD version of the full Alice mix – with strings\/synth – on the Italian B. Free label. I\u2019m trying to get a copy. I\u2019ve also read that numerous unofficial releases of the original cassette version have been made, over the years. But, in the meantime, at least the music is online, so we can hear what Alice intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* \u201cWhile producing her last Impulse release, Translinear Light<\/em>, I came across some mixes of tracks from Turiya Sings<\/em> that did not include the overdubbed material and only featured Alice\u2019s voice and her accompaniment on Wurlitzer organ. As dynamic and bold as the original version is, hearing my mother sing and play in this stripped-down, intimate setting revealed the true heart and soul of these songs. In this form, I could hear every nuance and inflection in her vocal performance and feel the weight of her rock-solid pulse and timing and (dare I say it) groove on the Wurlitzer. And, most importantly, in this setting, I felt the greatest sense of her passion, devotion, and exaltation in singing these songs in praise of the Supreme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that moment, I knew people needed to hear Turiya Sings<\/em> in this context.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ravi Coltrane, Turiya Sings<\/em> liner notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Gaaaah!!! How could I draft and publish this post and not actually link to the music!? Beats me\u2026 but that appears to be what I did. Oh dear\u2026 Thanks to Cy, whoever they may be, for posting this \u2018original release\u2019 version. I have to say I\u2019m not just perplexed – even though it\u2019s explained … <\/p>\n

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