View basket “The Carnegie Hall Concert” has been added to your basket. Universal Consciousness Alice Coltrane SKU: SV070 Barcode: 857176003706 25.00 £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Superior Viaduct Released Date: 11th May 2015 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Originally released on Impulse! in 1971, Universal Consciousness is a major turning point in Alice Coltrane’s momentous career. While her previous albums pushed the limits of spiritual free-jazz and featured much of her late husband’s band, Universal Consciousness expands the harpist / pianist’s compositional palette with organ and strings (working with Ornette Coleman). “Oh Allah” is the finest example of Coltrane’s new direction: tense violins dissolve into sublime organ solos and exquisite brushwork from long-time Mile Davis collaborator Jack DeJohnette. While the title track undulates with a fierce clamor, “Hare Krishna” showcases Coltrane’s uncanny ability for transcendent and slow-paced arrangements. In The Wire’s “100 Records That Set the World on Fire,” David Toop writes, “[Universal Consciousness] clearly connects to other dyspeptic jazz traditions—the organ trio, the soloists with strings— yet volleys them into outer space, ancient Egypt, the Ganges, the great beyond. The production is astounding, the quality of improvisation is riveting, the string arrangements are apocalyptic rather than saccharine, the balance of turbulence and calm a genuine dialectic that later mystic / exotic post-jazz copped out of pursuing. Her lack of constraint was dimly regarded by adherents of ’70s jazz and its masculine orthodoxies, yet Alice deserved better credit for virtuosity, originality, and the sheer will power needed to realized her vision.” This first-time vinyl reissue has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes. Artist Alice Coltrane Genre Jazz Label Superior Viaduct Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Universal Consciousness 2. Battle at Armageddon 3. Oh Allah 4. Hare Krishna 5. Sita Ram 6. 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