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Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda 'The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda' (Luaka Bop)
Got a high tolerance for other people’s spirituality? You’re in luck: this is, at times, one of the year’s most beautiful releases. These tracks are all taken from the period between 1982 and 1995, when the highly influential underground musician Alice Coltrane (wife of John and great-aunt of Flying Lotus) ran a spiritual community. Here, you can hear Hindu chants and sitars, gospel and soul tonality, slowly rising ambient synthesiser tones and blissful chord changes. You may find it tough to get past the religiosity, but if you can, there’s real magic here. Joe Muggs
7/10
