#Alice Coltrane Turiya Sings Reissue Announced

In the early 1980s, Alice Coltrane recorded a collection of devotional songs with just her voice and a Wurlitzer organ. She expanded the recordings with synthesizers, strings, and sound effects and, in 1982, released the songs on the cassette Turiya Sings for her community at the Vedantic Center in California.

Some years ago, Ravi Coltrane discovered his mother’s original, pared-back recordings, which are now being released as Kirtan: Turiya Sings. The reissue is out July 16 (via Impulse!/UMe). Below, hear the song “Krishna Krishna.”

“In this setting I felt the greatest sense of her passion, devotion and exaltation in singing these songs in praise of the Supreme. In that moment, I knew people needed to hear Turiya Sings in this context,” Ravi Coltrane said in a statement. “As her son, growing up and hearing her playing these songs on the very same Wurlitzer you hear on this recording, I recognize this choice maintains the purity and essence of Alice’s musical and spiritual vision. In many ways, this new clarity brings these chants to an even higher place.”

Alice Coltrane sang in Sanskrit for Turiya Sings. The new album was mixed by Steve Genewick and mastered by Kevin Reeves. It follows Luaka Bop’s 2017 compilation of Coltrane’s devotional music, The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda.

Read “Inside Alice Coltrane’s Stunning, Spiritual Musical Quest” on the Pitch.

Kirtan: Turiya Sings:

01 Jagadishwar
02 Jai Ramachandra
03 Krishna Krishna
04 Rama Katha
05 Yamuna Tira Vihari
06 Charanam
07 Govinda Hari
08 Hara Siva
09 Pranadhana