Pharoah Sanders & Alice Coltrane

Journey in Satchidananda

Alice Coltrane truly was one of a kind. A master of jazz, no matter in what form you may find it. Her previous album, Ptah, The El Daoud, already displayed the major changes that would feature in all of her subsequent masterpieces. By taking the psychedelic incursions of her husband's contemporary works and blending them with the highly spiritual tendencies surrounding her art and mindset at the time, Alice molded a brand new facet of jazz - one that would be pushed, distorted and reinvented so ... read more

Journey in Satchidananda is the brainchild of Alice Coltrane, spouse of the late John Coltrane, and sax extraordinaire Pharaoh Sanders in what is one of the most surreal and dreamlike Avant-Garde Jazz records of all time.

I love how cerebral and hypnotizing the entire record is. Tracks such as “Shiva-Loka” and the title track feel like a journey to a foreign land that is filled with wild and unusual territory that is beyond human comprehension.

The performances on this record are ... read more

What a religious experience!

Alice Coltrane managed to make something truly special in Journey in Satchidananda. As I've fallen deeper and deeper in love with jazz music and jazz albums, I've begun to notice a bit of a common thing that links some of my favorite jazz releases from everything else, and it generally seems to be some sort of personal connection with me. Bitches Brew, likely my favorite jazz record at the moment, stands out to me so much because that was an album that felt like it transported me to a whole ... read more