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Alice Coltrane

Ptah, The El Daoud

Label: Impulse!

Format: CD digipack

Genre: Jazz

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Ptah, the El Daoud was the third solo album by Alice Coltrane. This was Coltrane's first album with horns (aside from one track on A Monastic Trio (1968), on which Pharoah Sanders had played bass clarinet). Sanders is recorded on the right channel and Joe Henderson on the left channel throughout. All the compositions were written by Coltrane. The title track is named for the Egyptian god Ptah, "the El Daoud" meaning "the beloved". "Turiya", according to the liner notes, "was defined by Alice as 'a state of consciousness — the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life", while "Ramakrishna" is named after the 19th-century Bengali religious figure; this track omits the horns. The origin of the title of "Blue Nile" is self-explanatory, Coltrane switches from piano to harp, and Sanders and Henderson from tenor saxophones to alto flutes. "Mantra" returns to piano and saxes.

Details
Cat. number: IMP 12012
Year: 1996
Notes:

Recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on January 26, 1970. Digitally remastered at MCA Music Media Studios using 20-Bit Super Mapping. © & ℗ 1996 GRP Records, Inc. Made in the EC. 2 x 3 panel digipak. A similar version of the album has the rights society BIEM/MCPS and price code UN713. This is the BIEM/GEMA version with price code BM720.