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Alice Coltrane

Ptah, The El Daoud (LP)

* Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane family home in Dix Hills in 1970, Alice Coltrane’s fourth album is a transcendent masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode to the Egyptian God, Ptah (the El Daoud meaning “the beloved”). Many moments on the album reach what Coltrane herself defined the term Turiya as: “A state of consciousness — the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life.” Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit..  * Ptah, the El Daoud, recorded and released in 1970, is the third solo album by Alice Coltrane. The album was recorded in the basement of her house in Dix Hills on Long Island, New York. This was Coltrane's first album with horns (aside from one track on A Monastic Trio – 1968 - on which Pharoah Sanders played bass clarinet). Sanders is recorded on the right channel and Joe Henderson on the left channel throughout. Coltrane noted: "Joe Henderson is more on the intellectual side, while Pharoah is more abstract, more transcendental."

All the compositions were written by Alice Coltrane. The title track is named for an Egyptian god, Ptah, "the El Daoud" meaning "the beloved". "Turiya", according to the liner notes, "was defined by Coltrane as "a state of consciousness - the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life", while "Ramakrishna" was a 19th-century Bengali religious figure and also denotes a movement founded by his disciples. On "Blue Nile", Coltrane switches from piano to harp, and Sanders and Henderson from tenor saxophones to alto flutes.

The album's cover design was by Jim Evans.

Details
Cat. number: B0036051-01, AS-9196
Year: 2022
Notes:
Packaged in a gatefold sleeve. Sticker: Manufactured at Third Man Pressing in Detroit, MI 180g audiophile quality vinyl A Verve Records release; Originally released in 1970 on Impulse! Records © 2022 UMG Recordings, Inc., 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 - U.S.A. Distributed by Universal Music Enterprises, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Recorded in the studio at the Coltrane home, Dix Hills, New York, January 26, 1970. Reissue mastering [at] Sterling Sound. Joe Henderson appears through the courtesy of Milestone Records.