Alice Coltrane
Ptah, The El Daoud (LP)
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condition (record/cover): EX (minimal surface noise in quiet parts) / EX- (minimal wear)
Recorded in January 1970 in the basement studio of the Coltrane house in Dix Hills, Long Island, which explains a great deal about how this record feels. Alice Coltrane put Joe Henderson and Pharoah Sanders in the same room, gave them both alto flutes as well as tenors, and set Ron Carter and Ben Riley to work underneath, and the result moves between two poles: the hammering modal drive of the title track and "Mantra", and the extraordinary stillness of "Turiya And Ramakrishna", a piano trio blues so slow and so patient it stops time. Her harp playing on "Blue Nile" turns the whole session sideways. Devotional music that never once sounds pious.
Original Impulse! pressing, gatefold. Sampled, canonised and reissued endlessly since, and still nothing else sounds quite like it.
Release notes
On the center labels: • The Impulse! and ABC Records logos are in a connected rainbow-colored box without the double ® (registration symbols) used on later pressings. • Text along bottom edge: A Product of ABC Records, Inc. New York, N.Y. 10019 • Made in USA Cover has a sticker with "Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson" Gatefold jacket. © Copyright MCMLXX, ABC/Dunhill Records. Recorded in the studio at the Coltrane home, Dix Hills, New York, January 26, 1970.
| A1 | Ptah, The El Daoud | 13:58 | |
| A2 | Turiya & Ramakrishna | 8:19 | |
| B1 | Blue Nile | 6:58 | |
| B2 | Mantra | 16:33 |
- Ron Carter
- Bass
- The Institute For Better Vision
- Design
- Ben Riley
- Drums
- W.L. Barneke
- Engineer
- Leonard Feather
- Liner Notes
- Chuck Stewart
- Photography By, Bells [Occasional]
- Alice Coltrane
- Piano, Harp
- Ed Michel
- Producer
- Joe Henderson
- Tenor Saxophone, Alto Flute
- Pharoah Sanders
- Tenor Saxophone, Alto Flute, Bells
