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Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Translinear Light
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$32.00
Catalog #:	UCCI 1010CD

Japanese version, regular jewel box packaging (please note, this is also out in the US on Impulse!). Japanese version features one exclusive track not found on the US version: "Part 1: Acknowledgement" (as written by John Coltrane, for the first section of Love Supreme). With Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette and Ravi Coltrane. "Translinear Light is Alice Coltrane's first recording in 26 years, since she withdrew from active performing and recording in the late '70s to open an ashram and devote herself primarily to spiritual pursuits. The astonishing fact of Translinear Light is that Alice Coltrane's artistry is as fresh, complete, and compelling as in any of her celebrated works of thirty years ago or more. Her rigorously inventive approach to the music overflows with richly harmonized, exquisitely embellished ideas. Playing acoustic piano on tracks like her own 'Translinear Light' and John Coltrane's 'Crescent' she shows all the dexterous and imaginative powers at her command, from shimmering arpeggios to powerful thrusting chords. She authoritatively exploits all of the instrument's tonal and harmonic possibilities from the rumbling bass to the tinkling top wind chime notes. Though she doesn't play the harp on this recording, she often makes the piano sound like a harp. In her idiosyncratic voicings on the Wurlitzer organ, the profound influence of Indian and Eastern music can be heard, with bent notes and a raga-like approach to improvisation, as on her arrangement of the traditional Hindu hymn 'Sita Ram' which opens the album. For Alice Coltrane, it is clear that all music is devotional music. Translinear Light is a logical extension of the spiritual and musical path that John and Alice Coltrane began together. It is radiant, cosmic, psycho-active music, which, despite its depth and complexity, has a timeless and universal appeal. This is one for the history books."

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	A Monastic Trio
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	UCCI 9104CD

Japanese 24-bit/96kHz remastered CD, in mini-LP packaging (regular CD version is available on Impulse/Verve in the US). The first Alice Coltrane album, originally issued by Impulse! Studio recordings from 1967/68. Alice Coltrane (harp, piano); Pharoah Sanders : (bass clarinet, flute, tenor saxophone); Ben Riley (drums); Rashied Ali (drums); Jimmy Garrison (bass; John Coltrane (voice). "It is called a monastic trio, because John's body has left here. And all the music she has made 'more separated' from John than the initial 'Ohnedaruth' is monastic (Where she has lived separated, herself, from public drain). Monastic and spun solitarily in a string cosmos/universe inhabited by memory, of event and emotional circumstance. But they are all loneliness mentioned, sung about." -- As Salaam Alaikum, Ameer Baraka (LeRoi Jones), from liner notes to A Monastic Trio.

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Journey In Satchidananda
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	UCCI 9107CD

Japanese 24-bit/96kHz remastered CD, in mini-LP packaging (regular CD version is available on Impulse/Verve in the US). Originally issued by Impulse! in 1971. Recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on November 8, 1970. Alice Coltrane (harp, piano); Pharoah Sanders (soprano saxophone, perc); Charlie Haden (bass); Rashied Ali (drums); Cecil McBee (bass); Vishnu Wood (oud); Tulsi (tamboura); Majid Shabazz (bells, tambourine). "Swamiji is the first example I have seen in recent years of Universal Love or God in action. He expresses an impersonal love, which encompasses thousands of people. Anyone listening to this selection should try to envision himself floating on an ocean of Satchidanandaji's love, which is literally carrying countless devotees across the vicissitudes and stormy blasts of life to the other shore. 'Satchidananda' means knowledge, existence, bliss." --Alice Coltrane

Artist:	COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:	Universal Consiousness
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	UCCI 9108CD

Japanese 24-bit/96kHz remastered CD, in mini-LP packaging (regular CD version is available on Impulse/Verve in the US). Originally issued by Impulse! in 1971. Recorded in NY, 1971. Alice Coltrane (harp, organ); Jimmy Garrison (bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums); Clifford Jarvis (drums, percussion); Rashied Ali (drums, wind chimes); Tulsi (tamboura); John Blair, Julius Brand, Leroy Jenkins and Joan Kalisch (violin). "Regardless of one's own musical standpoints or of the particular cosmology of one's beliefs, this is Devotional music of the highest level, as it must be- majestic, serene, sublime, a richly-woven tapestry in sound; music of unsurpassable breadth and beauty to be heard as long as men with souls live."

Artist:	FLIED EGG
Title:	Good Bye
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	UPCY 6352CD

Part of a new Universal Japan 70s rock reissue series, called Naked Line. Legit issues, from masters, midline pricing. The 2nd and last album from Flied Egg, also originally released in 1972 on Japanese Vertigo. It's a theoretical live album, with a miraculously heavier "rockin" sound than Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine. Number of tracks with the word "woman" in the title? A mere one. But don't let that lessen the sensational experience of your your brain cells slowly killing themselves off one by one as this stoner-magnet spins in your player.

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Artist:	HOLLAND & BARRE PHILLIPS, DAVID
Title:	Music From Two Basses
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	UCCU 9017CD

Artist:	CURTIS, MICKEY
Title:	Mimi
Label:	UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	UPCY 6347CD