Sevens: Alice Coltrane – Transfiguration (Live, 1976)

(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)

It’s been noted that 1976's "Transfiguration" is a culmination, and a sort of completion of the body of work Alice Coltrane had been building since 1967. The title track from the eponymous live album (not released until 1978) was purposely titled to mark the beginning of Coltrane’s spiritual based compositional phase where she strictly composed Hindu . . .

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