Alice Coltrane

• 180 GRAM VIRGIN VYNIL

• PURE ANALOGUE, AUDIOPHILE MASTERING

• PRESSING FROM PALLAS / GERMANY

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Released in 1976, Eternity was Alice Coltrane's first album for Warner Bros. after eight wondrous records on Impulse!

Combining the drones and textures of India, the gospel and R&B of her Detroit youth and the dissonance of modern classical composition, Coltrane's music in the '70s would become increasingly difficult to categorize. Having moved a few years earlier to California (where she founded the Vedantic Center, an Ashram for spiritual studies), Coltrane stretches out on Eternity -- incorporating various musical styles, including a stirring adaptation of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring -- and the results are dazzling, both in sonic scope and emotional range.

PERSONNEL:

• Alice Coltrane (harp, organ, piano, fender rhodes,tambourine)
• Murray Adler, Nathan Kaproff, Gordon Marron, Sid Sharp, Polly Sweeney (violin)
• Rollice Dale, Pamela Goldsmith, Mike Nowack (viola)
• Edward Cansino, Deborah Coomer, Susan Judy, Jean Packer (vocals)
• Anne Goodman, Ray Kelly, Jaqueline Lustgarten (cello)
• George Bohanon, Charles Loper (trombone)
• Oscar Brashear, Paul Hubinon (trumpet)
• Vincent DeRosa, Arthur Maebe, Alan Robinson, Marilyn Robinson (french horn)
• Donald Christlieb, Jack Marsh (bassoon)
• Jo Ann Caldwell (contrabassoon)
• John MacArthur Ellis (oboe)
• Charlie Haden (bass)
• Terry Harrington, Jackie Kelso (clarinet, tenor sax)
• Tommy Johnson (tuba)
• Hubert Laws (flute)
• Louise di Tullo (piccolo)
• Julian Spear (bass clarinet)
• Ernie Watts (english horn)
• Jerome Richardson (alto flute, soprano sax)
• Ben Riley (drums, gong)
• Armando Peraza (congas)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1 Spiritual Eternal
• A2 Wisdom Eye
• A3 Los Caballos

• SIDE B
• B1 Om Supreme
• B2 Morning Worship
• B3 Spring Rounds from Rite of Spring