A Love Supreme Electric: A Love Supreme and Meditations, by A Love Supreme Electric : Vinny Golia, John Hanrahan, Henry Kaiser, Wayne Peet, Mike Watt

A Love Supreme Electric: A Love Supreme and Meditations

by A Love Supreme Electric : Vinny Golia, John Hanrahan, Henry Kaiser, Wayne Peet, Mike Watt

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angel_b The reason why I love this album is ineffable. Ο Άγιος Ιωάννης γνωρίζει. Favorite track: A Love Supreme: Acknowledgement.

Lovdahl, Ian unexpected and utterly necessary. worth every penny and hour you spend listening to it.

Hnsjrg Gnsl This album answers the question, what would have happened if John Coltrane could have gone the same way as Mile Davis. Favorite track: A Love Supreme: Resolution.

Wade T Actually my vavorite so far is Psalm. Vinny (sax) played with Richard Grossman who I still have yet to purchase/hear... "1, 2, 3, 4" which Richard Meltzer did liner notes for apparently. Mike Watt on bass here. Favorite track: A Love Supreme: Acknowledgement.

browncoatradio This has been playing nonstop in my car the last week! These guys get both the majesty and reckless abandon of Coltrane's music here and they lean hard into it, layering electric organs and squawking and distorted guitars onto the original arrangements. A Love Supreme is one of my favorite albums ever, and this is going to sit right next to it in my record collection as a worthy tribute. (Also buy it on CD! I got a free Henry Kaiser album as a gift!)

PDD It has been ages since I heard the original albums, but I never realized how well these suites blend together. The electric ensemble provides fresh and vibrant takes on classics. Daring and fully realized. Brilliant. Favorite track: Meditations: Acknowledgement reprise.

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	1.	A Love Supreme: Acknowledgement 13:24
	2.	A Love Supreme: Resolution 07:53
	3.	A Love Supreme: Pursuance 14:47
	4.	A Love Supreme: Psalm 05:27
	5.	Meditations: The Father and The Son and The Holy Ghost 06:58
	6.	Meditations: Compassion 08:37
	7.	Meditations: Joy 08:17
	8.	Meditations: Love 05:18
	9.	Meditations: Consequences 11:50
	10.	Meditations: Serenity 05:50
	11.	Meditations: The Father and The Son and The Holy Ghost reprise 06:34
	12.	Meditations: Acknowledgement reprise 12:40

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Watch two great videos where Henry Kaiser talks about A Love Supreme and Meditations *and* you get to see them both performed live!

youtu.be/cTpNBqBmnLw

youtu.be/UKafal721z0
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Some records tell you what’s what. That’s not a bad thing: there’s a place in music for reportage, for commentary, for what’s going on. But A Love Supreme Electric, the collaborative project between Vinny Golia, John Hanrahan, Henry Kaiser, Wayne Peet, Mike Watt, and John Coltrane’s immortal spirit, starts from a different place.
“What if?” it asks.

In fact, ALSE asks “What if?” over and over again, joyously interrogating the twin templates of Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Meditations from a kaleidoscopic array of angles. All five performers weigh in with their solo perspective, but the magic is that the listener is invited to contribute, too. After hearing this music, you may never hear Coltrane in the same way again.

Kaiser, the project’s de facto theorist, chose to start with “What if A Love Supreme and Meditations are two parts of one single expression of an ecstatic spiritual state?”

“I had known that Coltrane intended his Meditations suite to be a spiritual sequel to his A Love Supreme suite,” Kaiser writes in his liner notes for A Love Supreme Electric, notes that are as provocative as the music itself. “Thus it was natural to suggest that with our A Love Supreme Electric gigs, we often play Meditations as the second set. After having done this more than a few times, I would note that….the two suites really do fit together to actually be one 2-part suite, where all the individual sections inform, deepen, cross-reference, and expand on one another, in both the musical and spiritual domains.

“The 2-CD set that we present to you here,” he continues, “is this current crew’s fiery salvo of our testimony to this.”

The band’s recognition of the essential unity of Coltrane’s two masterpieces is profound, as is the ease with which saxophonist Golia, percussionist Hanrahan, guitarist Kaiser, keyboardist Peet, and bassist Watt answer another big “what if?”: “What if Coltrane had survived cancer—which took him at the untimely age of 40, in 1967—and joined his occasional colleague Miles Davis in pioneering electric jazz?”

There are more of these questions raised in the liner notes. Close the door, unplug the phone, and press “play”. You’ve got an hour, 47 minutes, and 41 seconds to think.

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released November 13, 2020

CREW ON BOARD:

Vinny Golia tenor, soprano, & baritone saxophones
John Hanrahan drums
Henry Kaiser guitar
Wayne Peet Hammond B3 & Yamaha YC-45D Organs
Mike Watt bass

Rakalam Bob Moses special guest percussion at the top of "Meditations"

Recorded at Newzone Studio, Los Angeles on February 10, 2019
Wayne Peet - engineer
Henry Kaiser - production

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