Alice Coltrane: Ptah, The El Daoud (Verve By Request Series) LP ETJS-1.10 A4: Midnight Blue

A4: Midnight Blue

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the music on this album represents one of the most influential groups in music history both performing in a musical style it had perfected and reaching in new

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Alice Coltrane: Ptah, The El Daoud (Verve By Request Series) LP ETJS-1.10 A4: Midnight BlueImpulse!, 1970 Theres not a lot of harp playing on this, but its well worth a listen to hear how Coltranes harp style evolved so naturally out of her fluid, searching piano playing. The album is named after the ancient Egyptian God Ptah, creator of the Earth through speech. El Daoud translates as The Beloved and the sound is both bluesy and contemporary In the studio, Coltrane was inspired by the right and left hemispheres of the brain to combine the