Journey in Satchidananda

Journey in Satchidananda (1971) by Alice Coltrane, with contributions from Pharoah Sanders, is a meditative, modal album that blends avant-garde and free jazz improvisation with Eastern devotional textures. Alice's harp, organ and piano sit atop sustained tanpura drones and percussion, creating a hypnotic backdrop for modal vamps, while Sanders' tenor saxophone weaves lyrical and free-form lines. The record is often cited as an important example of spiritual jazz, notable for its fusion of Western jazz improvisation with Indian-inspired drones and trance-like rhythmic gestures.