Name: Ptah, the El Daoud
Brand: Alice Coltrane

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

imp12012

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2013-06-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

011105120128

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

ACL0075

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black

Cut at 45RPM

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2022-02-25

F Minor

0889397107758

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Alice Coltrane

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Impulse!

<i>Ptah, the El Daoud</i>, recorded and released in 1970, is the third solo album by Alice Coltrane. The album was recorded in the basement of her house in Dix Hills on Long Island, New York. This was Coltrane's first album with horns (aside from one track on A Monastic Trio – 1968 - on which Pharoah Sanders played bass clarinet). Sanders is recorded on the right channel and Joe Henderson on the left channel throughout. Coltrane noted: "Joe Henderson is more on the intellectual side, while Pharoah is more abstract, more transcendental." All the compositions were written by Alice Coltrane. The title track is named for an Egyptian god, Ptah, "the El Daoud" meaning "the beloved". "Turiya", according to the liner notes, "was defined by Coltrane as "a state of consciousness - the high state of Nirvana, the goal of human life", while "Ramakrishna" was a 19th-century Bengali religious figure and also denotes a movement founded by his disciples. On "Blue Nile", Coltrane switches from piano to harp, and Sanders and Henderson from tenor saxophones to alto flutes.

Ptah, the El Daoud

Music GB