Blue Nile
A harp piece from Ptah, the El Daoud that she recorded again in 2004 and that Flying Lotus sampled.
Alice Coltrane, from Ptah, the El Daoud (1970)
- Written by
- Alice Coltrane
- Released
- 1970
- Length
- 7:02
- Album
- Ptah, the El Daoud
The third track of Ptah, the El Daoud, on which Coltrane plays harp while Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson both switch to alto flute. She recorded it again for Translinear Light in 2004, in a version of 8:05 with her son Ravi on tenor saxophone, James Genus on bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums.
Her grand-nephew Flying Lotus sampled the harp from the original in Drips//Auntie's Harp, on his 2010 album Cosmogramma. In 2015 Matthew Halsall and The Gondwana Orchestra paired Journey in Satchidananda with their own version of it on a split 12-inch single.
Covers and versions
- Matthew Halsall and The Gondwana Orchestra (2015) Split 12-inch single with Journey in Satchidananda.
More songs by Alice Coltrane
Turiya and Ramakrishna, Journey in Satchidananda
Sources
- Ptah, the El Daoud, Wikipedia
- Translinear Light, Wikipedia
- Alice Coltrane, Wikipedia
- Journey in Satchidananda / Blue Nile, Oye Records