Alice Coltrane: Ptah, The El Daoud (Verve By Request Series) LP ETJS-1.10 Recorded in 1968 and intended

Recorded in 1968 and intended as a tribute to her late husband

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Alice Coltrane: Ptah, The El Daoud (Verve By Request Series) LP ETJS-1.10 Recorded in 1968 and intendedImpulse!, 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