Illuminations (Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana album)
1974 studio album by Santana & Coltrane / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Illuminations is a 1974 collaboration between Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana (under their Indian names "Turiya" and "Devadip", respectively). Saxophonist/flautist Jules Broussard, keyboardist Tom Coster, drummer Jack DeJohnette, percussionist Armando Peraza and bassist Dave Holland also contributed to the album.[1]
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Released | September 1974 | |||
Genre | Free jazz | |||
Length | 35:40 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Turiya Alice Coltrane, Devadip Carlos Santana, Tom Coster | |||
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Alice Coltrane performs on harp, piano, and Wurlitzer electric organ and arranged and conducted the string section. Carlos Santana plays his electric guitar in a more minimal style than usual, utilizing feedback, sustain and simple melodic statements to create atmosphere and lend space to the other instruments. The album is all instrumental, with lengthy solos from most of the participants.[2][3][4]
The string section introduction to "Angel of Air" was sampled by the Cinematic Orchestra for use on the track "All That You Give", which appeared on their 2002 album Every Day.[5][6] This is the first of three Santana albums (the others being Oneness and The Swing of Delight) to be released under his Sanskrit name Devadip, given to him by guru Sri Chinmoy.[7]
The usual 2 channel stereo version of the album was also released in 1974 in a 4 channel quadraphonic version.[8] In 2017, Illuminations was reissued by the Dutton Vocalion label in the UK in Super Audio CD format containing both the stereo and quadraphonic mixes.[9][10]
Santana biographer Marc Shapiro stated that the guitarist was "once again the child" during the recording session, plying Coltrane with requests for stories about her late husband.[11] Santana later recalled: "the music really took me farther away from that classic Santana sound than almost any other recording—farther away but closer to where my heart was."[12]