Divine Songs (Swamini Turiyasangitananda album)

Divine Songs
Studio album by
Released1987[1]
LabelAvatar Book Institute[2]
ProducerTuriyasangitananda
Swamini Turiyasangitananda chronology
Turiya Sings
(1982)
Divine Songs
(1987)
Infinite Chants
(1990)

Divine Songs is an album by Swamini Turiyasangitananda, formerly known as Alice Coltrane. It is an album composed of devotional songs from the Hindu religion. The songs are accompanied by Turiya's signature playing on the Wurlitzer organ. She plays the songs on the organ, beginning with the traditional Indian mode, but then improvises and stretches it until it turns back on itself musically. Her use of breaks, syncopation, and harmonic invention re-images the songs as something original and nearly unclassifiable.

  1. ^ "Alice Coltrane - Divine Songs". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
  2. ^ Allmusic