Have you seen the bumper sticker? It reads: Keep Honking! I'm listening to Alice Coltrane's meteoric sensation 'Universal Consciousness'. I guess it's been around for a few years, but I feel like my first sighting of it was only a few weeks ago. I did a double take.
If you are in the driver's seat and listening to this album, I hope you're not moving because this album might send you to the astral plane; you could become detached from communal reality and drift off into a zone of all possible outcomes. The title track itself can make traffic lights flash into colors beyond green red and yellow. Or it's always yellow. You never know. Be careful.
Alice Coltrane was a devoted Hindu. She was very highly spiritual and became even more dedicated as the 70s progressed. Universal Consciousness should really be experienced as a whole, but if I had to choose one track to focus on it's Hare Krishna. This is an eight minute drone-based exploration of spiritual awareness. Very trippy blissful and (generally) relaxing. There are some moments of intense power, but they tend to resolve into a cosmic 'sunset melting into the horizon' feeling.
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