Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios). Recorded at the Coltrane Studio Dix Hills New York on November 8 1970 and live at the Village Gate New York New York on July 4 1970. Originally released on Impulse (9203). Includes liner notes by Alice Coltrane. The death of John Coltrane left not only a musical but a spiritual void among his many followers and admirers. By aligning himself with the searchers among the new generation John Coltrane legitimized their quest and set a daunting standard of excellence for those who experiment outside the mainstream of modern jazz. Among those searchers was young Alice McLeod of Detroit a virtuoso on the vibraphone piano organ and harp. John Coltrane had always expressed a fondness for the harp and while young McLeod never did bring that instrument into the context of Trane s working groups she did bring her rolling ecstatic style of piano to bear in the saxophonist s last quartets and quintets as Mrs. Alice Coltrane. JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA recorded in the fall of 1970 is a serene composed meditation on the lessons of the 1960 s a mystical work of enduring sweetness and spiritual longing. The concluding cut Isis And Osiris (recorded earlier that summer at the Village Gate) is a global village of texture and song animated by Pharaoh Sanders gently wafting soprano and Rashied Ali s quicksilver brushwork as Vishnu Wood s feathery oud Charlie Haden s woody bass and Coltrane s sweeping harp combine to create a dreamy vortex of sound. The title cut and Shiva-Loka -centered around Cecil McBee s sonorous lyric bass vamps and Tulsi s droning tambourine-are gorgeous evocations of modal jazz and Indian ragas again exploiting the contrast between Sanders reedy chants and Coltrane s blissful arpeggios. And then there s Stopover Bombay and Something About John Coltrane which reveal the melodious symmetry of Alice Coltrane s piano playing a singular style deeply imbued in the old time testimonies of the spirituals and the blues.