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Baker's Dozen

Multiple Furgasms: Daniel O'Sullivan's Favourite Albums
Luke Turner , August 14th, 2014 12:19

With Grumbling Fur's new album Preternaturals out this week as the Quietus Phonographic Corporation's second release, Daniel O'Sullivan, one half of the magickal duo and prolific multi-instrumentalist, sits down to pen us his Baker's Dozen

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Alice Coltrane - Divine Songs
Journey In Satchidananda was my way into Alice Coltrane's world but her recordings from the Vedantic Center made a big impact on me when I needed it most. After a few deep, dark years I came up for air and the gospel according to Swami Turiyasangitananda was waiting. It's incredibly healing music, her voice is so pure and unaffected, I don't think I've heard Alice sing on anything from the Impulse! era. I was listening to this a lot while reading Yogananda's autobiography. Incidentally, John and Alice were Yogananda devotees. Lee Perry said God lives in the reverb, but here infinity dwells in glissando. The synths sweep and swoop like an enormous bird plucking souls from the earth and delivering them to Akasha. Beautiful, cosmic music.