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In 1975, Alice Coltrane left the Impulse label and moved to less-jazzy more-rocky Warner Bros, where she made three studio albums in three years – Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana and Transcendence – just remastered and reissued all together as Spiritual Eternal. They mark a key turning point in Coltrane’s journey away from jazz and the music industry – except Alice Coltrane never moved on from anything, she just kept on going and growing
In the concluding part of an interview celebrating the publication of Extinct Boids, Ceri Levy and Ralph Steadman remember Steadman’s father, capture the importance of the natural world, and pay tribute to Zeno - ‘a sheep of certain wisdom’