Now there's an album whose listening experience was heightened by the artwork. I really like the psychedelic, abstract, dreamy trance vibes the art gives, and it really made me experience the album that way. As the album suggests this is a quartet version of what would later become Meditations, and as such it is one (the?) final recording with the classic quartet, Sun Ship having been recorded a week earlier. It is quite otherwordly jazz, not too abrasive, just delirious enough to feel acid-inspired and acid-complementary, sometimes playful, sometimes compassionate, sometimes more involved like on 4, and sometimes dreamier like on the lovely conclusion track 5 before the brass comes in with almost a scary feel to it. Jazz to be experienced, and although it's not my highest rating ever for a Coltrane it is certainly one I'd jam again. 4.1
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