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Interstellar Space | 
| Artist: John Coltrane
Label: Universal Classics
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 24280
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 54
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 543415
UPC: 731454341523
EAN: 0731454341523
ASIN: B00004TA41
Release Date: June 19, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Mars | | • | Venus | | • | Jupiter | | • | Saturn | | • | Leo | | • | Jupiter Variation |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
At times this album is hard, intense and demands total attention. But if you give it just that you will find Interstellar Space is totally absorbing and beautiful. Recorded just months before his death it shows 'Trane continuing to press the boundaries of music, discovering both moments of quietness and harshness as he does. With only drummer Rashied Ali to accompany him 'Trane creates his own universe, which very few musicians have managed to do quite so completely. With the original four tracks and two extras ("Leo" and "Jupiter Variations") included this is an album of such brilliance that even after a hundred plays the listener still finds new things to discover. It is a masterpiece of moods but one, which will most definitely not be found at garden centres.--Phil Brett
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| Customer Reviews:
Visceral February 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
By the time of the recordings of these pieces in 1967 John Coltrane was travelling farther and father out into the musical hinterland of free jazz. This set of recordings with drummer Rashid Ali is about as far as you can get. The music here is wild and powerful and at times violent as Ali and Coltrane at times seem to battle for the space in the music.
This is improvisation of the first order. Coltrane's playing squawks, honks, runs, and stutters its way around the clattering cachophony of Ali's frenetic drumming. Easy listening it isn't. It does seem to be a statement and it is fascinating to wonder where Coltrane would have gone next with his music beacuase listening to this you sometimes conclude that this was something of a final statement. If John Coltrane really was on some kind of musical journey it does seem, listening to this, that perhaps he had arrived.
Excellent December 25, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ferocious and luminously beautiful free improvised duets from 1967 with Rashied Ali, swinging like crazy and actually rather acessable. Unforced and wide open, the absence of any third parties to clog the gears gives the music total freedom to breathe and swell, saxophonist Coltrane an effortless stream of soul resonanting shapes and transitions and Ali a blizzard of crashing drums. An amazing recording, with the instrument tones seamlessly stinging and billowy and the recording studio reverberating like a church.
inner journey December 14, 2003
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Coltranes last album, to my knowledge. One thing for sure there is a progression in Coltranes music and it comes from his spiritual journey that he willingly shares. When "I" listen and feel this album I am connected to spirituality and feel the love of God, which I guess was Coltranes experience when recording. Not an album that I listen to everyday, it's a good "top up" and brings me back to a kind of inner peace. Musically it's amazing, truth is there is one sax player and a drummer making layers and layers of inspired sound a totally intimate experience where everything is revealed warts and all.
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