Devadip Carlos Santana* & Turiya Alice Coltrane* – Illuminations

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Label:	Columbia – PC 32900
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Santa Maria Pressing
Country:	US
Released:	Sep 1974
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Free Jazz

Tracklist

A1	Guru Sri Chinmoy Aphorism Acoustic Bass – David Holland* Cymbal [Cymbals] – Jack DeJohnette Electric Piano – Tom Coster Flute – Jules Broussard Harp – Turiya Alice Coltrane* Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Wind Chimes – Devadip Carlos Santana* Written-By – Guru Sri Chinmoy*	1:10
A2	Angel Of Air Acoustic Bass – David Holland* Cymbal [Cymbals] – Jack DeJohnette Electric Piano – Tom Coster Flute – Jules Broussard Harp – Turiya Alice Coltrane* Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Wind Chimes – Devadip Carlos Santana* Written-By – Devadip Carlos Santana*, Tom Coster	3:37
A3	Angel Of Water Acoustic Bass – David Holland* Electric Piano – Tom Coster Guitar – Devadip Carlos Santana* Harp – Turiya Alice Coltrane* Soprano Saxophone – Jules Broussard Written-By – Turiya Alice Coltrane*	6:18
A4	Bliss: The Eternal Now Guitar – Devadip Carlos Santana* Piano [Acoustic], Harp – Turiya Alice Coltrane* Written-By – Devadip Carlos Santana*, Tom Coster	5:32
B1	Angel Of Sunlight Acoustic Bass – David Holland* Congas – Armando Peraza Drums – Jack DeJohnette Guitar, Finger Cymbals, Cymbal [Hand Cymbals] – Devadip Carlos Santana* Organ [Hammond], Finger Cymbals, Cymbal [Hand Cymbals] – Tom Coster Organ [Wurlitzer] – Turiya Alice Coltrane* Soprano Saxophone – Jules Broussard Tabla – Phil Ford Tambura [Male Tamboura] – Prabuddha Phil Browne Written-By – Devadip Carlos Santana, Tom Coster Acoustic Bass – David Holland Congas – Armando Peraza Drums – Jack DeJohnette Guitar, Finger Cymbals, Cymbal [Hand Cymbals] – Devadip Carlos Santana* Organ [Hammond], Finger Cymbals, Cymbal [Hand Cymbals] – Tom Coster Organ [Wurlitzer] – Turiya Alice Coltrane* Soprano Saxophone – Jules Broussard Tabla – Phil Ford Tambura [Male Tamboura] – Prabuddha Phil Browne Written-By – Devadip Carlos Santana*, Tom Coster	14:43
B2	Illuminations Guitar – Devadip Carlos Santana* Harp – Turiya Alice Coltrane* Piano [Acoustic] – Tom Coster Written-By – Devadip Carlos Santana*, Tom Coster	4:20

Companies, etc.

Manufactured By – Columbia Records
Manufactured By – CBS Inc.
Copyright © – CBS Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
Mastered At – Customatrix

Credits

Art Direction, Illustration [Cover] – Michael Wood (6)
Bass – James Bond* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2)
Cello – Anne Goodman (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Fred Seykora* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Glenn Grab (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Jackie Lustgarten* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2)
Cover [Album Cover] – Retina Circus
Design [Sleeve] – Cynthia Shyvers
Engineer – George Engfer, Glen Kolotkin
Photography By – Steve Bruce (2)
Photography By [Liner] – Herb Green*
Producer – Devadip Carlos Santana*, Tom Coster
Producer, Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – Turiya Alice Coltrane*
Viola – Alan Harshman* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), David Schwartz (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Marilyn Baker (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Myer Bello (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Myra Kestenbaum (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Rollice Dale (tracks: A1 to A3, B2)
Violin – Charles Veal* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Gordon Marron (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Murray Adler (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Nathan Kaproff (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Paul Shure (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Ron Folsom* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2), Bill Henderson* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2)

Notes

LP housed in photo sleeve with credits.
Export copies have "CBS" stickers covering the Columbia logo on the back cover and the labels.
© 1974 CBS, Inc./℗ 1974 CBS, Inc./Manufactured by Columbia Records/CBS, Inc./51 W. 52 Street, New York, N.Y./® "Columbia," Marcas Reg.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Pressing Plant ID (In runout): S
Price Code (On spine): X698
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): AL 32900
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): BL 32900
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 1): P AL 32900-1B 1S A2 o
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 1): P BL 32900-1A S A4 o
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 2): P AL 32900-1B 1S A3 o
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): P BL 32900-1A 1S A3 o

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Illuminations (LP, Album, Stereo)	CBS, CBS, CBS	CBS 69063, S 69063, 69063	UK	1974
Recently Edited	Illuminations (LP, Album)	CBS, CBS	CBS 69063, (PC 32900)	Europe	1974
Recently Edited	Illuminations (LP, Album, Stereo)	CBS	CBS 69063	Greece	1974
New Submission	Illuminations (8-Track Cartridge, Album, Quadraphonic)	Columbia	CAQ 32900	Canada	1974
New Submission	Illuminations (LP, Album)	CBS/Sony	SOPN 95	Japan	1974

Reviews

DomineM Jul 4, 2021
Free Jazz ??? It's Spiritual jazz!!! Who came up with this idea...
Jules1852 Mar 11, 2020
My vinyl copy of PC 32900 (al32900) has had the name "Columbia" totally obliterated from both the cover and the vinyl. Can somebody explain why this has happened.
progfan97402 Oct 2, 2015
Edited 7 years ago
This is quite a unique album that blew me away. I didn't go expecting an extension of the Santana sound because I realize this was a project outside the scope of the regular Santana releases. By this point, Carlos Santana was deep in Eastern mysticism, being a disciple of guru Sri Chinmoy (John McLaughlin was also a disciple, that's why he collaborated with Mr. Santana the previous year on Love, Devotion and Surrender). Carlos Santana now adopted the Devadip name, and collaborated with someone else inspired by Eastern mysticism, Alice Coltrane (who wasn't a disciple of Chinmoy), widow of John Coltrane. He gets help from some Santana members (including Tom Coster), Billy Cobham, and others. The album starts off with some simple chanting, but what you get after is lot of orchestrated passages with Alice Coltrane giving some nice harp playing (it's to be pointed out, not just by me, that Alice Coltrane was one of the few musicians in jazz to incorporate a harp) and Carlos Santana his trademark guitar playing. Much of this seems more in the Third Stream vein. "Angel of Sunlight" moves away from Third Stream, and into raga-influenced fusion. It is simply unbelievably intense (although it starts off slow with a droning sitar or tamboura, with tabla, before picking up steam), and Billy Cobham plays drums like there's no tomorrow. No wonder Miles Davis hired him to play for him and why he's considered simply one of the greats of fusion drumming. This is just like the most intense moments of Love, Devotion and Surrender, just simply without John McLaughlin's input (since he wasn't on this album, naturally), but like that album, it shows that Carlos Santana can certainly hold his own on guitar. This album has surprisingly little Latin influences, mainly on "Angel of Sunlight" itself, but a lot of the percussion came from tablas, rather than congas and timbales, although the congas do appear as the intensity increases and the sitars (or perhaps tambouras) disappear.

Mainstream Santana fans (who mostly enjoy the band for the hits, be it from the first three albums, or latter-day fans who came to Santana circa 1999 when "Smooth" with Rob Thomas became a huge hit) will probably have a hard time relating to this album. I'm sure even Carlos Santana himself realizes this won't appeal to the average mainstream Santana fan. But for the more adventurous listener, this album is highly recommended!