Alice Coltrane’s Ashram Lost in California Wildfires

Alice Coltrane’s Sai Anantam Ashram—a Hindu neighborhood of worship that the late musician inbuilt 1983—has burned down within the California wildfires. The property within the Santa Monica Mountains of Agoura was destroyed within the Woolsey Fire, based on Coltrane’s daughter Sita Michelle Coltrane. “She created a space for spiritual practice that sadly has been consumed by the devastating California fires,” Sita Michelle stated in a statement on Facebook. “Most of all the structures have been burnt to the ground, thankfully there was no loss of life.” The ashram was closed in 2017.

“Sunday services were filled with music, chanting, meditation and my mother’s discourses,” Sita Michelle continued. “The years of service, teachings and dedication that the guru exhibited will be shared with my children and grandchildren. They will remember Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s legacy as it was always so much more than brick and mortar.” See the complete assertion beneath.

In the 1970s, Coltrane devoted herself to Vedanta, one of many six colleges of orthodox Hindu philosophy. Last 12 months, a compilation of music recorded throughout Coltrane’s time because the Sai Anantam Ashram non secular chief referred to as The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda was launched.

Read Pitchfork’s characteristic, “Transfiguration and Transcendence: The Music of Alice Coltrane.”