Spiritual Unity
by Albert Ayler Trio

From teague 01/20/2024 18:34 | #301344

I guess it's experimental? I don't know, I think John Coltrane was making even wilder music around the same time.

Wow, this was incredible. My jaw was literally dropping at some of the sounds this man was making with his saxophone. I have been listening to a lot of jazz over the last month, trying to get a better appreciation for the genre, and this was both the most abrasive one I've heard while also being one of my immediate favorites.

From Onater 01/10/2019 18:55 | #229463 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This is post-music

it's called a head

From JulianR 09/22/2017 03:51 | #198496

an interesting idea to start out melodic, devolve into chaos, and then return to the melodic. Luckily, the chaos is the far greater portion, because it is also the best of the two. The little melodic intro and outro seems out of place, forced, and kinda uninspired. The middle two tracks are where he shines though

From arthurbittencourt 01/19/2017 23:09 | #183389

This man is a genius

Mesmerizing.

From splashfoop 08/08/2016 07:14 | #172488

Entiendo que a muchas personas les resulte difícil entrar en este tipo de música. En mi caso, fue gracias a este álbum que quedé fascinado con el jazz por primera vez, a diferencia de muchos otros; yo entré desde lo más alto, fiero y duro del género. Después llegaron a mí los sonidos más suaves y rítmicos del cool jazz y del swing, pero nunca volveré a sentir lo mismo con ningún otro disco que lo que sentí al escuchar por vez primera este Spiritual Unity, o que más adelante sentiría por discos como Machine Gun de Peter Brötzmann, o como ese Meditations de un gran John Coltrane.
Así, esta obra y este género representan en mí lo más cercano al éxtasis y a lo sublime.

From Cojo7 05/02/2016 04:48 | #164974 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Radical album. I supposed that it's my fault and not the album's that I don't like, but a good album, in my opinion, can break down any barriers of the listener. The chaotic bits on here are just too much, I know it's not but it sounds like random playing of instruments. This album does have some conventional parts especially on Ghosts V:1 that I enjoyed quite a bit, but I just can't get into this album at all. I'm not demanding 4/4 Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus songs, I just need a little bit of structure.

Quite a tricky listen, although not as difficult as brotzmann's "machine gun".