Divine Songs (Swamini Turiyasangitananda album)

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This article is about the album. For the volume of poetry by Isaac Watts, see Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children.

Divine Songs is an album by Swamini Turiyasangitananda, formerly known as Alice Coltrane. It is an album composed of devotional songs from the Hindu religion. The songs are accompanied by Turiya's signature playing on the Wurlitzer organ. She plays the songs on the organ, beginning with the traditional Indian mode but then improvises and stretches it until it turns back on itself musically. Her use of breaks, syncopation and harmonic invention re-image the songs into something original and nearly unclassifiable.

Track listing

1. Rama Rama
2. Keshava Murahara
3. Er Ra
4. Madhura Manohara Giridhari
5. Deva Deva
6. Chandra Shekara
7. Om Shanti
8. Rama Guru
9. Hari Maravan