Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
This album provides the listener with the deepest look available into Coltrane’s soul. He had volumes he needed to express and the duet platform with drummer Rashied Ali gave him the perfect opportunity. Coltrane cries in the agony of existential pain and beseeches us to find the love to light the way. This is simultaneously the sound of acknowledging the place of a single human being seen as a creature of the universe facing death and his creator while bestowing truth flawless by design by avoiding language. And no man on earth could have improved on Ali’s accompaniment. The percussion is in every way perfect. It’s very hard and certainly beyond my writing abilities to express how great this music is.