{"title":"Exotic Material","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"alice-coltrane-eternitys-pillar-blu-ray-disc-box-set","title":"Alice Coltrane - Eternity's Pillar Blu-ray Disc Box Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25th, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"219\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"219\"\u003eLimited edition 2x Blu-ray Disc box set (region free, 514 minutes). Comes with 80-page booklet of interviews and essays. Sourced from the archival broadcast masters and exclusively licensed from the Coltrane estate.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"952\"\u003eLos Angeles, 1985. Every Sunday after midnight, on KTTV Channel 11, an independent commercial television station, something appeared that had no business being on commercial television: Alice Coltrane, appearing as Turiya, broadcasting devotional wisdom, meditation and music straight into the Californian night. The program was called \u003cem data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"576\"\u003eEternity's Pillar\u003c\/em\u003e. It ran until 1988, then vanished, thought lost for decades, until seventeen episodes surfaced from broadcast master tapes held by the Coltrane archive. Criterion Channel began streaming four of them last year, as part of a year-long celebration of Alice's legacy. Here, for the first time, are all seventeen – nearly nine hours, 514 minutes – presented the way they deserve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"1752\"\u003eIn 1985 she received a call to create a devotional music programme, an echo of the celestial instruction that once set Sun Ra on his own mission, and she answered it the practical way, researching how television was made, finding a local studio, enlisting a skilled cinematographer, and putting \u003cem data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1268\"\u003eEternity's Pillar\u003c\/em\u003e on the air herself. Each episode runs just under half an hour: Turiya opening at the piano with the hymn \"Let Us Praise God Together,\" her followers chanting the Lord's Prayer in English, Spanish, German and Hebrew, Bharatanatyam dancers in traditional regalia, organ and synthesizer guiding the singing, ocean waves and floating crystals in pure mid-80s color. It resembles the televangelist programmes of the era only on the surface. This is something far deeper, and far stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1754\" data-end=\"2180\"\u003eAlso included is a genuine piece of history: \u003cem data-start=\"1799\" data-end=\"1850\"\u003eBlack Journal #26: Alice Coltrane, A Love Supreme\u003c\/em\u003e, a 1970 documentary segment shot on 16mm film at the Coltrane family home in Dix Hills, NY, where she recorded most of her Impulse! albums, with an interview with Alice at home and footage from a Glen Cove performance alongside Pharoah Sanders, Reggie Workman, Bill Wood and Rashied Ali. Including new optional English subtitles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2182\" data-end=\"2223\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eTelevision will never be this holy again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Exotic Material","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53361832198441,"sku":"EM001BD","price":49.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1427\/6532\/files\/alice-coltrane-eternitys-pillar-blu-ray-disc-box-set_68eb5367-8314-4ea8-906f-3deff18ecba5.jpg?v=1784845913"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.strandedrecords.com\/collections\/exotic-material.oembed","provider":"Stranded Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}