Mystical Performances


A few other threads have prompted me to start this one...

I'm wanting performances where the artist seems to transcend him/herself and tap into something/someone greater than themselves to create an almost mystical experience...almost channeling something else or someone else with Music flowing out of them almost without their ability to resist it. I"m talking about more than just virtuosity here...but soul. Usually it's somewhat spontaneous...so perhaps live performances more likely...but also a few studio recordings. Few artists that I know have done this.... I would say probably Coltrane on "A love supreme" and maybe Miles Davis. Some would say Hendrix did it on occaision. As for women...help me here.. Who are some others? What are the albums? Irrespective of genre.
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Showing 3 responses by timrhu

Jeff Buckley - Grace, from album of same title. Also Hallelujah from same album.
Kula Shaker - Temple Of Everlasting Light and Govinda.
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy.
Jax2, maybe "mystical" would be a stretch but the "John Wayne Gacy" but I have played it for a lot of people and have yet to have some say it did not raise the hair on the back of their neck. The first tome I listened to that album I was going along with attention flowing in and out. When the Gacy cut began I said "whoa, what was that." I was transfixed through the haunting vocal until the end when Stevens lifts his feet from the piano pedals. The ending makes me think of detectives lifting the floorboards of Gacy's house during their investigation.
Jax2, just ordered the Damien Jurado from Amazon. Never heard of him so looking forward to it.
Said it before and I'll say it again. Finding new music through threads like this one is my favorite thing about Audiogon.