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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When I think of mystical, jazz fusion comes to mind first. Artists like Chick Corea, Flora Purim, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report. Saw many of these bands live back in the day, some of the most mystical musical experiences in my lifetime! Some jazz purists hate the stuff, I love it.

I also think of Frank Zappa and obscure psychedelic music from 60's, stuff from artists like Music Emporium, Sagittarious, Trader Horne, Eclection, Gandalf, Kennelmus, Chrysalis and Silver Apples. These are very experimental bands, some very elementary, yet they all evoke a feeling of reverence. It may also be some won't get this music, perhaps you had to have lived in those times to get the feeling. The initial awakenings of the counterculture and mass drug use were a pretty strange time in human existence.