Cosmic Music - The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane Ryan Thompson as the only female member

as the only female member of the first Soviet government

Ever since the accidental discovery of whale song in 1967

she is their conscience

Her work was exhibited at Contretype in Brussels

Katrin Wohlwendt/Alternative Bank Schweiz

Cosmic Music - The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane Ryan Thompson as the only female memberAlice Coltrane is one of the most forward looking yet misunderstood artists of the last fifty years. For most of her life and even in the decades since her passing she was seen merely as the widow of the late John Coltrane, one of jazz's 'great men' who has long been worshipped with an almost religious fervour and devotion. Yet ever so slowly, that level of love and appreciation is also being bestowed upon Alice. Her influence can be felt on new