Matador Records will release four albums Alice Coltrane recorded at her ashram outside Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s, making the complete tapes available to the public for the first time across all formats. The label announced the release on July 28, 2026, though no street date has been set (The Line of Best Fit).

The four albums — Turiya Sings, Divine Songs, Infinite Chants, and Glorious Chants — were originally pressed onto cassettes and handed out among members of Coltrane's spiritual community. They have never been released to the public in complete form (Pitchfork). Matador's edition will include full mixes and artwork for each album, available on vinyl, CD and digital formats.

Coltrane, who recorded under the name Turiyasangitananda, was already a towering figure in jazz when she turned toward devotional music. She was the widow of saxophonist John Coltrane and a harpist, pianist and organist whose own albums for Impulse! Records in the late 1960s and early 1970s expanded the language of spiritual jazz. The ashram tapes represent a later chapter: music made not for a record-buying public but for a congregation.

The recordings draw on jazz, new age, gospel and electronic music, blending Coltrane's organ and harp with chanted vocals and synthesisers. Their reputation outgrew the cassette circle over the years. Several songs from Divine Songs, Infinite Chants and Glorious Chants appeared on the 2017 compilation The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, which introduced the ashram material to a wider audience. In 2021, Impulse! — the historic jazz label where Coltrane made her classic albums — released an altered version of Turiya Sings that removed the original synthesiser elements. The Matador release will present all four albums in their full, original form.

Michelle Coltrane, Alice Coltrane's daughter, described the music as a reflection of her mother's spiritual journey in a press statement. Her words carry the weight of family stewardship: Alice Coltrane died in 2007, and decisions about her unreleased catalogue now rest with her estate and the labels it partners with.

For listeners who have only encountered the ashram recordings through the 2017 compilation or the 2021 Turiya Sings reworking, the Matador edition fills in the picture. Full mixes, original artwork and a complete run across the four titles — on every format — is something the cassettes, circulating hand to hand among ashram members, never offered beyond those walls.

A release date has not yet been announced.