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I'm on my fifth listening of this album, just before I submit this review, attempting to find the right flow for the river of words which were not said before. Perhaps words just can't float in the way that the sound streams from "Trane", which is precisely why the fourth part of his best-selling album is a "musical narration" of a devotional poem entitled "Psalm". This was a very spiritual work for Coltrane, as a four-part ode to his love for God (he was posthumously canonized by the African Orthodox Church and indeed became Saint John William Coltrane). There is plenty to peel apart on "A Love Supreme", ranging from avant-garde jazz to free jazz along the modal scale, with a recognizable motif that will lift and embrace you before it lets go. The music channels an emotional roller-coaster of liberation from an addiction to the embodiment of faith, and although I may not be sharing his beliefs, this is indeed a religious experience as the celebration of all that's simply divine in music.