The Sun by Alice Coltrane Song Details

Alice Coltrane's 'The Sun' had a release date set for 1968. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:04, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The song is number 2 out of 9 in A Monastic Trio by Alice Coltrane. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. In terms of popularity, The Sun is currently below average in popularity. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Sun by Alice Coltrane is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 95 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. This song can go great with yoga or pilates. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

E Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-17.915 dB
Acousticness
76%
Danceability
29%
Energy
29%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
23%
Loudness
70%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
30%

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ISRC
USMC16853538
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records