O músico e produtor Britânico Floating Points (Sam Shepherd), o lendário saxofonista de jazz Pharoah Sanders e a London Symphony Orchestra unem forças em Promises, um album de nove movimentos para os ouvidos, coração e alma. A primeira gravação de Sanders em mais de uma década, 46 minutos incríveis que flutuam e derretem, tão belo como arrebatador. Artwork por Julie Mehretu.

Avaliado em 10/11 Música e 9/11 Som por Michael Fremer (Analog Planet)

• Gravado nos Air Studios
• Corte por Chris Bellman na Bernie Grundman Mastering
• Capa gatefold die cut
• Prensagem na Pallas da Alemanha

Sam (Floating Points): Pharoah...

Pharoah: Huh...?
Sam: Were you asleep? I'm sorry...
Pharoah: No no... I was listening... and dreaming... and listening to music in my head...
Sam: Oh wow... sorry.
Pharoah: Many times, people think I might be asleep... but in fact, I am just listening to music in my head. I'm always listening... to the sounds around me... and playing, in my mind... and sometimes I dream.
Sam: What were you dreaming about?
Pharoah: I'm on a ship. In the ocean. Bears coming around smoking cigars. The bears are singing, 'We have the music. We have what you're looking for.'

Pharoah: How you like that take, Sam?
Sam: It's cool. I think the bit in the middle, where it stops again...I think you can hear...We were both kind of confused. I like it as well because it sounds like two musicians that are trying to guide each other.
Pharoah: I think that's it right there. It came out different. It came out good though.
Sam: You happy?
Pharoah: Yeah, I'm cool with it.
Sam: Okay. Yeah, I think your playing is beautiful.

"The all-star collaboration between a producer, a saxophonist, and a symphony is a celestial event. But it's Pharoah Sanders' playing that holds it all together, a clear late-career masterpiece." - Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, Rated 9.0

"Sanders' playing is soft and lyrical, not so much searching as observing, like he's strolling down a densely wooded path with Shepherd's recurrent arpeggio flickering like sunlight through gaps in trees....There's a gradual ebb and flow through the first four movements, the last of which is enhanced by Sanders' friendly vocal trills. His saxophone then becomes more active and clustered, yet tightly controlled, and early into the sixth movement yields to a mass of strings signifying a looming threat that dissipates before turning violent, seemingly cradled into silence. Up springs the arpeggio and Sanders' saxophone, placid until invigorated by swirling electronics. Sanders emits piquant beams, never quite blasts, and fades out by the end of the seventh movement. Droning organs and violins that whisk and wrench are centered in the two final movements, finishing the suite with a sense of uncertainty. The trip is well worth completing despite Sanders' early exit." - Andy Kellman, AllMusic

"This is a record you can play repeatedly and get lost every time in its magic. I've been playing a test pressing sent to me at the end of December by a friend of Shepherd's and remain mesmerized with every play by the mostly dreamy, meditative music and the pristine sound, including Sanders' sax, which floats serenely between the speakers." - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet, Music 10/11, Sound 9/11

Músicos:

Condutor – Sally Herbert
Orquestração – The London Symphony Orchestra
Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta, Synths e muito mais – Sam Shepherd
Tenor Saxofone, Voz – Pharoah Sanders

Lista de Faixas:

1. Movement 1
2. Movement 2
3. Movement 3
4. Movement 4
5. Movement 5
6. Movement 6
7. Movement 7
8. Movement 8
9. Movement 9

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