Woke up to the news that Pharaoh Sanders passed away. This album is living proof of his genius but I encourage listeners to explore his entire jazz catalog, starting with his other collaboration with Alice Coltrane. Pharaoh was my favorite living jazz musician. His music will live on indefinitely. A true pioneer. Rest in power
I second that! Everything I've ever heard this legend compose and participate in has been gold. What a privilege to have been on the same plane of existence as him at the same moment in history.
@@redlady935 No we are 2 years apart but our birthdays are 11 days apart :) I ordered my records for him through Luaka an they took much longer to arrive, so I just told him it was on its way, then 2 days after my birthday I got the vinyl from him through post :)
Here from a mention in comments from Andre 3000's new instrumental release. While familiar with Mr. Sanders' work with the late great Phyllis Hyman, this is the most magically beautiful set of music I have heard in.... I don't know. I'm 56. Cheers to brilliance.
I have listened to this record at home a few times now. But today, it was raining a little bit and I looked out the window… And just listened to the saxophone playing and was staring at this big tree in the living room. The same one that my cat probably looks at every day. And couldn’t help but think about our existence here, there were no words to describe it. That moment that I was in. And I just started feeling everything and cried a little but it was a joyful cry. Like my soul was singing in that moment. That’s what I hear when I hear that saxophone playing
It's an incredibly sophisticated experiment. It's like watching the clouds or the tide rise and fall. They don't stay in the same form, but the recurring theme holds them together.
My favorite thing about Movement 1 that no one talks about, is that if you listen through a pair a REALLY good headphones you can hear the raw element to the composition. Strings being touched, sheet music being moved, adjustments in chairs- Sanders playing while picking up the compression of the saxophone pads and his inhale/exhale. It’s the expression of life behind the music, an elemental piece in the entire thing that gets lost only moments after, only to really be heard in pieces at the end. Movements 6&7 always get me, but the beginning is this is such a beautiful expression. EDIT: I wasn't going to address it, but the "Comfortable Silence" in Movement 8&9 hit me directly in my heart. Even though it's silent you can hear the breathing in the background, bouncing from Left to Right in your headphones (I use the new Sennheiser Momentum 4's. Immaculate.) Even better, you can subtlety hear voices and instruments. Or maybe not, perhaps that just the experience of such a piece. Either way, I am truly thankful to be here with you all and to have experienced such a piece by 2 masters and geniuses of life and composition. I Love You All from the bottom of my heart.
I love that kind of background/ambient stuff - something you don't hear in any modern recordings. Another excellent example is Yusef Lateef's "Live at Pep's". Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in a Philly dinner/jazz club. You can hear the audience sounds, like clinking plates and glasses, talking, etc. I guess it bothers some people, but as you said in your very good post, it gives the whole thing life.
@@UntitledKirk thank you ❤️❤️man. I feel the same way. I’ve had this connection since I was a kid, and I felt that explaining it to people they would look at me like I was just making things up. It wasn’t until 4th grade I had a music teacher take interest in me, ask me to think about trying out for band, and I turned it into a true love. I learned 4 different instruments, fluently and learned how to read/write music. My wife and I have made it mandatory to have both of our children in choir/band. The introspection that music equally requires and evokes introspectively is a beautiful thing. It is the one common language that, no matter where you are in the world, music in all forms can bridge those language gaps, it can start friendships from nothing and equally be an outlet for so many. A true gift, it has saved my life so, so many days and nights.
My old man got diagnosed with terminal stage four. I listen to this album and I swear its almost as if it was written for me, to help me get through this time - aside from this being a masterpiece in its own right - it has etched into my soul. I am a musician - and I couldn't write a piece of music if I spent the next thousand years that tells my father's story better.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope balance in your life is restored as soon as the universe permits it. Tribulations in life are inevitable, but choosing to accept art as the incredible source of healing that it is, and the essential companion throughout our journey, is an enriching choice for our soul. May god bless you and your father, my brother.
Peace and Blessings. What a joy to meet you here. Pharoah Sanders and I met a year or so into Covid. We fell in love. I did not always understand him. But. I never stopped trying to. It is too easy to click forward. This. I did not do. I went back through his collection. I read. I meditated. There were things that are painfilled in me. Together. We heal them. We are in love. And. WE. Love You. Peace and Blessings. Algorithm...Be Damned!
There's a sorrow within me and also within this music. It's bitter-sweet and all too familiar. An old friend, Just don't drown in the sorrow. It is reflective, harmonious, soul crushing, awe inspiring and leaves you destitute but more alive than ever! This screams out to me and makes something deep inside yearn beyond ego or self. This is beyond my words. As beautiful as it is devastating! Truly a soundscape of philosophical, existential and spiritual highs and lows. Beautiful!
RIP Pharoah. You brought other worlds to reality for so many of us. I will never forget listening to Coltrane's Ascension for the first time and hearing your horn leap out of another dimension with a burry, fiery luminosity that made the instrument all but invisible. (And that's saying a lot for the tenor.). Thanks for the unyielding focus on your Creative North Star,: your artistic integrity is a beacon for all Music for all time. You are now with the Eternal, which is but a continuation of your great and beautiful Life. Thanks...bottomless, endless thanks.
At times like these, I listen to this, to calm my soul. I love every one of my fellow humans and I am grateful to god for all the blessings of this life.
I played this album while studying, assuming it was nice background music. But the last parts of movement 4 and 6 were so exciting that leaded me away and I was forced to interrupt the study. Congratulations, this is very good music
This music kept despair out the door through the pandemic and separation from loved ones and friends!!! I have been listening to Pharaohs music since Tauhid in the late 1960s. When I heard The Creator Has a Master Plan I was spellbound! This is one of the unexpected highlights of a master musicians esteemed career. Spiritual Blessing I have listened to countless times. They music has kept me alive and resilient. I have seen him live 4 times: Twice in Minneapolis/St. Paul and twice in sweet home Chicago! Oh PHARAOH! BLACK ELEGANCE/BLACK EXCELLENCE/SWEET TRANSCENDENCE/PRAYERS ON A SAXOPHONE. CREATOR OF THE SUN MOON AND STARS/ OF ALL THAT IS/ HELP ME TO BE./ IN PEACE/WITH YOUR CREATION!
Amen Louis. I heard you do poetry a few years back and the experience was similar to hearing Pharoah. When I first heard recordings of him back in the early 70’s I couldn’t relate, then I had a chance to hear him a few nights in Dayton, Ohio. It was a spiritual awakening for me (I play saxophone). Pharoah has had a profound effect on my life and music ever since.
Instant modern minimalist classic. If there's any justice in this world, this will be performed alongside Tavener, Part and Glass's work in the concert halls of the future.
@@trevorbarre5616 Compositionally speaking it is straight out of late Feldman or any holy minimalist's songbook (with touches of Terry Riley in its electronic and jazz flourishes). Not sure what your idea of minimalist is, but a simple melodic motif repeated for an hour over which various textural and tonal events slowly coalesce is pretty much its definition.
What an incredible experience to have this playing through my headphones. I don't think I've been so at peace for a long time,. feels like the auditory equivalent of ingesting psilocybin, laying in green grass in a national park on a warm, very lightly breezy Sunday afternoon, while staring up at the scattered fluffy clouds.
They ain’t fluffy when I trip, more like a pearl mutter liquid, morphing into and out of some fractal dimension. Damn, I wanna see that dance of symmetry right now…
This album feels like letting your soul go out of your body to experience what's beyond our senses. It feels magical and surreal, like an overwhelmingly beautiful explosion of light and darkness. I swear I haven't smoked
Dealing with very serious heartbreak, this piece is getting me through the darkest of times. This is everything I feel. It soothes me and inspires me. Motivates and relaxes me. Truly a timesless piece of art
I'm going through a pretty similar experience, heartbreak is very hard!! You're not alone in this experience! We'll get through this stronger! Pharaoh Sanders is the perfect sound track for times like these.
I love this album so much. You know, I think my favourite musical pieces are not the ones that make me feel a certain emotion; they're the ones that intensify and bring my emotions to the foreground. I am very thankful this album exists.
I had a spiritual experience to this at 7am while having my coffee and writing. This music opened up a portal for me to see behind the veil. It allowed me to KNOW that love is the force that is life itself. The pain and beauty living side by side. All in harmony. All of this from a piece of music and a cup of coffee. Blessings to us all.
This album is an enlightening gift to humanity 💫. I can go into the depths of the ocean I can fly high into space in time I can laugh I can cry I can heal listening to Floating Masterpiece Sanders Thank you.
Feels like laying on a cloud. Looking down on life and seeing the that the creator has a master plan. Pharoah Is my soul as I'm in his . I hear his prayers in this while simultaneously answering my own prayers
So beautiful and moving. I'm crying but not sure why or about. Just general connectivity. That's the gift. Love all and everywhere. Music is the answer.
Ouf, je viens de découvrir cette masterpiece. Je remercie l'algorithme de m'avoir fait tomber sur ce chef-d'œuvre. Tu ressors avec une sérénité, un calme, un équilibre. Une paix.
I lost my father , sister , grandmother , and grandfather whose i knew better than anyone , but in general i feel like this sound gives me more positive energy , then opposite maybe
It's like God's apology for the suffering of existence while pulling back the veil but a little to show us that the beauty makes it worth enduring, in the end of all things.
Like a Spider weaving her Web, or a child’s teardrops upon sun baked cement, all of us are Satellite Souls signaling to God, holding our hearts up as gifts to one another! that through falling apart through forgiveness and healing we someday might find the divine.
Third time now, ... and every time better. This music has such a positive effect on me, it makes me cry with joy, it makes my heart swell to bursting point with love. It makes me feel sad that i dont have anyone close to listen to it with that might feel the same way and yet elated at the thought that i might find someone too. It fills my head with mindboggling beauty, colours of exquisit thickness...it leaves me whole. Thankyou so much for giving me this expeience.
Sanders presence of the saxophone you would swear it's of the God's... his ability to grab my attention and listen to him attentively... it's leaves me emotionally frustrated and full field at the same time... pure Genius... as he would say he expresses himself on saxophone he doesn't play it😊
Honestly, this brings up memories of places I've never been too, reminds me of times when as a child the world was a mistery to me, it's cozy and nostalgic.It's weird, but at some point, the picture of the world I see around me got more and more bland, it used to be alive, it's hard to describe the feeling, but this album brings me back to it a little bit.
I sadly and happily discovered Sanders through his death. I am deeply saddened and listening to this album it makes me realise how great of a musician he was. This album is one of a kind and deeply emotional for those willing to take the time to listen.
Everybody needs to check out Pharaoh Sander's other works like Thembi and Karma. I'm glad to see so much positive reactions to this music in the comments. It's an incredible album.
His album KARMA is as close to godliness as you can get.I heard that over a really nice sound system in a local record store in 1972 and I WAS enlightened. May he rest in peace 🙏
I LOVE the album Karma, I used to listen to it constantly. "The Creator Has a Master Plan" and "Hum.Allah", such beautiful pieces of music, just divine!
Welcome to the worldwide wireless concentration cramp ! maybe if we'd kiss our corporate cattlerancher state pharmer KINGPIMPS of gangstas pair-o-dice asses hard enough --- they might treat us a little better huh ? (Stockholm syndrome) We best start sharpening our mental shivs yawl. Hold fast (intermittent fasting from the poi-zion food supply) , and stay vigilant (meditation is prayer) --- to achieve Goddesspeed yawl. Time to conscientiously rip the goddamn blindfold MASK veil off Lady Justice --- so she can properly thrash that greedy-sadistic judiciously corrupt fraternity of pig-raping motherfrackers out of the equation entirely. . . We need to change "good mourning." into "good dawning !" REJOICE for the kingdom of heaven is in play ! FREEK-OUT !
I'm dealing with a breakup of a friendship, I always come back to this album when everything goes wrong. Pharoah's sax makes me enjoy life again and smile while I close my eyes listening to this beautiful album. Life is good
Dear Pharoah, thanks for your music. In this earth you have been a visionary with a divine gift, giving shape to your inner soul with the sound of a saxophone. Your music is already eternal, and this wonderful album, this immense sound/spiritual testament is the proof.
What a dream of music, Pharaoah was a real pathfinder, exploring the introspective mistery of human mind and soul, conscious and inconscious, miles ahead from the easy ambient music, away from composition's dogma, floating and navigating by the rumble of human hunger and the calm waters of serenity, the dead calm of sadness. I feel thankful to him to help who listen to take contact with the real himself.
I love how the cover shows hierarchized layers, and how different yet similar they are, and it does reach deeper layers within ourselves. we, the humans, each one so different as it could be, with many different aspects throughout life.
Can never stop myself from crying by the time I arrive at Movement 6... goosebumps throughout, but this movement specifically overwhelms me with emotion. Thank you for creating something timeless.
Yes, me too! Movement 6 gets me every time. When I first heard that particular one I was sat on my doorstep in the sun in Spring, and I saw colours in my mind which music has never done to me before. And it's made me weep too. It's so intense, moves my insides. Incredible emotional music.
Waves of tiramisu crash down upon my head. Layered seas of possibilities, transmute, pure intention, into new physical dimensions. Sweetly singing, the requiem of perception, calmly returning, with times precession ...
My no 1 of 2021. A symphony of sounds that melds jazz and electronic, and a film score. Pharoah sanders knew what was up when the happened to hear floating points in a car one day bless 🙌
I don't know how they do it but it feels like the album does not hit a single unintended note, although Pharoah Sanders improvised on this piece. Fits a lot of moods but has its magical melancholic undertone. Every gap is filled yet a lot feels intendedly left open. It's like they played out the whole music game for years to come. What can I say... these cool cats knew what they were doing. Happy to have a physical copy of this.
Magnificent. I used to see Pharoah Sanders at Slugs when I was 19. I used to be a great jazz fan. But now, 50 years later, I find I can't listen to the greats I once listened to on vinyl days, weeks on end. But Pharoah and this album, well, just WOW.
and I might add that I find the format, the improvisation style just a repetition of something that once happened. It is it seems to me not much more than imitative@@aesoprocksGM
it is imitating itself. it is stuck in a format, firstly. the quintet or quartet, same instruments, same spatial arrangement. then it is stuck in breaking away to individual performances, one after another, giving the players their opportunity to show their improvisational skill. it is charlie parker always already, if you will. one cannot take the screeching sax forever. the soulful reaching in deep of the bass player. I mean I couldn't take seeing the same movie for eternity. they are not doing anything new. @@aesoprocksGM
Listening to this makes me want to get the CD and plop it in the car's player and go for a drive out into the prairie. This music is that open and expansive.
Strangely enough I first heard Movement 1 when it was played on Iggy Pop's show on BBC Radio 6 here in the UK. I'm fairly new to jazz and so it introduced me to Pharoah Sanders as well as Floating Points. I'm so glad that Radio 6 and Iggy Pop introduced me to such a unique and wonderful album.
![Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises [Movement 6]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FQdLWlvgHOg/mqdefault.jpg)
Woke up to the news that Pharaoh Sanders passed away. This album is living proof of his genius but I encourage listeners to explore his entire jazz catalog, starting with his other collaboration with Alice Coltrane. Pharaoh was my favorite living jazz musician. His music will live on indefinitely. A true pioneer. Rest in power
I second that! Everything I've ever heard this legend compose and participate in has been gold. What a privilege to have been on the same plane of existence as him at the same moment in history.
rip🕊
Me to🙏❤🙏
Listen to Pharoah's collaboration with a Maalem Mahmoud Guinia (A Moroccan Gnawa musician) called The trance of Seven colors.
Yes. Listen to everything Pharaoh Sanders made. Starting with this.
My brother and me accidentally bought this record for eachothers birthday. What a beautiful thing
Maybe it wasn’t an accident
@@tomrichardson5433 It surely wasn't, It is the universe doing its thing.
That's great.
Are you twins? I assume it was the same day otherwise one of you might have just been giving the record back
@@redlady935 No we are 2 years apart but our birthdays are 11 days apart :) I ordered my records for him through Luaka an they took much longer to arrive, so I just told him it was on its way, then 2 days after my birthday I got the vinyl from him through post :)
Here from a mention in comments from Andre 3000's new instrumental release. While familiar with Mr. Sanders' work with the late great Phyllis Hyman, this is the most magically beautiful set of music I have heard in.... I don't know. I'm 56. Cheers to brilliance.
This album is like watching a city slowly awake at dusk
Cherish the greats while they’re still with us. Give the man the flowers he deserves. Bless
Boomah, well stated.. Most are in the COSMOS ! Yes Sir.
Amen!
RIP Pharoah Sanders
He's gone 😥
aged poorly
I listened to this while walking through the louvre in Paris. Incredible experience.
Great idea!
Ooo, that would be a great way to listen to it.
In this music you can see the lifetime of the universe, the eternal ever present heartbeat, the death of old worlds and the birth of new worlds.
floating points put crack in this
I have listened to this record at home a few times now. But today, it was raining a little bit and I looked out the window… And just listened to the saxophone playing and was staring at this big tree in the living room. The same one that my cat probably looks at every day. And couldn’t help but think about our existence here, there were no words to describe it. That moment that I was in. And I just started feeling everything and cried a little but it was a joyful cry. Like my soul was singing in that moment.
That’s what I hear when I hear that saxophone playing
Pharaoh Sanders has passed to the next chapter of being, but what a way to end off his discography. Beautiful, beautiful album.
RIP Pharoah Sanders. This album was his last hurrah, and what a statement he made.
It's an incredibly sophisticated experiment.
It's like watching the clouds or the tide rise and fall.
They don't stay in the same form, but the recurring theme holds them together.
@Merv Singh You hit the nail on the head. I remember lying on a hill, as a small boy, watching the clouds float by. This music reminds me of that.
This comment made me cry rn.
Beautiful analogy
Sunbooya, you are a poet
As Wynton would say: "That's Jazz."
Movement 6 is the greatest piece of music ever written.
Shits crazy
Completely overwhelming every time
White kuckle, boneshaking, teeth chattering, skyrocketing, burning ascent and reentry into the atmosphere...
1001 emotions 1001 thoughts
Pharoah Sanders is 81. Proof incredible music can be made at any age.
Yes, it is true.
@@rudolphbennett3988 he passed away unfortunately since this comment. Rest in peace
yeah
even in community bands you see people triple/quadruple your age blowing their horns like age doesn't matter
I come back to the joy & beauty of Promises. I am born again, again.
What a stunningly beautiful final musical collaboration for Pharoah Sanders.
Every time I listen to this album in full, I have to stop what I'm doing when Movement 6 comes around... you just can't deny the incredible intensity
effectivement... je travaille, je découvre cet album en fond sonore et tout à coup je prête l'oreille ! > il s'agit du mouvement 6 !!!!
Movement 6 lifts me into the clouds, and I see the sun, and the glory of the universe we inhabit. I'm always in tears.
I swear, This thing will be looked back at, decades from now.
I'm still looking back on it in 2024
Idk about looked at, but hopefully listened to.
My favorite thing about Movement 1 that no one talks about, is that if you listen through a pair a REALLY good headphones you can hear the raw element to the composition. Strings being touched, sheet music being moved, adjustments in chairs-
Sanders playing while picking up the compression of the saxophone pads and his inhale/exhale. It’s the expression of life behind the music, an elemental piece in the entire thing that gets lost only moments after, only to really be heard in pieces at the end.
Movements 6&7 always get me, but the beginning is this is such a beautiful expression.
EDIT: I wasn't going to address it, but the "Comfortable Silence" in Movement 8&9 hit me directly in my heart. Even though it's silent you can hear the breathing in the background, bouncing from Left to Right in your headphones (I use the new Sennheiser Momentum 4's. Immaculate.) Even better, you can subtlety hear voices and instruments. Or maybe not, perhaps that just the experience of such a piece. Either way, I am truly thankful to be here with you all and to have experienced such a piece by 2 masters and geniuses of life and composition.
I Love You All from the bottom of my heart.
I love that kind of background/ambient stuff - something you don't hear in any modern recordings. Another excellent example is Yusef Lateef's "Live at Pep's". Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in a Philly dinner/jazz club. You can hear the audience sounds, like clinking plates and glasses, talking, etc. I guess it bothers some people, but as you said in your very good post, it gives the whole thing life.
Yes, this is why I like Spain by Chick Corea so much.
Beautiful comment. I love when people express their love for music so deeply.
@@UntitledKirk thank you ❤️❤️man. I feel the same way. I’ve had this connection since I was a kid, and I felt that explaining it to people they would look at me like I was just making things up. It wasn’t until 4th grade I had a music teacher take interest in me, ask me to think about trying out for band, and I turned it into a true love. I learned 4 different instruments, fluently and learned how to read/write music. My wife and I have made it mandatory to have both of our children in choir/band. The introspection that music equally requires and evokes introspectively is a beautiful thing. It is the one common language that, no matter where you are in the world, music in all forms can bridge those language gaps, it can start friendships from nothing and equally be an outlet for so many.
A true gift, it has saved my life so, so many days and nights.
@@peepininmywindow5170 I too hope to share my love for music with my future children. Good on you for introducing it into their lives!
My old man got diagnosed with terminal stage four. I listen to this album and I swear its almost as if it was written for me, to help me get through this time - aside from this being a masterpiece in its own right - it has etched into my soul. I am a musician - and I couldn't write a piece of music if I spent the next thousand years that tells my father's story better.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope balance in your life is restored as soon as the universe permits it.
Tribulations in life are inevitable, but choosing to accept art as the incredible source of healing that it is, and the essential companion throughout our journey, is an enriching choice for our soul.
May god bless you and your father, my brother.
And may I humbly endorse your sentiments Renato.
Beautiful comment.
...love and special prayers for your father, ...🌹❤️...
Maybe worth listening to John Luther Adams in the white silence...just a wee suggestion...I love this too...take good care x
Album of the year. Pharoah is a jedi master with this shit . His sound is pure water 💧 it can crash or flow .
Pure and utter joy ....so many emotions invoked 💕
@@mikiomahoney1 ahem, er, that's 'evoked'.
@@greypilgrim2028 well done u
@@greypilgrim2028 psychic smart ass....know better what michelle feels?
@@martenbeets5732 whats wrong with being informed from a correction. chill.
Thank you Floating Points for introducing Pharoah Sanders to me.
Peace and Blessings. What a joy to meet you here. Pharoah Sanders and I met a year or so into Covid. We fell in love. I did not always understand him. But. I never stopped trying to. It is too easy to click forward. This. I did not do. I went back through his collection. I read. I meditated. There were things that are painfilled in me. Together. We heal them. We are in love. And. WE. Love You. Peace and Blessings. Algorithm...Be Damned!
There's a sorrow within me and also within this music. It's bitter-sweet and all too familiar. An old friend, Just don't drown in the sorrow.
It is reflective, harmonious, soul crushing, awe inspiring and leaves you destitute but more alive than ever!
This screams out to me and makes something deep inside yearn beyond ego or self.
This is beyond my words.
As beautiful as it is devastating!
Truly a soundscape of philosophical, existential and spiritual highs and lows.
Beautiful!
nice words
Thank you Pharaoh for a collection of music and prayer that will fill the universe forever.
RIP Pharoah. You brought other worlds to reality for so many of us. I will never forget listening to Coltrane's Ascension for the first time and hearing your horn leap out of another dimension with a burry, fiery luminosity that made the instrument all but invisible. (And that's saying a lot for the tenor.). Thanks for the unyielding focus on your Creative North Star,: your artistic integrity is a beacon for all Music for all time. You are now with the Eternal, which is but a continuation of your great and beautiful Life. Thanks...bottomless, endless thanks.
Yes, truly.
Beautiful eulogy ❤
Rest in peace, my brother Mr. Sanders. You left us profound music that many will cherish.
Im 66 Pharoah has been part of my life since i was 18. Prince of peace . then i saw him at michaels den in berkeley 1980 s
At times like these, I listen to this, to calm my soul. I love every one of my fellow humans and I am grateful to god for all the blessings of this life.
I played this album while studying, assuming it was nice background music. But the last parts of movement 4 and 6 were so exciting that leaded me away and I was forced to interrupt the study. Congratulations, this is very good music
Same here
lol homework woulda been done by now if i hadn't kept getting distracted!
This music kept despair out the door through the pandemic and separation from loved ones and friends!!! I have been listening to Pharaohs music since Tauhid in the late 1960s. When I heard The Creator Has a Master Plan I was spellbound! This is one of the unexpected highlights of a master musicians esteemed career. Spiritual Blessing I have listened to countless times. They music has kept me alive and resilient. I have seen him live 4 times: Twice in Minneapolis/St. Paul and twice in sweet home Chicago! Oh PHARAOH! BLACK ELEGANCE/BLACK EXCELLENCE/SWEET TRANSCENDENCE/PRAYERS ON A SAXOPHONE. CREATOR OF THE SUN MOON AND STARS/ OF ALL THAT IS/ HELP ME TO BE./ IN PEACE/WITH YOUR CREATION!
Amen Louis. I heard you do poetry a few years back and the experience was similar to hearing Pharoah. When I first heard recordings of him back in the early 70’s I couldn’t relate, then I had a chance to hear him a few nights in Dayton, Ohio. It was a spiritual awakening for me (I play saxophone). Pharoah has had a profound effect on my life and music ever since.
@@DietzelDennisL001 ♥️🙏🏽♥️
seeing so much love for pharoh sanders makes me cry
I didn’t think so soon after the making of this late career masterpiece we would have lost Pharaoh. Thanks for this and inspiring many of us :)
22:44 immensely beautiful phrase
RIP Pharoah Sanders One of the great voices had left us
Just randomly stumbled upon this while waking from a nap on a sunny, spring Sunday. What a gift.
hahaha same, Sunday after sleeping, this hits haaard!!!
Same on sunny, Fall Sunday, yes what a gift!
You can hear his soul in that saxophone
Instant modern minimalist classic.
If there's any justice in this world, this will be performed alongside Tavener, Part and Glass's work in the concert halls of the future.
Any advice on where to start with Tavener?
@@zigzagwanderer I like The Protecting Veil
@@zigzagwanderer Ikon of Eros is pretty amazing.
Hardly minimalist I would have thought.
@@trevorbarre5616 Compositionally speaking it is straight out of late Feldman or any holy minimalist's songbook (with touches of Terry Riley in its electronic and jazz flourishes). Not sure what your idea of minimalist is, but a simple melodic motif repeated for an hour over which various textural and tonal events slowly coalesce is pretty much its definition.
What an incredible experience to have this playing through my headphones. I don't think I've been so at peace for a long time,.
feels like the auditory equivalent of ingesting psilocybin, laying in green grass in a national park on a warm, very lightly breezy Sunday afternoon, while staring up at the scattered fluffy clouds.
Exactly!
L o v. e
They ain’t fluffy when I trip, more like a pearl mutter liquid, morphing into and out of some fractal dimension. Damn, I wanna see that dance of symmetry right now…
This album feels like letting your soul go out of your body to experience what's beyond our senses. It feels magical and surreal, like an overwhelmingly beautiful explosion of light and darkness. I swear I haven't smoked
I listen to this record almost everyday. I call it THE ELIXIR.
WOW! What a journey. Yet another comment here from someone who was overwhelmed by this. Phew!
Dealing with very serious heartbreak, this piece is getting me through the darkest of times. This is everything I feel. It soothes me and inspires me. Motivates and relaxes me. Truly a timesless piece of art
stranger, hope your well
I'm going through a pretty similar experience, heartbreak is very hard!! You're not alone in this experience! We'll get through this stronger! Pharaoh Sanders is the perfect sound track for times like these.
keep your head up kings, know your worth
What happened, did you run out of singles and she went back to the pole?
@@spencexxx Wow, thanks for taking time out of your day to write this, super thoughtful! 🤗
I love this album so much. You know, I think my favourite musical pieces are not the ones that make me feel a certain emotion; they're the ones that intensify and bring my emotions to the foreground. I am very thankful this album exists.
One of my TOP favorite albums of this century
That minute of silence between the end of the 8th movement and the beginning of the 9th Is SO powerful!
I had a spiritual experience to this at 7am while having my coffee and writing. This music opened up a portal for me to see behind the veil. It allowed me to KNOW that love is the force that is life itself. The pain and beauty living side by side. All in harmony. All of this from a piece of music and a cup of coffee. Blessings to us all.
Peace man
Absolutely mystical! Galactic Shamanic Musical Mastery opening portals to Higher Dimensions
Check out Pharoah's
'The Creator Has a Masterplan' . . .
Peace and blessings to you.
rest in peace, a great voice has been lost, but will resound forever
this the first instrumental record i heard that made me full on cry, crazy how pure something so simple can be so emotional
This is beautiful......RIP Pharaoh.
This album is an enlightening gift to humanity 💫. I can go into the depths of the ocean I can fly high into space in time I can laugh I can cry I can heal listening to Floating Masterpiece Sanders Thank you.
Feels like laying on a cloud. Looking down on life and seeing the that the creator has a master plan. Pharoah Is my soul as I'm in his . I hear his prayers in this while simultaneously answering my own prayers
I just discovered this the other day... and I am speechless by how beautiful this entire album is. Oh my god, I am in awe... this is true bliss.
Goose bumps from minute 1 to 46:39.
My spirit says yes to this movement and I have been cleansed of the experiences of a past I leave behind!
So beautiful and moving. I'm crying but not sure why or about. Just general connectivity. That's the gift. Love all and everywhere. Music is the answer.
Ouf, je viens de découvrir cette masterpiece. Je remercie l'algorithme de m'avoir fait tomber sur ce chef-d'œuvre. Tu ressors avec une sérénité, un calme, un équilibre. Une paix.
I love the first listen of a album i know is going to be influental on my life.
I lost my father , sister , grandmother , and grandfather whose i knew better than anyone , but in general i feel like this sound gives me more positive energy , then opposite maybe
May they rest in peace in a better world, stay strong my guy.
This destroyed me, then put me back together. A lesson in musicality for the ages.
It's like God's apology for the suffering of existence while pulling back the veil but a little to show us that the beauty makes it worth enduring, in the end of all things.
Like a Spider weaving her Web, or a child’s teardrops upon sun baked cement, all of us are Satellite Souls signaling to God, holding our hearts up as gifts to one another! that through falling apart through forgiveness and healing we someday might find the divine.
Wonderfully said.
RIP Pharoah! This is incredible - he truly touches the soul. I hope he'll get resurrected somehow........
The performance of this at the hollywood bowl was stupendous, thank you
Third time now, ... and every time better. This music has such a positive effect on me, it makes me cry with joy, it makes my heart swell to bursting point with love. It makes me feel sad that i dont have anyone close to listen to it with that might feel the same way and yet elated at the thought that i might find someone too. It fills my head with mindboggling beauty, colours of exquisit thickness...it leaves me whole. Thankyou so much for giving me this expeience.
Sanders presence of the saxophone you would swear it's of the God's... his ability to grab my attention and listen to him attentively... it's leaves me emotionally frustrated and full field at the same time... pure Genius... as he would say he expresses himself on saxophone he doesn't play it😊
11:28 irigirigirigirigirigigirigirom irigirirom irigirigirigirigiro
when he said that, i felt it
Bro sounds like a Hollow Knight character
Sounds like my stomach after dinner
Vocal solo
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Production quality of this is through the roof
This comes from a deep understanding of both music and philosophy; full respect to east and west both, and at the same time old and news altogether.
Honestly, this brings up memories of places I've never been too, reminds me of times when as a child the world was a mistery to me, it's cozy and nostalgic.It's weird, but at some point, the picture of the world I see around me got more and more bland, it used to be alive, it's hard to describe the feeling, but this album brings me back to it a little bit.
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I sadly and happily discovered Sanders through his death. I am deeply saddened and listening to this album it makes me realise how great of a musician he was. This album is one of a kind and deeply emotional for those willing to take the time to listen.
RIP Pharoah Sanders! Wonderful musical gifts he shared with the world. This last album is incredible. 🙏
It's like, you go to an abandoned place full of memories and remember them one by one.
Everybody needs to check out Pharaoh Sander's other works like Thembi and Karma. I'm glad to see so much positive reactions to this music in the comments. It's an incredible album.
His album KARMA is as close to godliness as you can get.I heard that over a really nice sound system in a local record store in 1972 and I WAS enlightened. May he rest in peace 🙏
I LOVE the album Karma, I used to listen to it constantly. "The Creator Has a Master Plan" and "Hum.Allah", such beautiful pieces of music, just divine!
thanks for the tips
Ill be blasting this so loud when the world is crumbling down.
So every day then?
Welcome to the worldwide wireless concentration cramp !
maybe if we'd kiss our corporate cattlerancher state pharmer KINGPIMPS of gangstas pair-o-dice asses hard enough --- they might treat us a little better huh ? (Stockholm syndrome)
We best start sharpening our mental shivs yawl.
Hold fast (intermittent fasting from the poi-zion food supply) ,
and stay vigilant (meditation is prayer) --- to achieve Goddesspeed yawl. Time to conscientiously rip the goddamn blindfold MASK veil off Lady Justice --- so she can properly thrash that greedy-sadistic judiciously corrupt fraternity of pig-raping motherfrackers out of the equation entirely. . .
We need to change "good mourning." into "good dawning !" REJOICE for the kingdom of heaven is in play ! FREEK-OUT !
this is right up there with boris - flood and tim hecker - konoyo for new favorite end of the world soundtracks
There's magic in this album. Like finding a pearl in a sea of marbles
listening to this forever i think
that's what makes me proud to be a human, to live in this reality and in this universe. Thank you so much.
I'm dealing with a breakup of a friendship, I always come back to this album when everything goes wrong. Pharoah's sax makes me enjoy life again and smile while I close my eyes listening to this beautiful album. Life is good
Dear Pharoah, thanks for your music. In this earth you have been a
visionary with a divine gift, giving shape to your inner soul with the sound of a saxophone. Your music is already eternal, and this wonderful album, this immense sound/spiritual testament is the proof.
What a dream of music, Pharaoah was a real pathfinder, exploring the introspective mistery of human mind and soul, conscious and inconscious, miles ahead from the easy ambient music, away from composition's dogma, floating and navigating by the rumble of human hunger and the calm waters of serenity, the dead calm of sadness. I feel thankful to him to help who listen to take contact with the real himself.
I love how the cover shows hierarchized layers, and how different yet similar they are, and it does reach deeper layers within ourselves. we, the humans, each one so different as it could be, with many different aspects throughout life.
Can never stop myself from crying by the time I arrive at Movement 6... goosebumps throughout, but this movement specifically overwhelms me with emotion. Thank you for creating something timeless.
Yes, me too! Movement 6 gets me every time. When I first heard that particular one I was sat on my doorstep in the sun in Spring, and I saw colours in my mind which music has never done to me before. And it's made me weep too. It's so intense, moves my insides. Incredible emotional music.
Thank you Pharoah Sanders for many decades of inspiring and beautiful music.
Takes me to place of peace
Waves of tiramisu crash down upon my head. Layered seas of possibilities, transmute, pure intention, into new physical dimensions. Sweetly singing, the requiem of perception, calmly returning, with times precession ...
idk why, but my heart got heavy and i started crying.
Listen again, perhaps it helped release the remains of that day....
My no 1 of 2021. A symphony of sounds that melds jazz and electronic, and a film score. Pharoah sanders knew what was up when the happened to hear floating points in a car one day bless 🙌
Listened to this on repeat when I was put in a psych ward, not the best of memories but banging music
Thank you Pharoah Sanders for all of your work. Bless you
Masterpiece. I've been listening to this for days. Non stop, again and again. And i still love it
It's soul-crushingly absent; so fitting for 2021
You should try Playboi Carti if you like this
@@bingbong1758 I didn't know Carti B had a first name
Me too, for weeks.
Me too. Listened this record for like a month straight. Outstanding. Peace
I don't know how they do it but it feels like the album does not hit a single unintended note, although Pharoah Sanders improvised on this piece. Fits a lot of moods but has its magical melancholic undertone. Every gap is filled yet a lot feels intendedly left open. It's like they played out the whole music game for years to come. What can I say... these cool cats knew what they were doing. Happy to have a physical copy of this.
Magnificent. I used to see Pharoah Sanders at Slugs when I was 19. I used to be a great jazz fan. But now, 50 years later, I find I can't listen to the greats I once listened to on vinyl days, weeks on end. But Pharoah and this album, well, just WOW.
Why can't you listen to the greats anymore?
@@aesoprocksGM I'm afraid I no longer am in tune with the music.
and I might add that I find the format, the improvisation style just a repetition of something that once happened. It is it seems to me not much more than imitative@@aesoprocksGM
@@jackgalmitz What is it imitating? I know very little about music but have been reading some of Adorno's writing.
it is imitating itself. it is stuck in a format, firstly. the quintet or quartet, same instruments, same spatial arrangement. then it is stuck in breaking away to individual performances, one after another, giving the players their opportunity to show their improvisational skill. it is charlie parker always already, if you will. one cannot take the screeching sax forever. the soulful reaching in deep of the bass player. I mean I couldn't take seeing the same movie for eternity. they are not doing anything new.
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RIP Pharaoh! Thanks you for the contributions you made to the world.
A MASTERPIECE!!! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!! PHAROAH LIVES FOREVER IN OUR SOULS
Listening to this makes me want to get the CD and plop it in the car's player and go for a drive out into the prairie. This music is that open and expansive.
Yep
I have been just letting it play over & over in my car wherever I go.
Strangely enough I first heard Movement 1 when it was played on Iggy Pop's show on BBC Radio 6 here in the UK. I'm fairly new to jazz and so it introduced me to Pharoah Sanders as well as Floating Points. I'm so glad that Radio 6 and Iggy Pop introduced me to such a unique and wonderful album.
RIP the Great Pharaoh Sanders. you will be missed.
22:31 - 22:42 My favourite part!