Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises [Movement 1]

Available now wherever you listen: luakabop.lnk.to/promisesbM
"Promises" is the new album by Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra and artwork by Julie Mehretu.
CREDITS
A continuous piece of music in nine movements for saxophone, strings, keyboards and electronics, composed by Sam Shepherd.
Pharoah Sanders: Tenor Saxophone and Voice.
Sam Shepherd: Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, Oberheim 4 voice & OB-Xa, Solina String Ensemble, Therevox ET-4.3, EMS Synthi, ARP 2600 and Buchla 200e.
The strings of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Recorded at Sargent Recorders, Los Angeles, California. Engineered by Sean Cook.
London Symphony Orchestra; Written and arranged by Sam Shepherd, Conducted by Sally Herbert, Recorded at Air Studios, London. Engineered by Jeremy Murphy. Recorded by John Prestage. Assisted by Ashley Andrew-Jones and Gianluca Massimo. LSO led by Carmine Lauri.
Score preparation by Olli Cunningham and Colin Rae.
Mixed by Sam Shepherd at EMS4, London. Assisted by Tim Pennells. Lacquer cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.
Cover Painting ‘Congress’ by Julie Mehretu. Photo of ‘Congress’ © Julie Mehretu. Photo by Tom Powel Imaging. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Design and layout by Paul Diddy.
Executive Produced by Yale Evelev and Eric Welles-Nyström.
Dedicated to the memory of Tom Relleen.
#FloatingPoints #PharoahSanders #LondonSymphonyOrchestra
#ListenToPromises

[@Zavijava1]

RIP great Pharoah...what a master

[@eumekathomas9925]

Anything that includes Pharaoh Sanders feels like this. Praises to the Most High, the genius meets the future....

[@MishimaToshiro]

Amen

[@Puppyfur44]

RIP to the great Mr. Sanders.

[@Zach_Routhier]

This must have been the last work that Pharoah did. How lucky of Sam Shepard and how fortunate for us. Incredible.

[@davidbradford302]

My cat really likes this song for some reason. I think it's the sax.

[@darktrapmusic6472]

No, thats because Pharoah Sanders praise our Father.

[@intense34]

I hold my breath right before I am about to hear it

[@richardcarlson2798]

Pharaoh’s journey from shrieking pain to blissful realization many of us took back then. You can go through it if you can find those early Impulses.

[@tadrimmey8746]

This is ethereal fantastic music by a true master!

[@javioubina1797]

Brutal, magnífico, hermoso, cósmico, sensible y espiritual Me siento cual animal cegado por los focos de un automóvil.

[@ehlerhog]

My God I am the pickiest man alive as far as my music and THIS is up there. I'm going to officially add this to my desert island collection. Maybe the MOST inspirational album for me in years. It's so in tune/on point as far as invoking a spiritual fufillment in me that I know it's going to send me on a quest to find more music like it. Will I succeed?? Hard to say what could come close to this phenomenal spiritual 4th world wonder.

[@aragustin]

Let me know if uve found more great stuff, por favor. Mr Ssanders has a lot of beautiful albums

[@alecbmc]

From a picky man to a picky man, please share with us your playlist, id love to hear music with such soul.

[@coquijean]

still here 9/2021...((wowww)) I LOVE this, its gently nudging us to feel emotions like: nostalgia witha hint of melancholy, sexy even...100 years may go by but if this is heard it will still be today

[@benaylward7661]

Next level steeze.. My wife bought me this as a surprise and I found it the other night when she was sleeping. Beautiful arrangement and will last the test of time. Bless up! x

[@budthewhite9723]

Your wife bought you this? Holy shit what a marvelous woman, how lucky you must be.

[@critical-thought-4all561]

Definitely a keeper!

[@GristleTV]

Beautiful x

[@shopdummys2441]

solid trax love it 👈

[@gallegalle6761]

So sweet sax of god Forever repeat and repeat like god inside So simple very very simple I love you Forever Im sorry for my attitude Movement 1

[@gallegalle6761]

Aunque lo copies No se sentirá igual Un solo dios

[@lalalepus]

what a wonderful opening indeed

[@anthonypetercoleman3575]

If a sequel to The Fabulous Baker Boys was ever made, this first track might be on the soundtrack.

[@recksroller2220]

There are some ambient songs or albums that I can't listen to because they're too static. Unlike those, this album feels like a genuinely through-composed and thought-out piece.

[@mr_bougx]

😇

[@joekiddyshaw5757]

❤

[@ikozbari]

Does anybody know the chord thats repeating by chance?

[@TheFirstCalled.60AD]

Scotland

[@2brazy4ubitch]

Dude!!!!!!!! I tune out for a couple years and you are playing with fucking pharoah sanders!!!???

[@mekore]

This is his magnum opus imho

[@TheFirstCalled.60AD]

Wales

[@1Banma]

This face will haunt you all your life Don't worry he will be gone soon But

[@1Banma]

That's your face

[@derrickgreen7924]

what

[@LaurenceP1959]

Incomplete/abrupt ending - disappointing.

[@jyrkilahtonen791]

It is abrupt all right. On the full album it continues seamlessly from Movement 1 to Mov 2, I think.

[@jyrkilahtonen791]

Listing my findings. If you buy the album, and listen to it in Bandcamp, it may or may not pause between movements. However, I also downloaded the album, and haven't noticed those pauses in Groove. I guess the movement boundaries are just time stamps in the album. Neither YT nor Bandcamp knows about their nature, and may give you a pause simply because the separate tracks are on separate files, and these need to be fetched from a server. Guessing here?

[@javier93]

@@jyrkilahtonen791 you're correct - on apple music the transition between tracks are seamless. I usually don't even know it's progressed to the next track unless i see the popup haha really keeps the mood going