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.
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.
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 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.
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
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!
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.
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 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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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!
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 ...
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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
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.
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.
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😊
It always pays to follow Luaka Bop! And you may find yourself... listening to a lot of great music.... and you may ask yourself.... how did David Byrne get us here!
Blending jazz with electronic and orchestral instrumentation has never been so sweet to me. The ambient spaced out instrumental with soft moments of intrincated solos really makes the whole 50 minutes seem the perfect time, and the production is reallya part of the songwriting, constatly moving and shifting. Enjoying it a lot
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.
I just meditated while listening to this (as a person who’s never meditated before) and I told myself before starting I would only stop when one of two things happened : I finished the album, or my cat curled up by my side. Here I am, 46 minutes later, with a cat curled up next to me that I hadn’t even noticed.
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.
I know everyone loves Movement 6 but Movement 7 is honestly some of the most incredible music audio I've ever heard. So many layers of beautiful synth sounds plus Pharaoh's tenor playing is perfect.
In my opinion people shouldnt be focussing on single movements but hear the piece as one. I would think that thats why its in movements, not in tracks with their own separate names and identities. They are all part of the whole and better heard in context.
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 🙌
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.
I just finished listening to this for the first time and want to capture my thoughts. Even after my first listen I'm sure this is going to end up being my favourite album of the year, maybe even some years beyond that. Floating Points latest records already proved his fantastic abilty as a producer and composer. In my opinion, this is his finest work yet. The album consists of 9 Movements. The composition incorporates elements of minimalist classical music, spiritual jazz and electronic music. Throughout, the main theme gets repeatet so often that it becomes almost worth of satire, but I didn't ever want it to stop. Improsiations on a variety of keyboard instruments and Sanders expressive saxophon parts are played creativly on top of this main theme. Even though the piece is repetitive, Floating Points and Sanders add memorable moments like Sanders scatting, a beautiful string arrangement that reaches its climax in the 6th movement, a wild synthesizer passage in the 7th, an organ part and even a genius moment of silence. The quality of the recording is breathtaking all in it self. Just like albums like Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock", Floating Points leaves lots of space between the sounds while still managing to create incredible depth and warmth. I think its a masterpiece and I recommend it to all the lovers of music out there. Especially if you're interested in minimalism, spritual jazz, electronics and production.
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.
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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 :)
floating points put crack in this
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.
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...
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
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.
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!
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.
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."
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 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 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
RIP Pharoah Sanders. This album was his last hurrah, and what a statement he made.
Pharaoh Sanders has passed to the next chapter of being, but what a way to end off his discography. Beautiful, beautiful album.
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 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
1001 emotions 1001 thoughts
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!
I come back to the joy & beauty of Promises. I am born again, again.
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.
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 ❤
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.
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 ♥️🙏🏽♥️
Thank you Floating Points for introducing Pharoah Sanders to me.
Thank you Pharaoh for a collection of music and prayer that will fill the universe forever.
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
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
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!
22:44 immensely beautiful phrase
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.
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!
this the first instrumental record i heard that made me full on cry, crazy how pure something so simple can be so emotional
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 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 :)
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…
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.
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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RIP Pharoah Sanders One of the great voices had left us
seeing so much love for pharoh sanders makes me cry
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.
rest in peace, a great voice has been lost, but will resound forever
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.
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
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 ...
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 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.
Goose bumps from minute 1 to 46:39.
That minute of silence between the end of the 8th movement and the beginning of the 9th Is SO powerful!
I love the first listen of a album i know is going to be influental on my life.
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.
This destroyed me, then put me back together. A lesson in musicality for the ages.
WOW! What a journey. Yet another comment here from someone who was overwhelmed by this. Phew!
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.
One of my TOP favorite albums of this century
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.
listening to this forever i think
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
It's like, you go to an abandoned place full of memories and remember them one by one.
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.
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 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.
You can hear his soul in that saxophone
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.
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
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.
Nice comment
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
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.
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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I listen to this record almost everyday. I call it THE ELIXIR.
K
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.
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.
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😊
It always pays to follow Luaka Bop! And you may find yourself... listening to a lot of great music.... and you may ask yourself.... how did David Byrne get us here!
Blending jazz with electronic and orchestral instrumentation has never been so sweet to me. The ambient spaced out instrumental with soft moments of intrincated solos really makes the whole 50 minutes seem the perfect time, and the production is reallya part of the songwriting, constatly moving and shifting. Enjoying it a lot
If you would like this exact genre combo in a jazz band with drums I highly suggest you check out the band Kinkajous
RIP Pharoah! This is incredible - he truly touches the soul. I hope he'll get resurrected somehow........
RIP Pharoah Sanders! Wonderful musical gifts he shared with the world. This last album is incredible. 🙏
Production quality of this is through the roof
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.
There's magic in this album. Like finding a pearl in a sea of marbles
One of the most stunningly beautiful recordings I've ever heard. Incredible album
I just meditated while listening to this (as a person who’s never meditated before) and I told myself before starting I would only stop when one of two things happened : I finished the album, or my cat curled up by my side. Here I am, 46 minutes later, with a cat curled up next to me that I hadn’t even noticed.
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.
RIP Pharoah.....
I know everyone loves Movement 6 but Movement 7 is honestly some of the most incredible music audio I've ever heard. So many layers of beautiful synth sounds plus Pharaoh's tenor playing is perfect.
In my opinion people shouldnt be focussing on single movements but hear the piece as one. I would think that thats why its in movements, not in tracks with their own separate names and identities. They are all part of the whole and better heard in context.
The synths ruin it
Agreed
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 🙌
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.
Rest In Peace Pharoah Sanders
I just finished listening to this for the first time and want to capture my thoughts. Even after my first listen I'm sure this is going to end up being my favourite album of the year, maybe even some years beyond that.
Floating Points latest records already proved his fantastic abilty as a producer and composer. In my opinion, this is his finest work yet. The album consists of 9 Movements. The composition incorporates elements of minimalist classical music, spiritual jazz and electronic music. Throughout, the main theme gets repeatet so often that it becomes almost worth of satire, but I didn't ever want it to stop. Improsiations on a variety of keyboard instruments and Sanders expressive saxophon parts are played creativly on top of this main theme. Even though the piece is repetitive, Floating Points and Sanders add memorable moments like Sanders scatting, a beautiful string arrangement that reaches its climax in the 6th movement, a wild synthesizer passage in the 7th, an organ part and even a genius moment of silence.
The quality of the recording is breathtaking all in it self.
Just like albums like Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock", Floating Points leaves lots of space between the sounds while still managing to create incredible depth and warmth.
I think its a masterpiece and I recommend it to all the lovers of music out there. Especially if you're interested in minimalism, spritual jazz, electronics and production.
Holy fuck how I love the accuracy of that comparison. Thanks my good man!
Nice words
Nice review bud. & rarely for RUclips, not needlessly verbose.
nice review, I like the comparison with Talk Talk' Laughing Stock
Recommend some spiritual jazz. Great review
RIP Pharaoh! Thanks you for the contributions you made to the world.
This album sounds how nature looks and feels
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.
This was given to me on vinyl for an early christmas present, couldn't have asked for anything better. Instant classic, timeless beautiful sounds.
idk why, but my heart got heavy and i started crying.
Listen again, perhaps it helped release the remains of that day....