@@nicknickson3650 i still am not used to track 2 of Thembi 🤣 i love crazy stuff but that one is different I love Morning Prayer, Thembi and Astral Travelling tho!
What an unexpected review. I can't tell you how much this music means to me. My dad has Alzheimer's and recently moved to a memory care facility. We have always bonded through music, so I bought him a record player for his room and some records. This was one of the first records I bought him (he's been a fan of Pharoah since the 70s but hadn't heard this). He listens to it all the time now, it seems to be one of the few things that brings him comfort. I'm so grateful to Pharoah for creating such beautiful music before he left us, and that this music allows me to still connect to my dear dad. Thanks Smags for giving this one a listen. I needed this.
What a beautiful testament to the power and love of music. If I know anything about alzheimers it's that your father could have EASILY never recognized Pharoah in this album, as it is new to him and not a memory from a while ago. But the spirit of Pharaoh persists, all these years later, through stylistic changes etc. And your father still recognized and connected with that familiar essence. How beautiful, for all involved ❤❤❤🙏 ❤❤❤
Although Pharoah passed shortly after this album came out, I was very lucky to to see Floating Points and the LA Philharmonic perform this piece in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl with Shabaka Hutchings (of The Comet Is Coming). One of the best live concert experiences ever. Also for the next Jazz album, I really gotta rep Headhunters by Herbie Hancock. 40 minutes of funky goodness, one of the best fusion albums ever
YES my dude. So glad you have dipped your toes into jazz. Jazz music is true expression of the soul. Here are three classic jazz albums: "Kind of Blue" - Miles Davis "Portrait in Jazz" - Bill Evans "Chet Baker Sings" - Chet Baker There are so many more though. Jazz music was popular in the 1920s and spans decades with many evolutions, many ebbs and flows. It became even wilder after "Bitches Brew."In my opinion the best way to discover new jazz is to check out the discographies of jazz artists you like.
Now you just have to cover all the jazz classic! A love supreme, kind of blue, black saint and the sinner lady, bitches blues, etc Also please do karma by Pharoah sanders its amazing
Bro watching you in the various stages of PRONE position throughout the second half of this album IS jazz, YESSSSS, LFGGGG ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🙏❤️🔥❤️🔥🙏🤬🙏🙏❤️🔥❤️🔥
This record is like going on a train ride through the Alps. Just seeing a different views, across rolling hills, on the side of mountains, and pointing trees. And you just stare as they come and go, with the sounds of the train being your anchor point. RIP Pharoah Sanders. Jazz legend, and pioneer.
For me the "meaning" of this album is an intergenerational conversation through music. You have classical, jazz, and electronic music in one seamless piece. Pharoah Sanders was in his 80s at the very end of his career while Floating Points (who composed the work) is in his mid 30s. The title "Promises" could refer to the what we owe and give eachother through the generations. The promises we make and keep down the line. Sanders was an intensely spiritual and family based man. He spent his last years surrounded by his church and family, using music to honor god and connect with his loved ones.
Definitely an interesting choice for your first jazz listen lol you should peep some Miles Davis, Kind of Blue is a great intro to Miles and Jazz in general. Really chill too. In A Silent Way by him is amazing too though and is more jazz fusion with elements of ambient to it. I think you'd enjoy either of these. Keep up the great work Smags! You a G for this one. Hope you and everyone else has a great day!
Love the Jazz review. Other cool modern jazz albums to check out: Yussef Dayes- Black Classical Music Cecile Mcclorin Salvant- Ghost Song Makaya Mccraven- In These Times Ambrose Akinmusire- Owl Song
This is pretty far from the stuff you usually react to, but The World We Knew by Frank Sinatra has some incredibly potent musical moments i'm not sure how else to describe it, there's no reactions of it yet on RUclips but I need to see the emotions hit another like it did for me😭 good reaction as always on this one
if you need another album that puts you to sleep, Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba. all ill say is that laying in a hammock by a lake or ocean is the ideal way to listen. i think i had the best sleep of my life in a hammock by a lake while listening to this for the first time but then i had to listen again when i woke up because it was so good
This suite is on par with The Four Seasons and A Love Supreme for me. I can't make it five or six minutes in without starting to cry my eyes out. You used the exact word I think of for this album: curing.
This album is always guaranteed to make me sob. Even more so after Sanders passing. He last moments on the saxophone are him daringly declaring his humanity amidst a sea of electronic instrumentation that swallows him in the end. Haunting and beautiful
Love how I recommend albums but then get put onto so much by your uploads Still tho everything Harmony by the lemon twigs. Fav album of last year. Would recommend
if you want more jazz, karma by pharaoh sanders is amazing, and the new kamasi washington album sounds like it’ll be hella good from the two songs released already also don’t forget about blood on the tracks by bob dylan and dopethrone by electric wizard, and maybe filosofem by burzum
Promises is one of my fave albums ever. Karma is up there as well so that’s a must do eventually. If you’d like to hear another album from the year promises came out that I would consider a behemoth of the decade it would be by the time I get to phoenix by injury reserve. Absolutely decade defining
I got this recommended by my local record store and listened to individual movements and didn’t get it. Only when I actually took my time and listened to it front to back I was blown away!
Please please please check out the album Choirs Of The Eye by Kayo Dot! Avant garde doom metal with modern classical and jazz influenced elements, the primary composer studied under Yusef Lateef, another jazz great now passed in a similar school of jazz as Pharaoh Sanders, if you liked this I think you'll like the vibe of that album a lot!
This is one of my favorite albums ever, so happy to see you react to this. I’d love to see you react to Songs About Leaving by Carissa’s Wierd, masterpiece of a slowcore album and another one of my favorites
I don’t know much about him but floating points is awesome from his music I’ve heard. Definitely highly recommend Crush from him. Really cool modular synth/drum programming
You gotta check out some of floating points solo work, "crush" might be the best entrypoint i think. He is one of the best electronic artists doing it right now, and definetly worth a video
Journey to the One and Africa are my favourite Pharaoh Sanders records. I recommend listening to Miles Davis Kind of Blue. Dexter Gordon Go, John Coltrane Blue Trane
If you want to get into japenese jazz i would recomend caseopia (jazz fusion) or scenery (classic jepense jazz). Both albums are incredible in different ways.
Man i fckin love your reactions!!! If you're on the mood for metal, i think you really should react to Electric Wizard's Dopethrone, my fav album oat :D
id say this is just as much a third-stream album as post minimalism, and the black saint and the sinner lady is the best third-stream album ever so give that a go if you want more
Rip Pharoah Sanders. This is one of my favorite records ever i think
Karma by Pharoah is a must listen!
Thembi >>>
@@nicknickson3650 i still am not used to track 2 of Thembi 🤣 i love crazy stuff but that one is different
I love Morning Prayer, Thembi and Astral Travelling tho!
@@stijn8588 check out the albums Mwandishi and Crossings by Herbie Hancock if you haven't heard them yet
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karma is amazing
What an unexpected review. I can't tell you how much this music means to me.
My dad has Alzheimer's and recently moved to a memory care facility. We have always bonded through music, so I bought him a record player for his room and some records. This was one of the first records I bought him (he's been a fan of Pharoah since the 70s but hadn't heard this). He listens to it all the time now, it seems to be one of the few things that brings him comfort. I'm so grateful to Pharoah for creating such beautiful music before he left us, and that this music allows me to still connect to my dear dad.
Thanks Smags for giving this one a listen. I needed this.
What a beautiful testament to the power and love of music. If I know anything about alzheimers it's that your father could have EASILY never recognized Pharoah in this album, as it is new to him and not a memory from a while ago. But the spirit of Pharaoh persists, all these years later, through stylistic changes etc. And your father still recognized and connected with that familiar essence. How beautiful, for all involved ❤❤❤🙏 ❤❤❤
me and my homies transcend at movement 6
you should 100% react to the black saint and the sinner lady by charles mingus, easily one of the best and most experimental jazz albums ever
Second this, this album got me into Jazz.
1:06 fyi Post-Minimalism is not a jazz sub genre, but a modern classical one. So this also doubles as your first Classical music album
minimalism is fun. itd be pretty cool to see him do music for 18 musicians or something.
we just not gonna count lift your skinny fists?
@@hawkins8945 yes
It's a testament to the collaboration on this suite. As an electronic music, classical, and jazz fan it just does it all for me.
Although Pharoah passed shortly after this album came out, I was very lucky to to see Floating Points and the LA Philharmonic perform this piece in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl with Shabaka Hutchings (of The Comet Is Coming). One of the best live concert experiences ever.
Also for the next Jazz album, I really gotta rep Headhunters by Herbie Hancock. 40 minutes of funky goodness, one of the best fusion albums ever
Movement 6 is one of the best things… like,,, ever.
One of the best tracks of this decade.
This whole album is one of the best things ever. One of the most groundbreaking albums of all time.
Still completely in awe of Movement 6. One of the defining works of this decade, R.I.P. Pharaoh Sanders
YES my dude. So glad you have dipped your toes into jazz. Jazz music is true expression of the soul. Here are three classic jazz albums:
"Kind of Blue" - Miles Davis
"Portrait in Jazz" - Bill Evans
"Chet Baker Sings" - Chet Baker
There are so many more though. Jazz music was popular in the 1920s and spans decades with many evolutions, many ebbs and flows. It became even wilder after "Bitches Brew."In my opinion the best way to discover new jazz is to check out the discographies of jazz artists you like.
I support this with full force. Also add Undercurrent by Bill Evans to this.
Miles Davis In a Silent Way is perfect jazz intro for someone from a rock background xx
I love just going down the playbar through the entire video and seeing Smags progressively get more and more relaxed as he listens to the album
Been falling asleep to this album since it came out (in the best way possible)
Great album!!! React to Ichiko Aoba's "Windswept Adan" or "0" though! That's what I'm going to be begging for this season.
ICHIKO!!!!!
I second this, Windswept Adan is the best album of the 2020s
Another YES! from me for Ichiko Aoba
I second this with full force.
1:17 Movement 1
4:01 Movement 2
6:24 Movement 3
7:59 Movement 4
9:10 Movement 5
10:57 Movement 6
15:13 Movement 7
18:30 Movement 8
20:29 Movement 9
boy hurry up dropping all these great reactions 😭😂✌🏽
'Chet Baker Sings' is a great jazz album with lyrics for you. good way to get into it
Now you just have to cover all the jazz classic!
A love supreme, kind of blue, black saint and the sinner lady, bitches blues, etc
Also please do karma by Pharoah sanders its amazing
this album has helped me so much when studying for tests or reading books
Please listen to Alice coltranes journey in satchidananda, it features Pharoah sanders and its my favorite jazz album
Bro watching you in the various stages of PRONE position throughout the second half of this album IS jazz, YESSSSS, LFGGGG ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🙏❤️🔥❤️🔥🙏🤬🙏🙏❤️🔥❤️🔥
movement 6 never fails me to make me cry
Absolutely blissful stuff, was a blessing during lockdown.
This record is like going on a train ride through the Alps. Just seeing a different views, across rolling hills, on the side of mountains, and pointing trees. And you just stare as they come and go, with the sounds of the train being your anchor point. RIP Pharoah Sanders. Jazz legend, and pioneer.
How can you be so consistent with this it’s crazy
Ho said she like anthony fantano
For me the "meaning" of this album is an intergenerational conversation through music. You have classical, jazz, and electronic music in one seamless piece. Pharoah Sanders was in his 80s at the very end of his career while Floating Points (who composed the work) is in his mid 30s. The title "Promises" could refer to the what we owe and give eachother through the generations. The promises we make and keep down the line. Sanders was an intensely spiritual and family based man. He spent his last years surrounded by his church and family, using music to honor god and connect with his loved ones.
The texas-jerusalem crossroads by lift to experience please thank you mwah mwah mwah 💋
classical arc is here and it’s already peak🙏🙏
Great reaction, Would love to see you react to Joanna Newsoms “Ys”
Day 58 of asking Smags to listen to:
Portishead - Third
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
THIRDDDDD YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH
ANYTHING BY KING GIZZARD PLEASE
Found this when I got Covid, got me through it honestly.
Edit: Black Saint and The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus is life altering.
Now that's a life changing album.
this was my album of the year in 2021. epic stuff
Hey Smags! I’m so glad your doing some Jazz now definitely do more in the future. Smags please please please do more WEEN pleaseeeee.
smags please listen to Repeater by Fugazi it would be so cool and funny hahahahahahaha please
You have my support making this happen
This is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard for sure
do Black Saint and The Sinner Lady OR DIE!!!
(just kidding love u mags)
YES!!!!!!!
So hyped for your jazz era, kind of blue next please
Definitely an interesting choice for your first jazz listen lol you should peep some Miles Davis, Kind of Blue is a great intro to Miles and Jazz in general. Really chill too. In A Silent Way by him is amazing too though and is more jazz fusion with elements of ambient to it. I think you'd enjoy either of these. Keep up the great work Smags! You a G for this one. Hope you and everyone else has a great day!
Love the Jazz review. Other cool modern jazz albums to check out:
Yussef Dayes- Black Classical Music
Cecile Mcclorin Salvant- Ghost Song
Makaya Mccraven- In These Times
Ambrose Akinmusire- Owl Song
DO BLUE BY JONI MITCHELL NEXT 🙏🙏
and hejira
This is pretty far from the stuff you usually react to, but The World We Knew by Frank Sinatra has some incredibly potent musical moments i'm not sure how else to describe it, there's no reactions of it yet on RUclips but I need to see the emotions hit another like it did for me😭 good reaction as always on this one
if you need another album that puts you to sleep, Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba. all ill say is that laying in a hammock by a lake or ocean is the ideal way to listen. i think i had the best sleep of my life in a hammock by a lake while listening to this for the first time but then i had to listen again when i woke up because it was so good
Sanders is levitating on this record
Sick album
Dude you gotta react to the Adrianne Lenker (lead singer of big thief) album that came out yesterday!
This suite is on par with The Four Seasons and A Love Supreme for me. I can't make it five or six minutes in without starting to cry my eyes out. You used the exact word I think of for this album: curing.
This album is always guaranteed to make me sob. Even more so after Sanders passing. He last moments on the saxophone are him daringly declaring his humanity amidst a sea of electronic instrumentation that swallows him in the end. Haunting and beautiful
Amazing album. You keep hitting it out of the park with your choices. Nice one.
Love how I recommend albums but then get put onto so much by your uploads
Still tho everything Harmony by the lemon twigs. Fav album of last year. Would recommend
if you want more jazz, karma by pharaoh sanders is amazing, and the new kamasi washington album sounds like it’ll be hella good from the two songs released already
also don’t forget about blood on the tracks by bob dylan and dopethrone by electric wizard, and maybe filosofem by burzum
So glad you did this record def need to check out more of the floating point discography
hell yeah finally! One of my favourite records ever I've been on so many walks listening through the full thing. It recharges my soul.
Just here asking for david bowie low its so revolutionary to synths and posto punk its so good
omg, if you haven't any Jazz yet, please, do Bitches Brew by Miles Davis!! It's definitely in my top 10 favorite records of all time! :D
This is one of my favorite records, definitely jump into some Miles Davis now
Promises is one of my fave albums ever. Karma is up there as well so that’s a must do eventually. If you’d like to hear another album from the year promises came out that I would consider a behemoth of the decade it would be by the time I get to phoenix by injury reserve. Absolutely decade defining
bro done reacted to a jazz goat
I got this recommended by my local record store and listened to individual movements and didn’t get it. Only when I actually took my time and listened to it front to back I was blown away!
……bro, I feel like you’re gonna be a well-known musician. Like I see it.
&😂@making that your ringtone. Luvzit
Thank!!
this album is such an experience
Great that you've started listening to jazz on this channel! Machine Gun by The Peter Brötzmann Octet next.
Great idea
Oh god
Please please please check out the album Choirs Of The Eye by Kayo Dot! Avant garde doom metal with modern classical and jazz influenced elements, the primary composer studied under Yusef Lateef, another jazz great now passed in a similar school of jazz as Pharaoh Sanders, if you liked this I think you'll like the vibe of that album a lot!
manifold……
One of the most incredible albums ever.
This is one of my favorite albums ever, so happy to see you react to this. I’d love to see you react to Songs About Leaving by Carissa’s Wierd, masterpiece of a slowcore album and another one of my favorites
I first heard this album in a hotel bathtub and it changed my life.
I don’t know much about him but floating points is awesome from his music I’ve heard. Definitely highly recommend Crush from him. Really cool modular synth/drum programming
Getting into jazz? Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus please!!
Gotta recommend Superunknown by Soundgarden. It's a force of nature and a big moment in 90s rock
15K BABYYYYYYYYY
Are you my hidden persona why u react to my fav albums every single time
'Black Track' by 'Soil and Pimp Sessions' is an awesome Jazz album. Not one to fall asleep to though. Up tempo.
You gotta check out some of floating points solo work, "crush" might be the best entrypoint i think.
He is one of the best electronic artists doing it right now, and definetly worth a video
Pharoah Sanders is also the one singing
Journey to the One and Africa are my favourite Pharaoh Sanders records.
I recommend listening to Miles Davis Kind of Blue. Dexter Gordon Go, John Coltrane Blue Trane
so glad you reacted to this one
Been waiting for this one for a while🔥🔥🔥
If you want to get into japenese jazz i would recomend caseopia (jazz fusion) or scenery (classic jepense jazz). Both albums are incredible in different ways.
pls check out karma by pharoah sanders if u enjoyed this, short and sweet record thats one of the best jazz records ever
If you want to try another meditative jazz-fusion album try Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
I love your videos, could you listen to salad days by mac demarco, there is literally not a single bad song
You should give sensitive g by eyedress a listen IT WONT DISAPPOINT
yoo man. love your videos!! try listening to "Ghosts Of The Great Highway" by Sun Kil Moon
Man i fckin love your reactions!!! If you're on the mood for metal, i think you really should react to Electric Wizard's Dopethrone, my fav album oat :D
Please react to Coil's The Ape of Naples. It's a really unique album with a really sad backstory.
Smags I just realised, you haven’t done a single beatles album. You need to do it. Also please check out Chet Baker and Bill Evans.
Holy shit I was not expecting this one
I MADE HIM DO THIS I MADE HIM DO THIS
@@desperatelycravingahamsandwich thank you waddledee
please do Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic!! it's just soo good
Smaaaggssss hope you’re well bro. Here again asking if you could react to 40 oz to freedom by Sublime please !
YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO BLACK SAINT AND THE SINNER LADY BY CHARLES MINGUS
I would suggest the album Isla by Portico quartet
Yeah definitely check out karma by him, one of the best albums ever i think
had a spiritual experience to this video
Please do the new four tet album coming off this masterpiece. Floating points and four tet are homies
New blue sun by Andre 3000 is basically jazz.
Village of the Pharoahs is my favorite by Sanders. Give it a listen!
Karma is my fav jazz album
id say this is just as much a third-stream album as post minimalism, and the black saint and the sinner lady is the best third-stream album ever so give that a go if you want more
if you’re new to jazz you GOTTA listen to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus, nothing tops it when it comes to jazz imo 🙏
You should react to a storm in heaven by The Verve. Really good Shoegaze album
KARMA NEXTTTTTT
this was a brain-chemistry-changing record.