Promises - Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders: Review
Promises is an all around unexpected collaboration. Floating Points is the project of electronic music producer Sam Shepherd, most well known for his brightly toned 2015 debut album Elaenia . Pharoah Sanders is a legendary experimental jazz saxophonist and John Coletrane collaborator who has been performing music for over 50 years. This duo teamed up with the London Symphony Orchestra for a 46 minute, 9 movement piece that fuses abstract electronica with free jazz forming one of the most Mad-Libs sounding descriptions of 2021 so far. Review By Lav: Going into this record I would say I was more curious than anything else. I like Floating Points music but I have never necessarily been blown away by any one project, and while I fully understand the talent and poise that Pharoah brings as a jazz experimentalist, I'm not as indulgent enough of a jazz head to fully wrap my head around his contributions as an individual. Despite that these names teaming up definitely peaked my interest an...