Promises
Five years in the making,
Promises is a stunning fusion of classical, jazz and ambient electronica, involving a remarkable set of collaborators, said Ludovic Hunter-Tilney in the FT. Floating Points is the recording name of the acclaimed British composer and producer Sam Shepherd. Pharoah Sanders is the American saxophonist who, with John Coltrane, pioneered “spiritual jazz”. The third component is a 29-strong string section from the London Symphony Orchestra.
Over nine seamless movements lasting 46 minutes in total, they have created an immersive and richly detailed work, said Kitty Empire in The Observer.
Promises combines “highly sophisticated” cosmic psychedelia with jazz saxophone interventions, weird drones and rustles, and electronic birdsong, as “the mood swings from succour to awe and back again many times”. Halfway through, the LSO strings arrive “adding depth and weight”.
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