Promises

by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

Promises cover art

A critically acclaimed masterpiece, 'Promises' is a single, 46-minute piece of music composed by the electronic musician Floating Points. The work is built around a simple, seven-note musical phrase that repeats throughout, creating a hypnotic and meditative soundscape. Over this, the legendary spiritual jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders delivers a performance of incredible tenderness and vulnerability, his saxophone cries and whispers floating through the shimmering textures of the electronics and the lush strings of the London Symphony Orchestra. It's a breathtakingly beautiful and genre-defying work.

Genres

  • Post-Minimalism
  • Third Stream

Tracklist

  1. Movement 1
  2. Movement 2
  3. Movement 3
  4. Movement 4
  5. Movement 5
  6. Movement 6
  7. Movement 7
  8. Movement 8
  9. Movement 9