Message From Home

by Pharoah Sanders

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 March 1996
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 49:14
  • Community rating: 3.16/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Bill Laswell, this mid-90s effort places the legendary avant-garde saxophonist within deeply textured, polyrhythmic environments. The recording relies on extensive African percussion and subtle electronic treatments to craft a hypnotic, globally influenced spiritual jazz experience.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, aquatic, improvisation, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Our Roots (Began In Africa) (10:23)
  2. Nozipho (9:42)
  3. Tomoki (6:25)
  4. Ocean Song (8:49)
  5. Kumba (7:50)
  6. Country Mile (6:03)

Credits

  • Pharoah Sanders - primary artist, saxophone, written-by, flute, bells, vocals, singing bowls [bowls]
  • Charnett Moffett - acoustic bass
  • Fanta Mangasuba - backing vocals
  • Fatumata Sako - backing vocals
  • Mariama Suso - backing vocals
  • Salie Suso - backing vocals
  • Steve Neil - bass
  • Hamid Drake - drums, tabla, percussion [frame drums], vocals

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