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Saying heartfelt goodbyes to Pharoah Sanders, who finally got his pass to the cosmic beyond September 24. However incompletely, we attempted to capture the man in all of his spiritual, wise, and wildy free glory through the wonderful music that was his life's work here on Earth.

Show Notes

As broadcast October 2, 2022 with plenty of heartfelt joy and mystery for all of our aching hearts.  Tonight, we pay tribute to Pharoah Sanders and his unbelievable six decades as one of the world's most talented and innovative tenor saxophone players by doing the only thing we know how, which is play music.  It's hard to encapsulate a man as futuristic, cosmic, and spiritual as Sanders, who started in music with John Coltrane's band back as a young man in the early 1960's, but we needed more than the alotted time of two hours to even come close to doing so.  Thus, we played some of Pharoah Sanders' most enduring work for the full two hours of regular programming, and added an extra hour to let his final goodbye play out uninterrupted, which was our 2021 album of the year in Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders and The London Symphony Orchestra on the Promises LP.  In parts 3 and 4, we eschewed any type of interference with the music here on the streaming form of the show and just did simple intros at the start so that the music could speak for itself, and of course, Promises is totally without intro, interjection, or any noise aside from its own. 

Rest In Power, Pharoah Sanders.  Have fun playing in the cosmos where you truly belong.
#feelthegravity
Tracklist (st:rt)
Part I (00:00)
Pharoah Sanders - Love Is Everywhere
Pharoah Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom
Pharoah Sanders - Astral Traveling
Pharoah Sanders - Wisdom Through Music
Pharoah Sanders - Love Is Here (Live In Paris, 1975)

Part II (38:04)
Pharoah Sanders - Greeting to Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner)
Alice Coltrane feat Pharoah Sanders - Journey in Satchidananda
Pharoah Sanders - Selflessness
Pharoah Sanders - Elevation

Part III (77:12)
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity

Part IV (1:53:03)
Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has A Master Plan

Part V (2:27:30)
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 1
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 2
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 3
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 4
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 5
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 6 
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 7
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 8
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 9

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"The Drop with Danno" on GFN 광주영어방송 98.7FM in Gwangju & 93.7FM in Yeosu, Korea. An eclectic radio curation of all things musical spanning the spectrum every week. Broadcasting 8-10pm KST nightly.