Pharoah Sanders: Village Of the Pharoahs/Wisdom Through Music

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Calvin Hill (b)
Pharoah Sanders (ts)
Art Webb (f)
Norman Connors (d)
Mtume (perc)
Badal Roy (perc)
Kylo Kylo (tamboura, perc)
Kenneth Nash (perc)
Cecil McBee (b)
James Branch (fl)
Lawrence Killian (perc)
Sedatrius Brown (perc, v)
Stanley Clarke (b)
Jimmy Hopps (d)
Hannibal Marvin Peterson (t)
Joe Bonner (p)

Label:

Impulse!

February/2012

Catalogue Number:

06007 5334702

RecordDate:

1971

The photo of Sanders in lotus position, generously collared psychedelic shirt poking out from under his white robes, says it all. Having abandoned the Ayler-influenced sound of Pharoah's First, released almost a decade previously, by Village Of The Pharoahs the saxophonist had jumped with both feet into the soaring and the spiritual. The album is a slightly mixed bag, with material from the main San Francisco sessions bulked out with tracks recorded in New Jersey and New York. It's also unusual in that Sanders plays tenor on just one track, the rest of the time contributing a combination of soprano, bells, percussion and vocals. Wisdom Through Music proceeds along broadly similar lines, its impassioned spirit best captured in the call and response vocals of the appropriately named ‘Love Is Everywhere’. Overall, this two-for-one may not be not the Tutankhamun of Pharoah's back catalogue, but the it still makes for a welcome early Easter present for the cosmically inclined.

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