Time For Harvest

 

Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah [LB 0090 / LB 5051 BOX  2023 USA 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC]

Today is the first anniversary of Pharoah Sanders death at the age of 81. Rather fittingly, David Byrne's Luaka Bop Records have recently reissued Sander's impossible to find 1977 album Pharoah as a double album gatefold boxset, mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.

This set evolves around the twenty-minute track, Harvest Time and the soulful R&B track Love Will Find A Way. There are also two differing live interpretations of Harvest Time recorded in Belgium & Germany in 1978 which breathe a whole new life into the track. The boxed set also includes a large booklet of interviews, photographs & essays on Sanders, along with a whole bunch of related ephemera.

Best known for his work with John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane & Lonnie Liston Smith, Sanders was also to work with Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell in his later years, culminating in his 2020 album, Promises with electronic musician Floating Points and The London Symphony Orchestra. I will re-post my rip of the Japanese pressing of this release on Digitalia a little later today.

Enjoy.

A1 Harvest Time
B1 Love Will Find A Way
B2 Memories Of Edith Johnson
C1 Harvest Time (Live in Middelheim)
D1 Harvest Time (Live in Willisau)

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  1. Blogmeister24 September 2023 at 10:24

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  2. Bobby24 September 2023 at 13:47

    Superb!

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  3. Richard24 September 2023 at 15:05

    Thank You. May I point out that the version recorded at Middelheim is recorded at the Jazz Middelheim Festival, a (famous) jazz festival in Antwerp, Belgium.

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    1. Blogmeister25 September 2023 at 03:50

      Oh yes. That's an important distinction. Thanks for the correction.

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  4. Alan24 September 2023 at 16:37

    Wow, thank you

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  5. Anonymous24 September 2023 at 17:32

    Thank you

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  6. Anonymous24 September 2023 at 18:20

    Wonderful, thanks a million.

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  7. Stanley25 September 2023 at 02:00

    I was just reading the review in Mojo mag and wondering when it would be available. Thanks so much for an early access hifi listen.

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  8. Anonymous26 September 2023 at 01:57

    Thanks for this one

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  9. singles fan28 September 2023 at 14:08

    i was just about to comment on the corresponding digatlia post saying it'd be amazing to hear a rip of this one too someday...until i popped over here and saw you'd already done it! thanks so much...easily one of my favorite re-releases of the year

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  10. Hypnos16428 September 2023 at 17:32

    Hell of an album. Thank you very much.

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