FLOATING POINTS / PHAROAH SANDERS and the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Promises LP cold wave always the same

always the same

the band underwent yet another lineup shift in late 1979

laying bare the beauty of stillness

Its music sounding like the aftermath of an enormous futuristic electrical malfunction still lingering over a vast cityscape

acoustic drums and piano were utilized by the wildly talented progressive rock trio to form a sonic template unlike anything offered before it

FLOATING POINTS / PHAROAH SANDERS and the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Promises LP cold wave always the sameNot that modern music necessarily needs its soul back, but just in case it did, then here's one of its greatest advocates. Leaning in the best possible way towards records like 'In a Silent Way' and hints of Bacharach in its harmonies, 'Promises' is not simply a collaboration co operation seems a more fitting term, Sanders' scales dazzlingly beautiful, Floating Points putting the "C" in celestial, and the London Symphony Orchestra a magic wand teasing