2CD + 70-page Booklet.
This remastered, definitive version of PHAROAH was released with Pharoah Sanders’ blessing. Frequently bootlegged, this is the first official version since 1977.
Includes two previously unreleased live performances of the masterpiece “Harvest Time,” performed during a European tour in the summer of ’77.
The CD Box set includes never-before-shared photographs, rare ephemera, and features a 70-page booklet with rarely seen photos, interviews with many of the participants, and a conversation with Pharoah himself.
Liner notes by Harmony Holiday, Pierre Crépon, and Marcus J. Moore.
Follows the widely acclaimed PROMISES (Luaka Bop, 2021), a collaboration between composer Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, which was tobecome the late tenor saxophonist’s final album.
Release will be supported by a documentary film and podcast.
For seasoned listeners and new acolytes both, PHAROAH will never sound the same.
Tracklist:
CD1 - Pharoah
1. Harvest Time
2. Love Will Find a Way
3. Memories of Edith Johnson
CD2 - Harvest Time Live 1977
1. Harvest Time Live – Version 1
2. Harvest Time Live – Version 2