Name: Moon Child
Brand: Pharoah Sanders

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MOVLP2949C

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Colour

purple

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl. Individually Numbered.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2021-12-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Little Amber Fish

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

8719262020559

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / purple

TWM38

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black

Extended format: No

180 Gram Vinyl with Obi Strip.

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2022-04-08

752505992181

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

MOVLP2949

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180 Gram Vinyl

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2022-05-13

8719262023796

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Artist

Pharoah Sanders

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Tidal Waves Music

Grammy Award winning release from 1989, this later work sees a move away from the screeching avant gardism of earlier works, revealing Sanders to be equally masterful at thoughtful, pensive improvisation. A less heralded part of Pharoah's cannon, making it a lost treasure deserving rediscovery. 

Here Sanders plays with an all-star line-up consisting of Stafford James (Sun Ra) on bass, William Henderson (Roy Ayers) on piano, and Eddie Moore (Sonny Rollins) on drums. <i>Moon Child</i>, with its attractively spacy vocals, is reminiscent of the days of <i>The Creator Has a Master Plan</i>, and this mood is kept throughout the album and in the choice of cosmic tunes represented on it.

On this album the legendary saxophonist clearly reinvented himself as a more traditional improviser, capable of thoughtful and pensive deliberations. Catchy mystical New Age vocals, astrological references... Pharoah may remain an acquired taste, but few jazzmen can equal his unique formula of mastering the ‘groove’.