Promises

 Some music comes as a surprise. 

As the time for ready for it, even if we didn't know it.

In my search for positive things for the future this album is for sure in that  category. 

It combines three music styles and makes it to one and to something new. 

So it may be music for the future. 

Someone has said that the music in the far future will be landscapes of sound. 

(if you listen to then Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir you may understand what he meant.)


But here I speak mainly about the Album "Promises" by Floating points, Pharaoh Sanders and London Symphony Orchestra.

Its a mix of electronic music, jazz and classical music and it works.

The title of the album also looks at the future with light eyes. 

It may not be so dark as it sometimes seems. 

We have some time to stop climate change. And if we can avoid a nuclear war and trouble with AI, we can can look forward to some progress on the Earth.

As we live in Anthropocene we have to be the gardeners of the Earth.  

We have to make safe nature parks for the wild animals and in the sea for the marine animals. 

We may have to change the capitalist system to do it.

It may take a long time, so a lot of trouble will remain. 

But I see some signs of the upcoming of new types of people. 

Pharaoh Sanders is old but was the one who found Sam Shepard (Floating Points), so his soul is still searching. 

Souls like Thorvaldsdottir and Shepard may help us to open up our own souls to a higher level if we listen with open minds. 

Here you can listen to Promises; 









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