Harvest Time
Pharoah Sanders 1977 album released on the obscure label, India Navigation is by far his rarest and perhaps most beautiful album. "Harvest Time" fills up the first side of the record and contains some of Sanders most lyrical and forward tenor sax playing. Bathing in the atmosphere of lush chords from Tisziji Munoz's echoing electric guitar, Pharoah arises from the waters and glides on top of Munoz's motifs, caressing the majestic soundspace with lovely interpentrating soliloquies that bounce back and forth with bassist Steve Neil (sounding like Dave Holland) to then travel off into the cosmos to make love with some funky godhead residing inbetween Sirius and Torgious.
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Tisziji Munoz = eel. There's a recording on his Myspace of him tearing a new orifice in a Pharoah-type improv on Pachelbel's Canon in D.
Hey there, I'm desperately trying to find a copy of Harvest Time... Any idea where I may be able to find one?? Price doesn't matter!
Not off the top of my head. I would think eBay or Gemm.com would be your two best options. It's a beautiful song album.
I scored a copy of this for $7 about 15 years ago from a price list someone sent me out of the blue. Never got another list from them and didn't recognize the seller's name. The cover has a little water wrinkle, but the record is beautiful and plays beautifully. I had Pharoah sign the copy when I saw him live in 2002 or 2003. It's a prized possession no doubt. It's probably his rarest, but his Strata-East album is a tough score too, as is Journey to the One on Theresa. He is an amazing artist!
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