Pharoah | fr
"To call this outing "authentic" would be an understatement, given that Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders took only some digital recording equipment and Sanders' saxophone to Morocco to record it...the recording took place in someone's home with a large cast of musicians, many of whom are Ghania's family members. The recording did not suffer at all from the mobile equipment, and The Trance of Seven Colors lives up to its title, giving the listener first-hand access to Gnawa healing ceremonial music. Ghania's Guimbri (an African instrument) unravels masterful, off-kilter, bass-like lines over chanting and various percussion instruments. Pharoah Sanders sounds...
There is more than one artist with this name:
1) Pharoah played the role of the east coast’s tonic to the masses for the over saturated 1980’s L.A. Glam Scene. Pharoah was best known for their outrageous stage antics, half blond and half black hairdo’s and beat-conscious rock ‘n’ roll. Armed with their self-indoctrinated credo “Sex, Glam, Gloom” the band would dominate the tri-state area’s music scene during the 1980’s.
With Pharoah being on everybody’s “A” list for record executive parties, (including guests like Paul Schaeffer, Jeff Beck, Gene Simmons and Joey Ramone), it wouldn’t be long before a company...
Artiste new yorkais issu du binôme Organized konfusion, reconnaissable à son flow haché et instable a, des le début aimé coucher ses lyrics sur des sonorités plutot sombres, haletantes. Un premier album avec son groupe dans le milieu des 90's, en 1999 en solo dans "Internal Affairs", contenant le titre "Simon says". Brand new album actuellement distribué dont le déja remarquable "When the gun draws". .
De son vrai nom Farrell Sanders, Pharoah Sanders (né le 13 octobre 1940 à Little Rock, Arkansas, de parents professeurs de musique) saxophoniste de jazz originaire de l'Arkansas, commence à être connu sur la scène de jazz d'Oakland, en Californie, au début des années 1960.
En 1962 il s'installe à New York, et reçoit rapidement le surnom de Pharoah par les membres de Sun Ra, avec lesquels il se produit. En 1965, il joue dans le groupe de John Coltrane, au moment où ce dernier commence à expérimenter un nouveau style de jazz, qu'on appellera plus tard le free jazz...
