PHAROAH SANDERS - Message From Home (1996) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The world music-minded producer Bill Laswell gets a hold of Pharoah Sanders here and lo, the sleeping volcano erupts with one of his most fulfilling albums in many a year. Message From Home is rooted in, but not exclusively devoted to, African idioms, as the overpowering hip-hop groove of "Our Roots (Began In Africa)" points out. But the record really develops into something special when Sanders pits his mighty tenor sound against the pan-African beats, like the ecstatically joyful rhythms of "Tomoki" and the poised, percolating fusion of American country & western drums and Nigerian juju guitar riffs on "Country Mile." In addition, "Nozipho" is a concentrated dose of the old Pharoah, heavily spiritual and painfully passionate, with a generous supply of the tenor player's famous screeching rhetoric, and kora virtuoso Foday Musa Suso shows up on "Kumba" with a touch of village Gambian music. This resurrection will quicken the pulse of many an old Pharoah fan. Richard S. Ginell
Tracklist :
1    Our Roots (Began In Africa)    10:21
Written-By – Pharoah Sanders
2    Nozipho    9:43
Written-By – Pharoah Sanders
3    Tomoki    6:26
Written-By – Pharoah Sanders
4    Ocean Song    8:49
Written-By – Pharoah Sanders
5    Kumba    7:50
Written-By – Pharoah Sanders / Foday Musa Suso
6        Country Mile    6:03
Written-By – Pharoah Sanders
Credits :
Acoustic Bass – Charnett Moffett
Backing Vocals – Fanta Mangasuba, Fatumata Sako, Mariama Suso, Salie Suso
Bass – Steve Neil
Drums, Tabla, Drums [Frame Drums], Vocals – Hamid Drake
Electric Piano, Piano, Vocals – William Henderson
Guitar – Dominic Kanza
Keyboards, Programmed By – Jeff Bova
Keyboards, Vocals – Bernie Worrell
Kora, Kora [Dousongonni], Vocals – Foday Musa Suso
Percussion [Chatan], Congas, Bells, Gong, Vocals – Aiyb Dieng
Producer – Bill Laswell
Saxophone, Flute, Bells, Vocals, Singing Bowls [Bowls] – Pharoah Sanders
Violin – Michael White