My spiritual guide is now free to roam. What a life. RIP Pharoah Sanders. When I was 23 - in 1995, and I had just started assisting live sound at the Knitting Factory, he was playing 2 sets a night for 5 nights. I experienced every set, some while working and some just in the audience. I have never been the same. On the opening night, after they soundchecked, everyone left, except me, and Pharoah. Pharoah went to the back to practice. He didn't know anyone else was around. I sat around the corner slumped in a hallway, and listened to him play, alone, for probably 45 minutes. It was like he told me everything I needed to know about life in that moment. I sat and smiled and cried and smiled and went places in my mind and came back... no one there... just Pharoah playing to the gods while I listened. My life was so drastically altered and opened because of Pharoah Sanders. Go find him now. He is still out there, and you can listen too, like I did. If you watch and listen to this with full attention from beginning to end, you will be elevated to a new consciousness too.

@exactlywhatisaid

Жыл бұрын

that's beautiful man

@tomybogadjian1487

Жыл бұрын

this is crazy. thank you

@bobbybringi

Жыл бұрын

Brian, thanks for sharing these deep insights. May his souls roam and Rest In Peace and power😢

@fokal.strktr

Жыл бұрын

@gad_mosheshalom5099

Жыл бұрын

Waht an amazing experience you had. R.i.p unbelievable musician he was.

I wish I knew others who liked this type of music. So beautiful.

It’s almost as if he is playing for all of humanity

@pumazpawz

5 ай бұрын

He is.

@user-rt4fe1pp7r

3 күн бұрын

I get that, its so grand, it feel like its gong to amount in me seeing a vision of god

My GF passed away recently, 29 years young. This allows the emotions to just pour out of me. It’s not even sadness. Just peace and acceptance. Thank you Sir, RIH

@themplanetz

15 күн бұрын

Really sorry about your loss mate. Sending good vibes your way.

@kevscho3779

7 күн бұрын

That’s nice you shared the tough experience with us. It gives us perspective on something we’ve been through or are going to go through. Blessings to you.

@Simon-xi8tb

5 күн бұрын

you will meet her again

how is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

@johnhopkins494

2 ай бұрын

That's wonderful. Consider questioning the nature of what you have known.

@tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t

2 ай бұрын

That is simply you being able to now connect with your higher self, which is outside of all time. You’re able to perceive the melancholia that the higher self experiences or rather, you experience it as a form of déjà vu when in actuality, it is your higher self perceiving that Dimension, if that makes any sense 😂

@majo7097

2 ай бұрын

@@tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t i'm completely disconnected from reality

@oneheartgaming

Ай бұрын

@@tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t no

@glenthemann

Ай бұрын

Past life bro

i cannot overstate how infinitely and eternally cool this is

@user-qn9tm8yp5b

8 ай бұрын

i can

@bert_gimspon

8 ай бұрын

Infinitely AND eternally? Lol... Wow that's like twice the, foreverness..

@ItchyKneeSon

7 ай бұрын

I believe the words of Lenny Pepperbottom describe it perfectly. "That's pretty neat."

The fact there’s an ad in the middle of this is a sin. Beautiful piece by Pharoah

@Yosef9438

4 ай бұрын

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Me and some friends had the privilege to see Pharaoh Sanders play in August 2022 at We Out Here festival, which would go on to be his final live performance. They opened with this song and while the man himself was fashionably late and did seem quite frail (he needed his bandmates to help him in/out of his chair), you wouldn't believe the power in his lungs at 81 and his enduring ability to draw energy through his music and breathe it out as pure emotion to the crowd. About 5000 people huddled on a hill to watch a man who has been a leading figure in Jazz and an active contributor to modern music for nearly 70 years display his virtuosic mastery one final time. He managed to create such an incredible feeling of unity amongst the crowd - looking around and seeing people you've never met before brought to the same tears as yourself, holding loved ones and stunned into humbled silence - from the moment they began playing there was an immediate impression on the crowd that we were witnessing something profound and much larger than all of us. He was escorted on and off stage by his son the incredibly talented Tomoki Sanders, who's words on his death will do better than mine: "To some, they lost Pharaoh Sanders, one of the greatest black creatives in black American music... To some, they lost a friend, who had a big heart, and a beautiful and humble spirit... To some, they lost Ferrell Lee Sanders, a brother, a cousin, a husband, a father, an uncle, a grandfather To me, I lost a father, the best dad in the entire universe. I’ve been listening to his music, or music that sampled his music, relentlessly... and I am feeling better that, his sound and his music makes me feel that he’s still alive... As he says (after the festival), "the world needs more music! ..." and he’s absolutely right. The world needs more music" RIP Pharaoh Sanders 1940 - 2022

@malk6277

Жыл бұрын

I just wanted to say: I get the exact same sense - that he lives on. I feel this with Fela Kuti also. Both created streams of meaning that hint at eternity, through their music. They journeyed and took us with them, and the sound says emphatically that the journey, the permutations, do not end.

@user-tm9yz8vl5j

Жыл бұрын

why parhaoh he is not egyptian

@Ybor-ld6uq

Жыл бұрын

Blessed love brother. He STILL means so much to me and my family.

@ancientsoundsfromthefuture4214

Жыл бұрын

Ths first song at WOH was actually John Coltrane's 'Welcome'. ;)

@ericwaters8141

3 ай бұрын

@@user-tm9yz8vl5j apparently Sun Ra encouraged him to go by the name while Pharoah Sanders was living with him

2024 I listen to this whenever I lose something important in life prbly to heal idk tho cheers from china

My inner walls crumble and I I burst into tears. We were all babies once. That baby is allowed to cry again tonight. 💐💐💐💐🙏🏼

This music is so important. Don't let love slip away.

@dee-deebe9256

8 ай бұрын

Ase'O!!!!💙🩵💙

This is the best thing I could’ve listened too to start off 2024.

It's stuff like this that made me take up the saxophone. I probably should have taken up digging tunnels, but I love this beautiful music.

@ozenfant_ozn

Жыл бұрын

lol

@urproblem

13 күн бұрын

Why not both? Go dig a tunnel and play your sax in it like our man Pharoah

i am having a stupid peeloff mask on my face for a saturday morning spa and tears started flowing down my face after the first few notes. its spring again in vienna, finally.

The instrument Pharoah’s accompanist is playing is called a harmonium. Similar to accordion but without buttons

@eyeliketwoskate

Жыл бұрын

ur a legend m8

@olebennyboy7462

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, I thought it was a shruti box

@ATLS702

11 ай бұрын

@@olebennyboy7462thank you for sharing! I had no idea of this instrument, take the keys away from this and you have the shruti box. Very interesting

@olebennyboy7462

11 ай бұрын

@@ATLS702 No, thank you for sharing. Now we both know new instruments

Absolutely transcending! ❤️ possibly the most beautiful piece of music I've heard

This is what childhood sounds like.

i wish at a certain time of day everyday this played thru loudspeakers througought all cities througoght the world. then everybody go back to work. calm and peaceful.

@zypherax

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same but for hospitals. This and structures of silence by Steve Roach

@LocsTheChef

4 жыл бұрын

Being in 1 city, how do you know this records 5 was played everywhere? This record resonates with the depths of my soul yet I find it hard to contemplate this record was played for the masses. My parents nor grandparents never played Pharaoh but I feel him on another level.. my 2¢

@hughdell4770

3 жыл бұрын

Why going back to work or anything after this?

@alexschultz742

3 жыл бұрын

One day if I ever become wealthy enough to make it a reality, I think it'd be nice to start a sustainable farm project utilising the vast arid land in my state of Australia for a solar panel farm to power a hydroponic open air farm. Then as the sun set on this arid-desert land every evening, over a vast array of speakers pointed into the distant nowhere over these fields; this would play.

@simonalford2495

2 жыл бұрын

I am a student at Cornell University and three times a day the bell tower plays 15 minute chimes concerts that can be heard across campus. Sadly most days are pop songs that don't sound good on chimes. The large bells would be the perfect medium for music in the vein of Pharoah and other ambient work

you don't understand, i could actually feel the emotions conveyed through those sullen melodies. i feel a deep sense of profound sadness, sometimes a peace that trancends my own comprehension of being, as such sensations are rarely ever evoked so gracefully as this piece. now i feel both hopeful and enlightened by the world, now i am devastated. fuck. i can't believe this exists.

who’s here in 2024?

@yisyvonne

3 ай бұрын

me!!!

@markdaddywilliams

2 ай бұрын

I haven't left since 2008

@laylael1072

2 ай бұрын

Me

@laylael1072

2 ай бұрын

Jk its just my friend

@clementesolanoquesney7096

Ай бұрын

Here am i, enjoying this beautiful melodies! Love Pharoah eternally❤

Live from an abandoned tunnel, now that's real shit.

What an incredible sound. I'm crying. It took 15 years but this video found me. I'm so glad.

Whenever I have a difficult time in life this is one of the videos I come back to. Thank you for posting and thank you Pharoah for being the embodiment of artistic truth.

I am so lucky and thankful I found this

@evelynflasch

7 ай бұрын

I'm so upset I didn't discover this before he died last year

@Elhastezy888

7 ай бұрын

​@@evelynflasch why be upset (?) you were supposed to find it now🤍

He was a master at finding spaces for his music to soar.

I always found it tricky to get absolutely sucked into jazz, Coltrane was cool but just never pulled me in; it was the same with everyone else I listened too. Bill Evans was the closest I ever came to being pulled in, but even that never lasted long. But when I found Pharaoh, things changed. The week I found Pharaoh I blasted through 10 of his albums one after the other with continued relistens in between. I think maybe its his spiritual approach that drags me in, even his more straight free jazz stuff feels accessible and enjoyable.

I want this to play during my funeral

@danjaspen5721

6 жыл бұрын

I always pictured "Psalm" from A Love Supreme playing at mine but this fits too.

@mamanomusa-storyteller764

Жыл бұрын

Let's just admit we won't die until they agree to play it. Gotta put it in my will...

@thomasandersen2764

Жыл бұрын

and to be played by my resurrection

@anamariaguzman1483

Жыл бұрын

me too

@Yosef9438

4 ай бұрын

"Filthy Habits" by Frank Zappa

Tears rolling down my face, man. Rest In Peace you beautiful soul. God is proud.

This footage is taken from Mark B. Allen’s 2007 film "Pharoah Sanders Live In San Francisco!", which compiles concerts recorded in 1981 and 1982, alongside an interview with jazz journalist Herb Wong.

I watch this video whenever I feel scared of death. God bless you for this little piece of joy. Even when life gets bad you’re never alone. Everything and nothing.

@junipercosmic6841

8 ай бұрын

Hi Damien 👋 You never have to be afraid of death if you have J e s u s. “Where, Oh death, is your victory? Where, Oh death, is your sting?” - C o r i n i n t h i a n s 1, 15:55.

@Siimeon98

7 ай бұрын

Indeed! Jesus Christ is Lord. ❤️

@Coincidence_Theorist

7 ай бұрын

Mushrooms will help you with that fear. Go out in nature and speak to God. Who made mushrooms hmmm ? Hm?

@Funkfuzzz

5 ай бұрын

I would rather be scared of death than actually believe in this pathetic idea who you call god 😃

@judah142

5 ай бұрын

@@Funkfuzzz this is a sad comment my friend i hope you get better

Pharaoh Sanders was fucking deep........ so incredibly beautiful

Pharoah Sanders being Col. Sanders Illegittamite son from his travels around the world looking for the perfect spices .

I was 12 years old when this soulful journey of a masterpiece was manifested by the great late Pharaoh Sanders. R.I.P elder on your cosmic journey to the one "Allah".

The harmonic resonance is incredible...I thought this was over dubbed on a mixing board when I 1st started watching. Everything Pharoah does is supernatural

There is something transcendent about Pharoah's playing. He has always struck me a western Sufi mystic and nothing illustrates that more than this video. From the first frame to the last the spirit flows through breath and brass. "Hearken to this Reed forlorn, Breathing, even since 'twas torn From its rushy bed, a strain Of impassioned love and pain. The secret of my song, though near, None can see and none can hear. Oh for a friend to know the sign And mingle all his soul with mine! 'Tis the flame of Love that fired me, 'Tis the wine of Love inspired me. Wouldst thou learn how lovers bleed, Hearken, hearken to the Reed!" Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

@brianpatterson7332

5 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful piece of verse. Thanks for posting it. It goes so well with this gorgeous performance by Pharoah. (I 'll be seeing him live in Dublin in less than 3 weeks - can't wait!)

@jowlorenz9555

4 жыл бұрын

check out the creator has a master plan ...

@westerrnredcedar

3 жыл бұрын

Salaam Alikum, I am a practicing Sufi and neyzen/soprano saxophonist. From what I can tell Pharoah is Muslim and may even have taken hand (bayat) in a Sufi order. That being said I see this composition as in the tradition of devotional music he was taught by the great John Coltrane. I just shared this video with friends paired with a wonderful Ney Video as two expressions of devotional wind music.May the most merciful of the merciful continue to bless you. Hu

@sechoochamakhoalibe625

2 жыл бұрын

Soul soothing

@BsYtHandle

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the poetry.

It so happens that am listening to this masterpiece on what would have been your 82nd birthday. RIP legend. You have gifted us with your magnificent talent and your music will live forever.

Rest in peace to a legend, creator of some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard.

WOW. Every once and awhile you stumble onto something unexpected and magnificent online. Thank you for sharing!

i’ve cried from hearing music only one time before at a church because the lyrics were particularly moving and relatable to me at that time. this is the second time, and i can’t tell if they’re solemn tears or joyful ones, but this is the second time in my life that music has ever made me cry. RIP Pharoah.

His Grace Cathedral stuff is the ultimate. Lucky to have been there. I remember an ambulance was coming up the hill and he mimicked it. What an incredible performance.

@AyoHues

6 жыл бұрын

Jx Hemphill Amazing! Tell us more! When and where was this?

@jacksonlea6078

6 жыл бұрын

A Hughes That was Branford Marsalis

@greggdessen

Жыл бұрын

I remember. Was an otherworldly experience.

My first exposure to Pharoah, love it

so simple, beautiful and profound: a man walking through a tunnel, light at the beginning and at the end, looking for and finding inspiration, floating time ..

Absolutely beautiful. This is what true music does - takes you away from this crap world led by idiots and shows you how life is meant to be.

I can very much see Colin Stetson carrying this inspiration

Really like how he uses the tunnels acoustics . very haunting stuff ! and there is circular breathing hear too ! Great tenor player !

RIP to a master of his craft and a spiritual being like no other. Thank you for your original creativity in making the world a better place

It's just so beautiful. I can't take it. I get emotional when I hear this.

@maodo-ma-Ngai

4 жыл бұрын

Riiight!!!! Just held my cat and pored out words of love

@marcelamsss

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! So perfect.

@cheri238

Жыл бұрын

Perfection 🥰 💞

I'd follow this piper anywhere.

@maodo-ma-Ngai

3 жыл бұрын

😅

2024 and that sound to me means tenderness, peace.

Music is beautiful, the world is beautiful, thank you for sharing yo art Pharoah

This video is the best video that exists on the Internet

first time I listen to Pharoah Sanders, first time I experience something like this

I have had the good fortune to hear Pharaoh in person numerous times, from 1965 to ~2005. This unpretentious little recording is one of his best--Pharaoh at his purest.

Moved me to tears. Venus as boy, for sure.

The most hauntingly beautiful piece of art I've seen/heard yet

@mistery-ed7900

4 жыл бұрын

During this time of worldwide crisis this is what I return to.

@Yigit-nw4et

2 ай бұрын

can you recommend me pieces like these?

What a thrill to read all these amazing comments! Thank you all. Ever since I first heard Pharoah’s music I envisioned something like this performance. For helping to make this happen, thanks go to my wife Barbara Allen and partner Allan Kessler; Allen Pittman, Mark Needham, and Betty Kazuko Ishida of Theresa Records; Benjamin Young, Jim Nadel, and André Spears; and: Howard Rosen of Evidence Music. And of course, thanks to Pharoah and Paul Arslanian for this sublime performance!

@timneave3240

5 жыл бұрын

Well, thanks to you to the utmost too.

@danielmiller-lionberg5037

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Allen, this is awesome, thanks for helping make it happen. I've listened to/watched it many times. Are there more pieces to this performance - is this part of a larger set? Is it available to get in higher res somewhere? Fascinated.... Thanks.

@danielmiller-lionberg5037

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, I did find this Library of Congress listing www.loc.gov/item/jots.200023205

@markallen1982

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielmiller-lionberg5037 Sorry for very slow response. Looks like the DVD Pharoah Sanders Live in San Francisco is still available on Amazon. Unfortunately, at the time, ¾" video was all we could afford. We did record the sound on a professional film tape recorder (Nagra). Also, I do not know how they got hold of it, but someone uploaded one of the totally unedited reels we shot at the Great American Music Hall in 1982 (not 1985) here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/doagyZqml5TJqqQ.html also: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hpuu0M5-oNrXaKg.html

@ForrestGander

3 жыл бұрын

Mark, do you know where he lives now? Didn't he move from Oakland?

Greatest video ever

Boy that algorithm is something else. No regrets hopping in here

@CollectionOfTheTimeless-ug4vq

Ай бұрын

The algorithm is only learning from you.:)

I remember watching a video of Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra and Syd Barrett in Egypt, the great pyramids, for the summer solstice. It may have been a dream, because I can’t seem to find it anymore. I once met a man who named his daughter Thembi, when I said…beautiful name and my favorite Pharoah Sanders album, he was very impressed a young man knew the origins of his inspiration. We were brethren from other sistren. Blessings and Respect.

This is the most incredible ten minutes of sound, absolutely transcendent and just so moving.

15 years later youtube shows me this out yhe blue

Imagine you are walking by those trees, and It starts to flow this kind of voice of the human being, oh music, i cant be more thankful

this is the best thing on youtube

This banger straight from heaven

Absolutely beautiful. Tranquil

He is one of a kind. Eternal. And the Shruti Box Idea is brilliant !!! I am honoured to say we recorded a song just with voices, acoustic guitars and...a Shruti Box when I didnt know about the existence of this Pharoah S.video💙

A customer of mine just recommended Sanders to me a month or two ago, just before he passed. I feel blessed to have heard some of his music while he was still here. And i will continue to listen for years. Truly an inspiration

Que loucura sinceramente! Que frequência alta! 2024 as 18:10

shame i only found this after his passing this is wonderful

So much love and wonder and grief and melancholy in this piece. ❤️ I love I love I love.

Speechless

could stay here for a while - thank you!

can't believe this exist. What a treasure ... Most beautiful music ever

That tunnel is in the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco! You can still visit it

@Elhastezy888

7 ай бұрын

Thank YOUuuu!! I knew it!! I flippin new *IT* 🤍 many many blessings

when he switches from the circular breathing back to the melody oh my god

@JamesVibe

9 ай бұрын

That truly was incredible ..... and the way he comes out of it with this beautiful tone.... no one was like him! Such a unique style sound. Above all... he was transcendent !

RIP Pharoah Sanders. It wrenches my heart to imagine what it would have been like to experience his playing live. thank you to all he has given us and inspired in others musically and spiritually.

How many times have you returned to this video? For me it must be at least 20

@dg1llard

5 жыл бұрын

mistery-ed Dozens! Always will.

@ladyaudiomusic

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. Dozens.

@thebongblob1904

4 жыл бұрын

the last time will be my funeral!

@mistery-ed7900

4 жыл бұрын

@@thebongblob1904 I'm probably up to a hundred times by now.

@rocknurzo

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for taking me to this video! came from the poolside lol

A journey lifetime long, in a blink of an eye

The real world is not enought.

Maybe my favorite thing ever played on the tenor. Makes me cry and has gotten me through some tough times.

If there is a paradise this is the tunnel leading to it

It is an amazing feeling to find acoustically special structures in the urban environment. Pharoah Sanders and Paul Arslanian found one

Pharoah Sanders is a true living legend a master of the tenor...

Incredibly small number of likes of 120 for such a magical gem

This is deeply spiritual stuff. He is playing to the Gods right here. We are not his audience. But we can eavesdrop if we like, and get a sense of what it is like!

@dee-deebe9256

8 ай бұрын

Ase' Ase' Ase'❤👏🏽❤

@jeffwilliams6681

8 ай бұрын

Perfectly said.

@zvonimirmikic2932

8 ай бұрын

well said yo

@onepointeight

7 ай бұрын

There is God. Without s

@sonquatsch8585

7 ай бұрын

@@onepointeight exactly, and pharoah himself would have said he is not playing to god, rather god through him. they always gotta be mixin it up and makin some hocus pocus out of it. they always think they are greater than He. we are not WORTHY to even dont get me started.

Highly spiritual... This is very Soulful

I’d cry if I saw this in person

Rest in peace to one of the greatest musicians of all time. Your presence will be missed - but your music will not; for it will live forever, along with the fond memory of its genius creator.

10 of the best minutes of my life

This just appeared in my timeline today,11/20/23. My favorite song by Pharoah Sanders is "Astral Traveling." But this song reminds me of watching the sun slowly beginning to rise on a beautiful clear day & letting its warmth just embrace you...🥰 🥰

SPACE MUSIC across the Universe. Ocean 🌊 waves. Sirens haunting whispering voices, echoing individual words until one voice "is all". Uh huh 😉 Pure musical liguid gold 🥇 A glance from the Creator.

This is the type of video I simply download. I'm afraid it vanishes from the internet and I never get to watch it again

He is unique. And the way he uses the Circular Breathing , his Technic is so powerful and mistical .wow . Music And Love

I just started playing in this very tunnel. It is awesome.

Between heaven and earth there is Pharoah Sanders

REST IN POWER PHAROAH had to come back and watch this again today

Easily one of the best videos on youtube.

@snowfoal

3 жыл бұрын

your pfp is cursed

i come back to this every once in a while

We will never forget you pharoh sander.you wiil be forever in our heart..thanks for all the joy and healing you've given through your music. Rest in power great man

This is the greatest jazz recording of all time. It’s so different to the record. I wonder if it survives anywhere other than here? And if not, how can we preserve it? I worry about it.