Sunday night, September 25, 2022 — 9:21 p.m.
I just learned that Pharaoh Sanders died in Los Angels two days ago.
This was music beyond a universal prayer in which the “depth of field” exceeded any possible parallels “with” language.
Nevertheless, my question of the moment is: how would Wittgenstein have revised his work if he could have heard “Promises”?
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/if-youre-in-the-song-keep-on-playing-pharoah-sanders-interview
“If You’re In the Song, Keep On Playing”: An Interview with Pharoah Sanders by Nathaniel Friedman (January 12, 2020)
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https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/1124925662/pharoah-sanders-dies-at-81-obituary
https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/09/25/pharoah-sanders-dies-appreciation/
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““The whole musical persona of Pharoah Sanders is of a consciousness in conscious search of a higher consciousness,”
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“Pharoah has incredible power, and incredible tenderness soulfulness like a love of playing, of sound, that will spread your consciousness dazzled among his notes.” –Amiri Baraka
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