This transcendent, astonishingly beautiful work, from a five-year collaboration, culminates in genre-spanning exquisite music over nine continuous movements that could easily top the best of the year. The album opens with stillness, like a glistening dawn of keyboards and strings gradually building, with Sanders’ sax waking like a throaty birdcall. Floating Points, aka the Manchester born electronic producer and musician Sam Shepherd, has composed a series of interlinked leitmotifs, electronic birdsong and much more to produce a work that spans modern classical to jazz, cosmic psychedelia to electronica to cinematic soundtrack. Sanders, who hasn’t released new music a decade, employs the softer, slower more spiritual playing of his repertoire, and around Movement 4 he also adds non-verbal vocal hums and grumblings. By Movement 6 The London Symphony Orchestra swells its presence with more recognisably classical and canonical contributions, as the album becomes grander and more cinematic, fading to a gorgeous violin solo and Bartok Rite of Spring echo to see out Movement 9. Best heard on the finest speakers or headphones for one enraptured listen, a musical experience outstanding from first to last. Out on Luaka Bop.
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