Title: An Overlooked Gem
Product review: "Elevation" is an album that fits nicely with much of the rest of Pharoah's Impulse! catalogue. Most of the elements one would expect to find in a Pharoah Sanders album from this period (early 1970s) are here: music that is alternately meditative and furious (some of the best free improv of the period can be found in those loud furious orgiastic moments); chants; tunes that place emphasis on percussion; at least one tune featuring sitar. Add to the mix elements of Nigerian Highlife. He's at the top of his game, and the band plays with that sense of looseness and familiarity that comes with years of working together. Mostly it sounds like a bunch of good friends having a deep, spirited conversation. Well worth picking up. Hopefully "Elevation" will be reissued here in the States.
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