Meditative Promises.
I wasn't really that interested in checking this album at first when it was released during the time that other acts such as Xiu Xiu, serpentwithfeet, Death From Above 1979, and others more also released their albums on that very same day, and given that I wasn't that familiar with most of the personnel on this album, it didn't really grabbed my attention regardless... Until a certain critic gave it a high score and I was pretty much inclined to listen to it.
And oh my God, this is just... Spellbinding, and I absolutely regretted not checking it out on the day that it released.
A single piece chopped into 9 movements, where electronic artist Floating Points, Legendary Tenor Sax player Pharoah Sanders, and accompanied with the London Symphony Orchestra to create this absolutely wondrous, searching, and healing album.
Repetitive piano chords with glassy textures play across the album that already sets the sound statement of the album. Then other instruments play for the next movements like the somber and breezy sax tones that Pharoah Sanders play and the harpsichord that compliments the piano, then comes with the strings that swoon through the movements and goes for that grand, emotionally resonant swell on 'Movement 6', then the last three movements adds some aftertouches with the birdsong like electronics and vocals and ending it off beautifully with a blissful soundscape with the violins that rises up from the heavens one more time, reaching that promises that it's trying to achieve. And it did.
Overall, it's just absolutely gorgeous, while I did wish there's a bit more at the early half of the piece to make 'Movement 6' have much more impact, it's a minor nitpick of mine is all. Because beyond that, the album just grabs my attention every time I listen to it, where every movement is just brimmed with so much soothing swell of sound and textures that I can't help but hear this again and again and again, a sanctuary for the promises that we all keep.