Finaly!!!! Soon, soon, soon - The Japanese editions of the never CD-reissued Pharoah Impulse albums!!!!!!!
And more!!!!

■8/21発売（Venus Records)
・Welcome

■9/21発売（BOMBA)
・Izipho Zam

■9/26発売（SUBSTANCE）
・Journey To The One (紙ｼﾞｬｹ 仕様)
・Rejoice (紙ｼﾞｬｹ仕様)
・Shukuru (紙ｼﾞｬｹ仕様)
・Meditation - Pharoah Sanders Selections Take 2

■10/15発売（Universal Jazz）
・Elevation (Remaster 紙ｼﾞｬｹ仕様)!!!!!!!
・Love In Us All (Remaster 紙ｼﾞｬｹ仕様) !!!!!!!
・Thembi (Remaster 紙ｼﾞｬｹ仕様)
・Meditation - Pharoah Sanders Selection Take 1

■9/01 (Tokuma)
・Pharoah Sanders / Live At The East

Let's grab it!!! :)

Preorder here

Here I've found the best price for this forthcoming CD

Info form Downtown Music Gallery via Iain

Out: Apr 22, 2003

Tracks listing:

1. Across Time
2. Alankara
3. Gamaka
4. Morning Tale

To pre-order at CD Universe (best price)

What a story!

And...... LILI HAYDN, the beautiful Lili Haydn has just finished her new record for RCA Victor. The record should come out on May 6. It is produced by Bill Laswell and features George Clinton, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Karsh Kale
Check out Lili's website

Also still unconfirmed information about another Kahil el Zabar's Ritual Trio album with Pharoah

Leon Thomas -- Spirits Known & Unknown . . . CD . . . Late January, 2002 Wonderful work from Leon Thomas -- easily one of his greatest albums! The record was recorded in 1969, right at the time Leon was working with Pharoah Sanders -- and his days with the spiritual jazz giant shine through brightly on the session. The players include James Spaulding, Lonnie Liston Smith, Cecil McBee, and the enigmatic "Little Rock" (aka Pharoah Sanders!) on tenor. Includes a shorter version of "The Creator Has a Master Plan", than the one that was on Sanders' Karma album; an excellent vocal version of Horace Silver's classic "Song for My Father", with lyrics that we totally love; plus the frenetic dirge "Malcolm's Gone". Other tracks include "Damn Nam" and "Echoes". from Dusty Groove America

with Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter

CD Palm Pictures 2068

Track list

1. Gud Fella - 5:35
2. Mengedegna - 5:33
3. Tew Ante Sew - 4:20
4. Abay - 5:18
5. Bale Washintu - 5:35
6. Guramayle - 4:27
7. Sew Argeñ - 5:16
8. Aynama - 5:05
9. Kahn - 3:47
10. Zomaye - 4:00
11. Abet Wubet - 4:07
12. Nafekeñ - 5:23
13. Adwa - 5:02

from this site about baker

another info about the same story:

Arthur Baker Classics Collection Coming

Arthur Baker, one of the most influential dance-music and hip-hop producers of the 1980s, will release a collection of his classic tracks this summer on Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Records.

Among the influential cuts to be included on the Perfecto compilation, which is as yet untitled, are the seminal single "Planet Rock," a trope of Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express" recorded by Afrika Bambaataa + Soul Sonic Force in 1982, Rocker's Revenge's "Walking on Sunshine" and New Order's "Confusion," a 1983 club hit that crossed over to the American R&B chart.

Baker said the compilation will also feature a second disc of his dance mix cuts from the '80s and '90s.

"It's all the stuff I'm known for, really," he said, adding that his music has been featured on a number of compilations, most notably Tommy Boy Records' four-volume 1998 collection The Perfect Beats, but that they were "never sort of mine."

In addition, Baker has completed more than a dozen songs for a solo album, The One That Got Away, which he said would be out in the fall.

The record is heavy on collaborations with artists from across the musical spectrum, including Mogwai guitarist/singer Stuart Braithwaite, Primal Scream bassist Mani, former New Order bassist Peter Hook (a.k.a. Hooky), raunchy techno-punk queen Peaches, jazz legend PHAROAH SANDERS and members of UK power-pop trio Ash. The rhythm section of Roni Size's Reprazent crew, bassist Si John and drummer Rob Merrill play on three tracks.

Baker described the songs, all of which he wrote or co-wrote, as quite diverse. "It's danceable, it's punk, there's a sort of punky jazz thing," he said. "If you like Primal Scream's album [2000's XTRMNTR], Death in Vegas and that kinda stuff, you'll like this."

For the past three years, Baker has focused almost entirely on the new album ó which will be his third solo full-length, following the largely unheralded Merge (1989) and Give in to the Rhythm (1991).

He said he plays bass, harmonica and keyboards on it, in addition to doing all drum programming. Linking the seemingly disparate styles on The One, he said, was "actually, my relationship with my ex-girlfriend," although he rejected the notion that it was any sort of "rock opera."

The album's guest artists overlap in several intriguing combinations, including one track with Braithwaite on guitar, Mani on bass and Hook on another bass part, and a recently recorded track co-written with Adam Snyder ó who played keyboards on Mercury Rev's 1998 LP, Deserter's Songs ó which Baker said would feature Tindersticks singer Stuart Staples on vocals.

Baker's innovative use of electronic instruments and tape edits in hip-hop and his dance-oriented remixes of pop hits, such as Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," helped pave the way for the development of a variety of future styles. They include the pervasive electro sound of the mid-'80s to the early Detroit techno rhythms of Cybotron and Derrick May.

"Put the Needle to the Record," another Baker cut he said would likely be featured on the collection (recorded in 1987 under the alias Criminal Element Orchestra), is widely considered the first hip-hop collage, having spawned similar "edits" by artists such as Double D & Steinski, Coldcut and Cut Chemist, not to mention the genre of turntablism as a whole. Fresh off a trip to Cuba and back in London, his home for the last five years, Baker has decided to try to do his part to help end the U.S. embargo of Cuba, which he called "outrageous." He said a recent conversation with Moby may lead to a benefit music-event toward that goal, perhaps called Rock the Blockade, although no specific plans have been made. Baker was among the driving forces behind the 1985 collaborative "Sun City" anti-apartheid track and awareness project.