One of the best reviewed albums of the year, Promises is a collaborative studio album by British electronic musician Sam Shepherd, better known by his moniker Floating Points; American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders; and the London Symphony Orchestra.

John Coltrane left behind a legacy of experimental and extremely spiritual work whose timeless quality still reverberates today. After his untimely death many poseurs came out to stake their claim as the next Coltrane. Many tried and many failed. Then in 1969 a former sideman of Coltrane's, Pharoah Sanders, stepped out from the shadow of his mentor and recorded Karma, which bore the soul of Coltrane's musical and spiritual passion.