If EPIC song intros are your thing that this album has something for you. Karma features 19 minute jazz songs with 2 minute intros. Pharoah Sanders and his Tenor Sax leads this 8-10 piece jazz band. The first track "The Creator and His Master Plan"starts with an EPIC intro (surprise) and then drops into a nice little break, that would make a nice hip-hop song. The song then kind of builds into a jazzy song that you might hear on the soundtrack to Hair the Musical. Enter side B. The first song and most of side B is what sounds to be the end of the first track on side A. It fades in, EPIC intro, and then takes it to a place that you wouldn't expect. The song shifts into the bastard son of John Coltrane's "Sun Ship." To me it sounded like someone being slowly murdered in the forest by an axe and the screams of the victim being played by Sanders Tenor Sax. All in all the album, Pharoah Sanders - Karma, was a fair listen and if anything the break on the first song makes it worth it.
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