{"product_id":"pharoah-sanders-bill-laswell-with-a-heartbeat","title":"Pharoah Sanders \u0026 Bill Laswell - With A Heartbeat","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 2003, With A Heartbeat brings together Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell and Graham Haynes in a collaboration that remains as elusive as it is forward-thinking.\u003cbr\u003eNow reissued by Glossy Mistakes, the album receives its first official vinyl edition, remastered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the core of the record lies an unusual but striking element: the steady pulse of a human heartbeat.\u003cbr\u003eRather than a conceptual gesture, it becomes the foundation of the music itself-treated as a deep, bass-like rhythm that anchors the entire album.\u003cbr\u003eAround it, Laswell builds his unmistakable sonic world, drawing from dub techniques where basslines expand, dissolve, and reemerge, and where space becomes as important as sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross its extended compositions, the album unfolds slowly and deliberately.\u003cbr\u003eLayers of electric sitar, guitar, keyboards and subtle percussion drift in and out, creating a fluid, almost tidal movement.\u003cbr\u003eThe heartbeat remains present throughout, grounding even the most abstract passages in something physical and immediate.\u003cbr\u003eAt the center stands Sanders' saxophone-searching, expansive, and deeply spiritual.\u003cbr\u003eHis playing moves freely across the structures, at times echoing the lineage of John Coltrane, while also reaching beyond it.\u003cbr\u003eAlongside him, Haynes adds a complementary voice, weaving through the shifting textures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a work that resists easy definition: part spiritual jazz, part future-facing experiment, shaped by dub's sense of space and transformation.\u003cbr\u003eMeditative, immersive, and deeply rhythmic, With A Heartbeat unfolds like a living organism-guided not by fixed tempo, but by the pulse of life itself.\u003cbr\u003eWith this release, Glossy Mistakes continues its work of bringing essential and forward-thinking recordings into new formats, preserving their depth while opening them to new listeners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glossy Mistakes","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":58245482611020,"sku":"BLX-14625","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0841\/2738\/3884\/files\/4251804189644.jpg?v=1785327625","url":"https:\/\/badlands.co.uk\/products\/pharoah-sanders-bill-laswell-with-a-heartbeat","provider":"Badlands","version":"1.0","type":"link"}