FLOATING POINTS / PHAROAH SANDERS and the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Promises LP

Not that modern music necessarily needs its soul back, but just in case it did, then here's one of its greatest advocates.

Leaning in the best possible way towards records like 'In a Silent Way' and hints of Bacharach in its harmonies, 'Promises' is not simply a collaboration - co-operation seems a more fitting term, Sanders' scales dazzlingly beautiful, Floating Points putting the "C" in celestial, and the London Symphony Orchestra a magic wand teasing stars to come follow it through the heavens as each note tip-toes across every single one.