In November 1973, “Impulse!” label released “Village of the Pharoahs”, the eleventh Pharoah Sanders album. It was recorded in December 1971, November 1972, September 1973, at “Wally Heider Sound Studios” in San Francisco, “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, “A&R Recording Studios” in New York, and was produced by Ed Michel.

Personnel:

• Pharoah Sanders – vocals, soprano and tenor saxophone, percussion, bells
• Sedatrius Brown – vocals
• Joe Bonner – vocals, piano, shakuhachi, flute, percussion
• Stanley Clarke, Calvin Hill, Cecil McBee – bass
• Norman Connors – drums
• Jimmy Hopps – vocals, drums, percussion
• Kylo Kylo – tambura, percussion
• Lawrence Killian – vocals, conga, percussion
• Kenneth Nash – sakara, murdunom, percussion, whistles
• Baker Bigsby – engineer, mixing
• Dixon Van Winkle – engineer
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
• Tim Bryant – design
• Philip Melnick – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Pharoah Sanders.

1. Village of the Pharoahs Part 1
2. Village of the Pharoahs Part 2
3. Village of the Pharoahs Part 3
4. Myth
5. Mansion Worlds
6. Memories of Lee Morgan
7. Went Like It Came