Critical Views
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| Allmusic | |
The recording is criticised by Pierro Scaruffi, who writes: " albums became more irrational and experimental. Strange Strings (1966)...was still accessible compared with Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold (June 1964), released in 1976, whose The Voice of Pan and Dawn Over Israel were childish orgies of random sounds."
Sean Westergaard's review on allmusic.com similarly describes it as "more of a curio than a great listening experinece, and probably best left for the Ra and Pharoah Sanders completists."
Additionally, it is an extremely rare album (although digitised versions have circulated on internet blogs and filesharing services), and is also very short in length (no more than 25 minutes).
The album was reissued by ESP Disk in 2009, adding 5 stereo live tracks to the 6 original mono tracks.
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