Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
1970 studio album by Pharoah Sanders / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It was recorded at A & R Studios in New York City on July 1, 1970, and released on Impulse! Records in the same year. The album's title is bilingual: "Summun Bukmun Umyun" is Arabic for "Deaf Dumb Blind".
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Released | October 1970[1] | |||
Recorded | July 1, 1970 | |||
Studio | A & R Studios, New York, NY | |||
Genre | Spiritual jazz | |||
Length | 39:02 | |||
Label | Impulse! | |||
Producer | Ed Michel | |||
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The phrase صُمٌّ بُكْمٌ عُمْيٌ ṣummun, bukmun, ʻumyun is taken from verse 18 of Surat al-Baqarah in the Qur'an. According to the liner notes, the album is "predicated on spiritual truths and to the future enlightenment of El Kafirun or The Rejectors of Faith (non-believers)."
The performances on the album are strongly influenced by the music of Africa.