Promises is a 2021 studio album by the British electronic musician Floating Points, the American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra.

The piece begins with its central motif: a short pattern of notes played by Shepherd on synthesiser, piano and harpsichord.

The background is also populated by Sanders's atmospheric tenor saxophone passages, which vary in intensity and are positioned sparingly throughout.

[16][17] On 20 September 2023, Floating Points debuted Promises for its world-premiere performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

A one-time concert, it featured guest artists including Shabaka Hutchings, Four Tet, Caribou, the Los Angeles Studio Orchestra,[18] Kara-Lis Coverdale, Hinako Omori, Jeffrey Makinson, John Escreet, Lara Serafin and Sun Ra Arkestra.

[20] Directed by Trevor Tweeten, the film plays the composition in its entirety over views of Julie Mehretu's painting Congress (2003), which was also used in the album's cover art.

[23] Chiara Wilkinson of The Quietus called Promises a "celebration of sound at its finest and most pure: from the smallest scratch to cathartic crescendos, from spiralling improv to contemplative silences.

wrote that Sanders and Shepherd were "so metaphysically in tune with their latest creation that their respective musical personalities almost disappear into the waves of sound, making Promises a recording that is more of a transcending mind meld than it is a collaboration.

"[24] John Mulvey of Mojo compared the album to Henryk Górecki's symphonies and to Alice Coltrane's World Galaxy, calling it a "subtly sophisticated piece" that "creates space for Sanders to showcase his tender, measured, lyrical phrasing, abstracted scatting and [...] a brief sputtering blast of free saxophone energy that proves, at 80, his fire remains potent.

[27] Stephen Dalton of Uncut called it an "impressive collision of talents" but concluded that it was "frustratingly slight" and overall a minor addition to both artists' discographies.