Well I, myself, found this CD. I bought it in the early 90s to import radius FNAC Le Mans (250F) at a time when the FNAC was not obsessed with efficiency in its stores and where she dared import from Japan that kind of rarity . 5 stars because it's Coltrane and none of his recordings least deserves. Still, this album, which is not really one, since it is an assembly of two unrelated sessions (see comments above notified) leaves hungry. Apart from the novelty of the two beaches with Trane, this album does not take too upright. Transition period (but the music of Coltrane did not she always in motion and it is not ultimately a great all?), These records of 2 February 1966 without first McCoy Tyner or Elvin Jones. 23 minutes research, fury, soothing, sounds of infinite layers, where the will of the saxophonist to say everything in a quest for the absolute which can repel hynotiser (as we will have smoked the carpet before or not) but do not leave indifferent. I remember a few years ago, a critic François-René Simon in "Jazz Magazine" about Lives in Japan made in July of the same year. I remember this formula: "unbearable and indispensable". It is music all there was less friendly and unifying. It has not aged in over forty years. The two pieces of Mrs. Coltrane are just there to remind us how much we miss ... Discographiquement, so there are four tracks recorded date February 66. "Manifestation" and "Reverend King" that are on this album, and "Peace on earth" found without unnecessary additions of Madame on the CD "Jupiter variation" and finally "Leo" found on rare album also "Infinity" as well as a triple vinyl (never reissued I think) entitled "Energy Essentials" at Impulse, a sort of compilation of these years "free", but in both cases, with the strings added in 72 Alice Coltrane.
