Christian Vander is a monotheist: he adores Coltrane with a "Love Supreme" which protects his life from all weaknesses of the fleeting form, the mediocre kindnesses. If he is sometimes sombre in an incomprehensible brown study, it is that his temperament is out of reach for certain ideas which are common for the average Frenchman: Good taste and good sense are for him extraterrestrial notions from those of his groups ALIEN and MAGMA, of which he habitually wears the emblem. With his early 80's quartet, he thrived by the force of his conviction where everyone else had failed in the years since Coltrane's death: Reborn in the Coltraneian fashion, and returning a profound sense of speech which many others paraphrased without truly uttering. His hurricane "Elvin Jones" style creates a deluge of inspired phrases from his partners: Michel Graillier and Jean-Pierre Fouquey, who take it in turns on piano and synthesiser in a captivating emulation of Vander's energy; Alby Cullaz, visibly passionate within this experience, has broken away from his habitual "bop gigs", and perfectly integrates the generous sonority of his double bass with the very electric violence of the group. Don't wait for a rainy day to discover their meteoric charge of passion and optimism.