"Heard at the Festival de Radio France and Montpellier, the Villerd Ayler Quartet was an intense moment of joy, desire, and urgency, far from any morbid or nostalgic pathos... What was captured on the record... (the band) retains. That alone is a good reason to celebrate this release. The others being the musicians' clear involvement, their shared love for powerful compositions..., and the evident relevance of this music full of joy, tenderness, and hope. A must-have for the records of the year, century, and millennium. In the records of jazz."
— Sylvain Siclier, Jazzman
