This is a live gig recorded in Berlin in 1988. "There's no letup for the entire set; it's one dazzling display after another until the piece just implodes from exhaustion -- physical, that is, as the ideas still come fast and furious -- and leaves the listener dazed and awed by such a soulful yet pyrotechnic display. This is one of Cecil Taylor's most "melodic" improvisations ever."

Disc has some minor marks.

• 1 Stylobate 1
• 2 Leaf Palm Hand
• 3 Chimes
• 4 Stylobate 2
• 5 The Old Canal