"Tachibana is a ball of energy, full of passion and power. It isn’t perfectly recorded or perfectly played, and it doesn’t have the sort of stately manners common to many Japanese jazz records, but it’s full of the sort of fearless bluster you find in musicians who are young, hungry, and blessed. For Western jazz fans, there are obvious reference points; the sax playing recalls mid ’60s John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, and Wayne Shorter—that type of surging, muscular sound. But the album also has some fierce Latin vibrations, too. There’s a cover of Chick Corea’s Latin jazz classic “La Fiesta” and Brazilian bossa nova number “Samba De Orfeu” by Luiz Bonfá, played by the Quartet at an atypically fast pace. Tachibana also veers in part towards free jazz in places, but is grounded by the excellent drumming of Tetsuya Morimura, who holds things together just enough to keep a comforting groove". 2018 reissue of an album recorded in 1975 and released on private press.

Disc is close to NM.

• 1 Philosopher's Stone
• 2 Sacrament
• 3 La Fiesta
• 4 Dead Letter
• 5 Samba De Orfeu