LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

"1968 album for the combo led by Dutch free improviser Pierre Courbois (and featuring Peter Van De Locht, Boy Raaymakers, Ferdy Rikkers and Erwin Somer). Before getting together his Free Music Quintet he had already played with Johhny Griffin, Kenny Clarke, Bud Powell, John Coltrane and also worked with Gunter Hampel, Lol Coxhill and Mal Waldron. - I give the album five stars and no stars, for virtually no reason and every reason... and why, beacause the five Dutch players play well, play free, play beautiful, but I will likely never play this album again, or need to... the music they play moves me: in my ears, in my mind, in my corpus - it is good to hear but not always. One time I play it, it is greatest energy, it is communion: an experience... another time I play it, it is noise, it is inconsequential: a bore..." (from the original Downbeat review)