[2] The second oratorio, "Frantz Fanon 1952," uses excerpts from the Martinican poet's book Black Skin, White Masks.

[2] The fourth oratorio, "l'Archipel des Grands Chaos" ("The Archipelago of Great Chaos"), in two parts, uses texts by Martinican writer Edouard Glissant, who wrote: "The cry... is a fertile, rhythmical neurosis of silence – an aborted root – our voices sink into the earth, grounded without echo.

"[2] Regarding his playing on the album, Coursil, in a retrospective interview, stated: "I strongly like the noise of the world: cars, planes, people, stones falling down.

"[4] The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 4 stars, calling it "an intense and often very moving sequence."

They wrote: "If some of the rhetoric seems to belong to a past age, Coursil has kept faith with this philosophy and with a distinctive approach to brass improvisation for many decades.