The Light of Corona is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded during the "Total Music Meeting" at the "Podewil", the headquarters of the Kulturprojekte Berlin non-profit organisation, on November 3, 1996, and released in 2003 on the FMP label.
[1] In the album liner notes, Volker Spicker wrote: "This concert reorganised your own consciousness, took you to spheres previously unknown, took unexpected turns, concentrating on the essential things, on the living, showed the meaning of being free and creative, of being alive.
"[2] In his AllMusic review, François Couture wrote: "The first piece... begins very quietly, the musicians coming on stage and starting to play one at a time, all improvising poetry and vocalizing along the way.
It ends in a similar fashion, helping the listener to come down from his or her cloud after a stunning number in which Taylor plays the roles of both inducer and controller of chaos.
The musicians stretch the concept of synergy to new lengths and the whole piece finds its momentum in the dichotomy between chaos and order, between individual ideas and collective coherence.