This record is not an ephemeral curiosity, however strange it may seem at first to have oriental instruments plays the music of a composer who personified and glorified the French genius Satie. The oriental instruments joined on occasion by some of the high priests of old-fashioned Europe such as the chalumeau, the cornett and the medieval harp, throw light on Satie's fine intuitive approach when he was in the process of creating his personal and utterly personal language. There is neither East nor West. In the end, this record, which hates outward show, moves across the land of pure music itself.
