Cecil Taylor, Garden Part 1 (CD)

By the early 80s, Cecil Taylor's work had moved away from the incessant energy of his 70s work (I'm a big fan of Akisakila) and had begun to include more subtlety. Garden is a live solo recording from 1981—it was a double LP on hatHut in '83 and then this pair of CDs dates from 1990. It credits a digital recording on something called a Sanyo PCM, which I'm assuming was a competitor to Sony DASH or the Mitsubishi 880? The sound quality is fine, lacking either the air of a modern digital recording or the graininess I'd have feared from such a unit. Taylor's playing on the disc is in strong form. Short liner notes by Art Lange are followed by a very long and impenetrable text by Taylor.