“I love the CD. I have not heard contemporary music which is that much alive in a long long time. Struggling with the fact, especially as a performer, that many compositions nowadays seem to have lost any any sense for the up and down of tension which could be translated into a physical experience during the time of a performance, I feel that John Palmer's music comes out not only of an intellectual state, but has a very close connection to the body. This shows how he deals with form, rhythm, and especially sound. It is all very complex (good music has to be!) but it can all be felt. John Palmer's music shows so much capacity of liveliness that there will always be something to take over into one's personal life”.

Katharina Olivia Brand, pianist and Music Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, October 2003