“In the dark, a man [John Palmer] lights three candles at the synthesizer and inquires through suspended sounds into the activities of nocturnal apparitions... [Spirits] ... Palmer's works Spirits and Phonai step through the hyper-regions of a spiritual meta-world: his subtle evocations, infatuated with seventh- and semitones glissandoes, skillfully avoid sliding into too easy musical propositions thanks to an individual perspective which keeps the events terse, compelling and strongly original”.

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, 10 June 1997