(...) Improvising alone with no preconceptions still nakedly reveals the sum of a musician's mettle and skill. That's why John Voirol's album ich allein is so notable (...) the bravura flat-line pressure and blurred timbres he murmurs through his sax has its antecedent in early plainsong. Similarly the breathy tenor saxophone vibrato owes its origin to Ben Webster's phrasing (...) Some of the shorter tracks are fascinating as they show him dealing with a variety of extended techniques including tongue slaps, strident yelps, contrapuntal recd bites and circular breathing (...)The likelihood of this disc being appreciated by only "me alone" are very slim. Ken WaxmanThe moments 1 - 12 captured here on Voirol's Album allow us to experience the depth of their urgency. They fall precisely and then disappear in a flash. In between they unfold into the elementary artistic interpretation of the saxophonist (...) "I decided to free my mind and allow the moment to lead the way. Simply live the NOW. This conscious emptiness is the form, that his music flows into and fills.(...) This CD is a compilation of his vast experience. It explicitly attempts to seize the moment and interpret it for us into music. The attempt is clearly a resounding success (...) Pirmin Bossart