"As you would probably expect, pianist Fred Hersch's first solo album for ECM (...) is a quiet triumph. Following his recent duo recording for the label with trumpeter Enrico Rava, 'The Song is You', and using the same Lugano studio and piano, Hersch has chosen a repertoire of often experimental, extempore-sounding originals mixed with a few very carefully chosen standards ... The overall mood - and there is a mood, corresponding to what Hersch called the "nocturnal" atmosphere of the album - is one of gentle and delicate yet free and spontaneous probing of the piano's potential".