condition (record/cover): NM / NM - Grey cover, black labels. Jean Guillou built his legend at the organ of Saint-Eustache in Paris, an instrument that under his hands became orchestra, proto-synthesizer, machine for producing universes. Visions Cosmiques on Philips hides no ambition in its title: cosmic visions, nothing less.

Guillou treated the organ as Iannis Xenakis treated the orchestra: sonic mass to be sculpted architecturally. The "cosmic visions" aren't illustrations but structures, sound cathedrals evoking interstellar space without representing it. The disc captures recordings that Saint-Eustache's walls made possible: without that reverberation, without those bass frequencies that shake the sternum, the music would be something else entirely. Philips's engineering rises to the challenge, preserving both thunder and whisper.