The title refers to the Atacama Desert on the Pacific coast of South America. Sadly, in the first edition of the album, the name Acatama was used by mistake. Source: Wikipedia English: The Atacama Experience Jean-Luc Ponty has dabbled in commercialized music off the beaten path of jazz for quite a number of years, a dilution of the straight-ahead and fusion-oriented music that made him an instantly recognized post-Stéphane Grappelli performer. The Acatama Experience is apparently a good one for Ponty, as his "new" style harks back to his emergence in the mid-'70s. It's a back-to-basics approach, paring down the Read more on Last.fm.
