[1][2][3] In a review for AllMusic, François Couture wrote that the album "was filled with amazing sounds that remain puzzling to this day...

The pair explores the very quiet and very loud, unveiling new sounds and textures... the tracks... form a succession of sharp contrasts, with each side of the original LP ending with a short drone piece that leaves the listener clueless.

"[4] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars, and stated: "these are riveting performances, intensely concentrated and very faithfully captured... the whole has admirable coherence and consistency.

"[5] Writing for Bells, Henry Kuntz commented: "the main focus of much of the music is harmonic.

There are obvious similarities to some types of electronic music... but while Parker's range is necessarily more limited than most electronic instruments, he is able to move about with greater ease and to impart to his work a greater urgency.