Däfos

It was later reissued by Rykodisc as part of their series titled "The World", and is included in the Smithsonian Folkways Mickey Hart Collection.

The reissue includes a bonus track that was recorded in 1984 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California.

[1][2][3][4][5] The album is percussion-oriented, and presents a musical ethnography of a fictional country called Däfos.

"[6] In a review for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer called the album "a collection of ambient soundscapes adorned by an array of indigenous hand and mallet-struck percussion," and noted that it "garnered substantial notice from audiophiles" upon its release.

[1] Author Oliver Trager described the album as "an established audiophile classic" thanks to its "thrilling, nearly overpowering sonics.