The album mixes New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti, and the Sahel.

For Sanchez and Mouquet, the most important purpose of the album was to express their own fascination with the Efe people, and open the world's ears to the exquisite sound of a quickly vanishing culture.

The album currently remains out of print, due to copyright and attribution disputes over the sampling of music from indigenous peoples.

[5] In 2005 Joni Mitchell included two tracks from this album, "Night Bird" and "The First Twilight", as related to her musical development on her Artist's Choice CD.

All songs by Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez, except where indicated: On some pressings of the album, an extended version of "The Second Twilight" appears.