It was recorded during 1994 and 1995 in San Francisco and Oakland, California, and was released in 2000 by the Black Saint label.

The album features Spearman in four different ensemble settings, with musicians including saxophonist Marco Eneidi, trumpeter Raphe Malik, guitarists J.R. Routhier and Dhyani Dharma Mas, pianist Paul Plimley, keyboardist John Baker, bassist Lisle Ellis, drummer Donald Robinson, percussionist Tim Witter, and vocalists Shafqat Ali Khan, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, and Don Paul.

"[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings called the album "more instructive than genuinely satisfying," noting that "Spearman's freedom seems more than a little forced... and there is less melodic control than on the later sessions which were to represent his premature last word.

"[5] Derk Richardson of the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate commented: "Spearman took the musical innovations and philosophical quests of Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane to heart and then poured out his own through his horn.

This is music of discipline and abandon, focused channeling and free-form energy, a logical extension of the jazz spirit beyond the constraints of a commercialized tradition.