[1][2] The album combines music played on a variety of drums and other instruments, human voices singing and chanting, and electronic samples and digitally created sounds.

As such, it is as informed by the linguistic and technological aspects of Supralingua as it is by the earthy, rhythmic sojourns that filled Diga Rhythm Band.... Digital technology has advanced considerably in the eight years that have passed since Hart issued Supralingua, and in what could be viewed as a reflection of the world’s computerized infrastructure, Global Drum Project's contents are genetic hybrids in which pure, manmade sounds are united with those that have been sampled and enhanced with effects.

The distinct sounds created by Hart's RAMU provide the heartbeat and the personality for the album, about which he says, 'We had clear goals when Zakir and I started this, and we stayed with the vision.

"[9] In All About Jazz, Glenn Astarita wrote, "Pristinely recorded, the artists use some of the latest and greatest studio processing techniques to augment the inherent instrumental elements.

And within various movements Niladari Kumar's resonating sitar lines provide an echo-chamber type foreground to trickling, spiritualized vocals and mellow dreamscapes.