On the album, Coltrane is heard on harp and piano, and is joined by bassist Ron Carter and drummer Rashied Ali.

"[7] Regarding the pieces featuring harp, Chris M. Slawecki of All About Jazz wrote that they "pivot their internal (meditative) and external (exploratory) faces upon the fulcrum of Carter's repetitive, throbbing bass, even though their swirling movements and rhythms, especially from Coltrane's harp, sound static, nearly floating."

[8] AAJ's Chris May called the recording a "beautiful, sumptuous album," and wrote that, for the most part, it "suggests rather than delivers astral jazz," noting that "the root of the music is straight-ahead.

"[4] Author Max Brzezinski singled out "Turiya" for praise, and stated that it "produces mesmeric effects."

He commented: "It suspends the listener in a cloud of lush textures, as each instrumentalist begins pursuing their own slow tempos, improvising until they find a shared sense of time... 'Turiya' doesn't develop in the traditional sense so much as it experiments with endless variations on a theme.