The music includes originals, traditional pieces, and tunes composed by McGregor's colleagues Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana.

[1][2][3][4] In a review for Financial Times, Mike Hobart stated that the album "confirms what a fine technician and improviser" McGregor was, and noted that the first set "juxtaposes warm-hearted hymns with thoughtful ballads and rampaging swirls with lilting township riffs.

"[6] Point of Departure's John Litweiler commented: "The complex rhythms and hymn harmonies of South African kwela music dance through much of this disc... McGregor is a decorator, an arranger, an inventor of variations, and only secondarily an improviser...

"[9] The editors of The New York City Jazz Record selected the album as one of 2012's best reissues, and Ken Waxman remarked: "Practically stream-of-consciousness playing... McGregor's well-modulated solid and swinging lines easily reflect his background.

When he doesn't sound as if he's playing for a footstomping religious service or a simple dance, his tremolo muscularity can be linked to the sounds of Herbie Nichols, McCoy Tyner, or, when he breaks into free time contrasting dynamics, early Cecil Taylor.