[1][2][3] In a review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos wrote: "While the string players swim around the rhythms of Kapp, Barbieri dives right in with no fear of the outcome, allowing the others to stretch into harmonic and sonic arenas of their own choosing.

This democratic approach enhances the music without need for time signatures... this unique recording... must be considered one of [Barbieri's] prime -- if not primal -- early works.

"[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated: "To anyone who only knows the Latin Barbieri... this early disc... will come as a complete shock... the... album is howlingly intense and unremitting.

"[6] Raul d'Gama Rose of All About Jazz commented: "Gato Barbieri winds up and uncorks a meandering apocalyptic shout that begins with a growling, sinewy tenor and often returns there via a continuous spiral of bell-like primal screeches.

"[4] The Guardian's John Fordham called the album "a unique document," and stated that it finds Barbieri "unleashing fearsome multiphonic tenor-sax blasts...