[1][2][3] Driscoll and Murphy worked together frequently during the 1970s and 1980s, but hadn't played as a duo in 13 years prior to the recording of this album.

[4] In a review for All About Jazz, Derek Taylor wrote: "Many of the tracks feel like recently drawn sketches and their relative nascency adds to sensation of two souls colluding in the moment without the need of a heavily premeditated plan... Their musical bonds rejoined, the possibility of future collaborations lies ripe for realizing.

"[5] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings noted that Driscoll "seems to be bursting with music," while Murphy is "a sympathetic partner."

They commented: "[Cecil] Tayloresque freedoms are contained within a careful sense of form: most of the tracks are completed inside five minutes, and run their course before rhetoric sets in.

"[6] One Final Note's David Dupont stated that the session "testifies to their strong musical connection and to the freshness engendered by renewing that musical tie after so many years," and remarked: "[Murphy] responds to Driscoll's sweeping atonal gestures with the right percussive architecture, helping to give them shape and dimension.