It was recorded at Sparrow Sound Design and North Shore Studios in Chicago, Illinois.

An initial version, with material recorded in September 1985, was released on cassette later that year by AECO Records, a label founded by the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

On the album, Moye is joined by multi-instrumentalist Ari Brown, vocalist Luba Raashiek, and nearly a dozen additional musicians.

[1][2][3][4] In a review for JazzTimes, Willard Jenkins described the album as "an Afro-centric outing laden with percussion and the AACM sense of music with a theatrical bent that serves the dual purpose of exploration and entertainment," and wrote: "At the helm Moye's percussive colors, from djembe to traps, are lush and penetrating and the cast is a well-integrated bunch.

"[6] Jeff Potter of Modern Drummer stated: "From ancient to future, primal to complex, Moye's music retains a positive, on-the-spot urgency with all the right roots grit intact.