Practically every track demonstrates some subtle meeting of the sinewy and the sophisticated... Hawkins appears to have the skills he needs to play any sort of improvised music from standards to on-the-spot creativity.

"[5] Writer Richard Williams called the album "an exceptional document," and stated: "It's a record on which Hawkins reminds his listeners that the piano, too, is a percussion instrument.

"[7] Writing for Point of Departure, Ed Hazell called the musicians "kindred spirits despite the wide difference in their ages," and remarked: "Their joyful duo album displays a rapport that is at times almost telepathic.

"[8] In an article for Cadence, Jason Bivins wrote: "Alongside the fabulous young pianist Alexander Hawkins, Moholo-Moholo generates music of marvelously contained energy, often sounding spindly and intervallic but with a real gravity that comes as much from the space between notes as from any thunder... what makes the pianist even more arresting than other players who can work in similar areas is his unflinching lyricism, a truly compelling dimension of his work...

They audibly delight in each other's playing, diving with real zeal into the more boisterous moments but equally engaged in the sparse silent passages.