It was recorded on July 22, 1996, at The Empty Bottle in Chicago, and was released in 1999 by Okka Disk as a limited-edition CD.

"[5] In a review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne wrote: "Excellent, energetic solos (and interplay) are heard from every musician.

"[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings called the album "an hour of top music," and stated: "Brötz sounds both passionate and cheery... Drake isn't a muscleman drummer, but the leader has had so many of those behind him over the years that Hamid's more tractable, polymorphous sound is a source of refreshment: there's nothing wanting.

"[6] Derek Taylor of One Final Note commented: "Uncapped for your pleasure, the heady aromas of Brötzmann's horns ferment with bass and trap set in a combination so beguiling it may prove difficult to resist rapturous inebriation at their hands.

Like the fine vodka that is one of the German's few admitted passions this performance packs a pungent bite and deserves to be sipped and savored at length.