On the album, Coltrane appears on piano, organ, harp, timpani, and percussion, and is joined by bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Ben Riley, and a string ensemble, which she conducts.

[3][4] In the album liner notes, Coltrane stated that she received a "visitation" from Stravinsky, with whom she discussed music, and who presented her with "a small glass vial containing a clear, colorless liquid."

"[5][6] According to producer Ed Michel, Coltrane worked with the string players, who were top-rank classically-trained studio musicians, and "opened [them] up... so they could do absolutely astonishing things."

[8][9] In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "it was obvious from the beginning that [Coltrane] was seeking to incorporate Indian classical music's drone center into her work, and was literally obsessed with the timbral, chromatic, and harmonic possibilities of strings.

"[12] The Vinyl District's Joseph Neff called the album "a record of striking dimension," and stated that it is distinguished by "Coltrane's comfort and level of investment in exploring arranged strings as a vessel for spiritual transcendence.