[3] In his AllMusic review, Brandon Burke awarded the album 3 stars, stating "this is a very free record that could easily turn off a listener not yet sold on the 1969 avant-garde jazz scene...

"[4] Dave Furgess commented: "This album really has hair on it" and noted that Silva "put together this mammoth ensemble with the intention of updating John Coltrane's Om and Ascension and Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz.

"[6] Britt Robson, in an article for Red Bull Music Academy, wrote: "Silva says the strategy here is keyed off of Coltrane's Ascension in terms of collective improvisation, except that 'the solo is not an element in the piece: we are all going to play all the time'...

"[2] Thurston Moore, in his "Top Ten From The Free Jazz Underground" list, first published in 1995 in the second issue of the defunct Grand Royal Magazine, praised Dave Burrell's album Echo, writing "from the first groove it sounds like an acoustic tidal wave exploding into shards of dynamite", then concluded: "If you can locate Alan Silva's Lunar Surface [sic] LP... you'll find a world even that much more OUT.

"[7] A review on the Tiliqua Records website states: "This one is a free jazz blast... it will wrap your ears around your head in pure delight... Luna Surface is an extreme sonic experiment and a weird hell broth of high-tension music triggering multiple high voltage reactions...

Probably one of the all-time most arresting listening experiences of free jazz ever to be put down on wax, players act out as engaged in trench warfare, leaping into violent fits of madness and blowing out deep subterranean apocalyptic waves of sound that constantly hurtle in and out of focus.