Gillespie played guitars, synthesisers, keyboards, piano and mandolin on the album and also used several of the best-known Australian session musicians.
It was widely played on FM radio in Australia, reaching number 48 on the national album charts.
He returned to Australia in 1982 to record a follow-up album, Sweet Nothing, which reached number 33 and included the songs "River of Blood" and the prescient "Night and Day".
He married a local woman named Morium and, according to one former associate, "lived in a typical rural village ... with none of the trappings of western life.
"[2] After some years of declining health, and a few months after his wife's death, Gillespie died in hospital in Dhaka on 11 November 2021.