Released in March 2002, the album includes performances by Horacio "El Negro" Hernández, Robby Ameen, and Milton Cardona.

The Guardian reviewed the album, giving it five stars and saying, "The album cleverly reinvents several perennially engaging musics: noir atmospherics; Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban groove fundamentals; Bitches Brew-era space music; Latin boogaloo.

The film stars Benjamin Bratt, who voices some atmospheric scene-setting sections of the album; these are used sparingly enough so as not to intrude, but to enhance the air of sleaze and menace.

In a large ensemble cast of musicians, key performances come from pianist Edsel Gomez, bass guitarist Fernandez Saunders and particularly trumpeter Jerry Gonzalez.

"[2] Jim Trageser reviewed the album for the Summer 2004 issue of Turbula, saying, "And so the music is New York – smart and sophisticated and dark and seedy and ebullient and tired and hard and sentimental, all at the same time.