With nine original works, it was recorded on June 18, 1995, at the Workshop Freie Musik held at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and was released in 1997 by the FMP label.

[1][2] In a review for AllMusic, John Bush wrote that Rivers "finds a distinctive voice on each instrument" and noted that "his tenor style is hard-driving, while the soprano moments, and his remarkably clean flute playing, are atmospheric and free-flying".

[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a full 4 stars, and wrote, "These unaccompanied essays... are magnificently crafted and thoroughly imbued with the creator's personality... this is the most thoroughly individual thing he has done for many years, a magnificent testament to his creative range, his generosity of spirit and his great, great intelligence.

"[3] Steve Vickery of Coda commented, "Rivers alternates horns... with piano and voice... never running out of ideas or steam.

"[4] The Chicago Reader's Peter Margasak wrote that the album "brilliantly reveals [Rivers's] wide scope on a variety of instruments", and wrote, "....in a fully improvised setting Rivers shifts seamlessly between rhapsodic ballads, fiery postbop, and intense extended technique.