[3] The liner notes describe the album as a rock music setting of a service intended to release a penitent from an oath "made under duress and in violation of his principles".

The actual Kol Nidre declaration, on which the first track is based, begins the order of service of Yom Kippur in the yearly cycle of Jewish religious observance.

Although credited to the Electric Prunes, the album is largely the work of composer and producer David Axelrod and a group of session musicians.

[4] With the group restructured, Axelrod composed all the material for the album, centering it around the Jewish prayer, Kol Nidre.

The album, titled Release of an Oath, used several session musicians including Howard Roberts, Carol Kaye, Don Randi and Earl Palmer, and saw Whetstone as the only band member to contribute to the recordings.