In our minds we were trying to do for a rock album what Peter Gabriel does to pop by infusing various cultures, percussion and exotic sounds into it.

The album includes a hidden song which features a spoken word performance by the folk legend Roy Harper, who is a friend of the band.

On the cover is an american copy of a statue by William Wetmore Story called Angel of Grief, evidently damaged by an earthquake in 1906 and then restored in 1908.

Buratti also created a series of short films which were projected as a backdrop to the band while performing across Canada and Australia.

"Sister Awake" is a standard three-piece rock composition acoustically based on 12-string guitar, sitar, sarod, harmonium and goblet drums.