[2] The album was recorded as part of a marathon week-long BYG session which also produced Murray's Homage to Africa as well as albums by artists such as Archie Shepp (Yasmina, a Black Woman, Poem for Malcolm, and Blasé), the Art Ensemble Of Chicago (Message to Our Folks and Reese and the Smooth Ones), Grachan Moncur III (New Africa), Alan Silva (Luna Surface), Dave Burrell (Echo), Andrew Cyrille (What About?

Archie Shepp and Lester Bowie retain their distinctive tonalities in the maelstrom that is set by Murray's frenetic flow, so relentlessly off-kilter it becomes the norm.

'Real' is a wonderful showcase for obscure tenor Kenneth Terroade blasting away amid the powerhouse rhythm section of Murray and bassist Malachi Favors.

And 'Red Cross' has an intro that is so immediately frenzied and yet seemingly coordinated among a bevy of horns, including Roscoe Mitchell and Arthur Jones, that it was wisely used as the lead track for the superb three-disc compilation of the BYG/Actuel catalogue, JazzActuel, back in 2000.

"[4] Writing for the Bleg web site, Kikanju Baku called the album "a stellar opus of vintage 60's inventive-extremism" and "glorious & ineffable, an extraordinary triumph," praising "Red Cross" as "a biblical show-down of indomitable mayhem & fraying fanaticism...