The album was produced by Leo Abrahams with additional production from Shahzad Ismaily, and it includes contributions from legendary free jazz drummer Milford Graves, as well as the saxophonist Sam Gendel, drummer Chris Vatalaro, multi-instrumentalist Ismaily, and Jimi Hendrix percussionist Juma Sultan on the song "Juma Mountain."

[2] After this, Amidon brought the recordings back to London, where he worked with producer Leo Abrahams to shape and grow new songs, using the Brooklyn jam session as a jumping off point.

Although all of the music was composed by Amidon, he did take inspiration lyrically from the Appalachian folk music that has been the focus of his previous records – for example, "Warren" draws on a 17th-century English poem as well as some phrases from an ancient Chinese poem, and "Blackbird" takes its lyrics from a traditional American song.

Amidon performed an album-release show at Brooklyn's Union Pool on 14 June, in a concert that included Milford Graves, Shahzad Ismaily and Sam Gendel, primary musicians from the album.

Uncut Magazine wrote that "Amidon's first album of original songs feels like a liberation… there's a loose, improvisational sensibility to these performances, enhanced by the extraordinary juxtaposition of his antique fiddle and mournfully keening voice against the skittering, freeform percussion of Milford Graves, a veteran of Albert Ayler's free-jazz collective, and Juma Sultan, who performed with Hendrix at Woodstock.