[1][2][3] AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek stated: "On the follow-up to the mind-blowing Spirits Known and Unknown, singer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer Leon Thomas decided to take a different track.

Far from the sparely orchestrated ensembles of the previous works, Thomas loaded this set with jazz luminaries ... Side one is the up-tempo jazz ride, as Thomas and company rip through a host of his own tunes ...

The real gem on the album is "Pharaoh's Tune (The Journey)," which comprises all of side two ...

[4] Critic Robert Christgau said "He has literally expanded the musical possibilities of the human voice.

I have to suspend my disbelief and recommend this record unreservedly to anyone with the slightest fondness for jazz".