McLaughlin stated that "Shakti is very much a 'live' band", which means that recording a studio album together has been an issue due to the members living "on different continents".

The album came about after McLaughlin called the members in 2021 and "persuad[ed] them to use today's recording technology to realise it".

Jurek concluded that "the ensuing decades of individual and collective music experiences – as well as decades-old creative and personal connections between McLaughlin, Hussain, and Mahadevan – result in extraordinary musical communication that transcends traditions, concepts, and formal approaches, making Shakti a band for the ages".

[4] Ian Patterson of All About Jazz described the album as "splendid stuff", calling it "instantly recognisable as Shakti, yet with fresh sounds, as one might hope and expect from such a pioneering band—the band that, as many would have it, invented World Music before the term was born".

Patterson remarked that there is no one highlight as "they unfold from first note to last, the players flowing in and out in a seamless choreography which is, by turns, joyous, thrilling and moving".