As an album full of fusion legends, it is perhaps not surprising that there's a lot to absorb here. Of the 8 tracks on the 2 CD set, only one clocks in under 10 minutes, and four of them surpass 20 minutes with "Hymn to Andromeda" nearing 30. The sad side effect of this is it takes a combination of focused listening and, maybe more to the point, many many listens to start to digest what's going on here. The first time through, I feel like I missed a lot of what was going on, and it's only after at least five or six plays through that I've really started to catch some of the things that are going on as the musicians take their turns soloing and playing off of each other.