The sub heading on the press release states in prosaic manner: “A collaboration of Moroccan Gnawa master Najib Sudani with New York composer/saxophonist Patrick Brennan and Chicago drummer/vocalist Nirankar Khalsa with Bujmaa & M’Barek Sudani.” Well, yes. But what that leaves out is that M’allim Najib Sudani from Essaouira is a powerful player of the guinbri (that’s the big, bassy Moroccan stringed instrument shaped like a cricket bat) from a centuries-long-line of traditional masters, Patrick Brennan is a mighty free-jazz wailer who is straight out of the Ornette Coleman school, and Nirankar Khalsa is a widely experienced jazz drummer who now lives in Spain, has worked with this issue’s cover stars Radio Tarifa and has a blues voice that’s nicely reminiscent of Olu Dara. It also doesn’t prepare you for this album being an absolute ear-pin-back blast, where deep rolling saharan grooves - lots of other percussionists, singers and an oud featured - are layered with frantic squiggly out-there horn blowing that’s just right. One for cranking up the volume, running around the house and punching the air shouting “Yes!” to. Well, it often gets wiggy here in soggy Harringay...

Ian Anderson ---- fROOTS, no 216 - June 2001, page 57