Singh hired various collaborators, including guitarist Jon Klein,[5] with whom he had previously recorded on Siouxsie and the Banshees's single "Kiss Them for Me" and toured during the inaugural Lollapalooza festival.[6]Ryuichi Sakamoto played flute on the album and sent his parts via a computer with an email which was a first in the late 1990s.[4]Rakesh Chaurasia also performed flute.[5] Singh recruited an eight female singer choir for the song "Soni".[5]Guy Sigsworth played keyboards on the opening track "Traveller", and also on "Sutrix" and the title track of the album.[5] Vocalist Suchitra Pillai joined in for the song "Sutrix".[5]
In the NME, reviewer Christian Ward noted that Singh was "trying to cover the globe with his music", as a voice intones "The world is sound", at the start of the album.[11] The record is rooted in India with odes to Asian underground scene, dub rhythms and jazz. There is also a contrast between "geisha choirs and cut-up beats", along with plaintive orchestral arrangements.[11] Ward noted that "convulsive rhythms compete with sensuous strings to create a deep, dark atmosphere", concluding with this positive sentence, "There are still more sonic territories to explore, but on this evidence, it seems that Talvin Singh will get there first."[11]
^Dimery, Robert; Lydon, Michael (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN978-0-7893-2074-2.
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