"Long buried treasure from late '70s Lebanon: It's difficult (...) to altogether suppress outrage that this fine material has been so long unavailable. The more straightforwardly singer-songwriter cuts set Fakhr's husky, plaintive voice to intricately picked acoustic guitar, occasionally augmented by flute, piano or tambourine. Some (...) are exquisitely mournful. Others (...) are more upbeat, gently essaying a slight country-rock swagger ... With a band in tow, Fakhr gets funkier: "Had To Come Back Wet" includes busy bass that buoys a surging electric piano; "The Wizard" sounds like something left in error off an early '70s Byrds album. Little ties these recordings explicitly to the Lebanon of its time, give or take the coda of gunfire and air raid sirens on "Keep Going". Fakhr seems to have been too ambitious to be a mere protest singer or a chronicler of events. He did not see why Lebanon's circumstances should confine him - and, on the evidence of these wonderful songs, they didn't".
