"Although the album's roots are in traditional Tunisian templates, rhythms, and scales, the eight often extensive tracks (all named after major rivers, which is only appropriate - this music really does flow) glide effortlessly between remote corners of the musical world, with minimalist modern classical, ambient soundscapes, electronica, and even free jazz adding to the compelling list of primary ingredients. They also offer startling yet seamless mood swings: some tracks emerge with unhurried, graceful calm, only to become gradually submerged in tension and decibels. Carried by strings, violin, bouzouki and keyboards, the subtly epic shapeshifting likes of "Envol de Mekong" (which starts off disarmingly pretty and ends up in an outbreak of grizzly noise not that far removed from drone lords ala Sunn O))) are built on instantly memorable melodies, with subtle mutations of the natural sound of the instruments generated by Dreijer's sound design adding a layer of ultra-modernity, edge and unpredictability to the proceedings".