I remember graphically when and where I bought this album and the affect it had on me.
I had returned to Saskatoon after a year in Waterloo, Ontario and a year back home. Musically I was open to everything. I was inhaling Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Beth Orton, Ani Difranco and a hundred other artists.
I had previously bought the compilation album "Hat's off to Roy Harper" mostly on a whim (I think I heard one track or the name associated with Led Zeppelin) and was blown away by how eclectic yet familiar, right at ease and distant at the same time that it made me feel.
So around 2001, I purchased this CD at Vinyl Exchange the only place I could find it in town. Music that was not mainstream was much tougher to come by back then. I believe I bought it partly because it was one of only two CDs offered of Roy Harper's (of his thirty or so total) and it was his newest offering.
By now, I was a Harper fan but my knowledge of his catalog was limited. Between the legally troubled Napster and Kazaa, it was difficult to find Roy Harper songs and certainly not this album.
Not Harper's best album, not his worst, it does have the ability to transport you away, if only for a while.