 The album's varied instrumentation included acoustic and electric guitars, cello, organ, shō, banjo, renaissance harp, rauschpfeife, crumhorn, cornamuse, hurdy-gurdy, recorders, piano, frame drums, darbuka, riq, and electronics.In 2010 Espvall released "Lapidary", an improvised collaboration with noise/drone figure Marcia Bassett.Writing for "The Wire" magazine, Keith Moliné compared it to the first Ash Ra Tempel album and dubbed it "an impressively powerful record".