Recorded during the Total Music Meeting 1979, which ran from October 31 through November 4. Several additional tunes performed were issued on Drive (FMP LP 0810). Other participants in the 1979 TMM included Martin Theurer (solo); Toshinori Kondo and Eugene Chadbourne (duo); the Peter Brötzmann Trio with Harry Miller and Günter Sommer; the Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky Quartet (Heinz Becker, Petrowsky, Klaus Koch, Günter Sommer); the Feminist Improvising Group (Maggie Nichols, Corinne Liensol, Lindsay Cooper, Sally Potter, Annemarie Roelofs, Georgie Born, Irène Schweizer); and the Berlin Jazz Workshop Orchestra (Horst Grabosch, Bernhard Mergner, Harald Dau, Friedemann Graef, Otto Jansen, Michel Mast, Andreas Boje, Thomas Wiedermann, Bernhard Arndt, Hans Schneider, Achim Krämer, Albrecht Riermeier).