A drummer, producer and educator, Jim Roberts took years to complete this project that was inspired by peace activists, and though it’s heavy on percussion, there’s plenty of highly eclectic sounds to this very curious album that explores themes of nature and time.

A listen where each tune is an adventure in itself, while plenty are busy with multiple voices and an arsenal of instruments, songs like “Myth and Truth” are just Roberts and a synthesizer, and “Creators” brings backing vocals against a balafon for a sparse, quirky affair. Of the fuller songs, “Soul Power” is just that, and with funk and blues, too, and “Drum Language” is nearly 7 minutes of Roberts schooling us on different percussive noise makers.

Kind of prog-rock, sort of world music and entirely unusual, Roberts carves out a path entirely his own here, even offering a fantastic version of Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” where he nearly doubles the duration of the original with plenty of cultural experimentalism.

An enlightening effort with much complexity to absorb, it’s not an exhausting listen, but requires a willingness to absorb the abnormal.