The producer and multi-instrumentalist Jochen Petersen (g, as, ts, fl, cl, voc) was the driving force behind a project which was joined in the early 1970s by the following musicians: the singer Lorenz Köhler, the guitarist and singer Manfred Schulz, the organist and pianist Wulf-Dieter Struntz, the bassist and singer Wolfgang Kracht as well as Bernd Schröder on drums. This short-lived Hamburg-based sextet called themselves Ikarus and played quite complex progressive rock, partly jazzy, partly symphonic. The versatile sound with English vocals featured the interplay of guitar and organ, while wind instruments such as saxophone, flute and clarinet added additional timbres to the four long compositions.

Recorded in February 1971 at the Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios in Hamburg with the assistance of sound engineer Wolfgang Klaus, they released their first and only album that same year on Petersen’s small label +plus+, for which he also served as producer. Like the previous albums on this low-budget label, Tomorrow's Gift and Wind, the third release was also a commercial failure, following which the band disbanded shortly afterwards. Today, the extremely rare LP on the +plus+ label is recognised as one of the first progressive jazz-rock albums from Germany and is accordingly highly sought after in collector circles.