Sweet-hearted folk and gentle pop blend with teases of jazz and blues in this album, released almost a decade after Laura Nyro’s debut LP, with a string of others between the two.  Nyro’s voice comes off as the strongest part of the songs by far, with a range from clear soprano to deeper huskiness, and the rather generic mid-’70s soft rock instrumentation which surrounds her singing gives it little competition.  At the same time, the usual breathiness of her vocal style can leave some of the lyrics indistinct without attentive listening, so while the music is pleasant, it doesn’t go out of its way to grab attention (the use of koto in the closing title track notwithstanding).