 In his review for Allmusic, Dave Shim said "Combining Reijseger’s formidable skills in the grey regions between jazz, improvised, and chamber music, with the mesmerizing vocal talents of Senegalese singer Mola Sylla and Sardinian vocal choir Voches de Sardinna, the album covers an extraordinarily wide range of moods and textures, from vaguely liturgical atmospheres to threatening drones to delicate percussive vignettes--eliciting a mysterious aura contemplative of planet Earth’s hereafter".On AllAboutJazz C. Michael Bailey rated the album five stars and observed ""Requiem for a Dying Planet" is hypnotic in its beauty and stunning in its scope.Ernst Reijseger meets Herzog as an equal on the creative field, and together they produce a super-composition.