The
AllMusic review awarded the album 3 stars. In a review for
All About Jazz, John Eyles wrote: "
Organic Music Society will probably appeal most to Don Cherry devotees and completists. There is just enough good Cherry here to satisfy the faithful, even though it is rather diluted... The lasting message that the album leaves is that Cherry was at his very best when playing jazz trumpet rather than flirting with mystic chanting and philosophy." Giovanni Russonello, writing for
Jazz Times, stated that, in relation to his previous albums, "
Organic Music Society... gives us a fuller picture of Cherry as ensemble leader, spiritualist and cultural synthesizer. He's at the height of his powers here." A reviewer for
Head Heritage remarked: "Ragged, but sublimely beautiful, endearingly simple and, at times, frustratingly complex, melding the ancient and the modern – all the essential paradoxes of the human condition are engaged at length." Matthew Fiander of
PopMatters wrote: "
Organic Music Society is as far out there as Cherry ever got... It both shows the extent to which he spread out here... and the reach of his influence." However, he concluded: "There's a lot to admire about
Organic Music Society... but that doesn't mean you'll know what to make of it all." ==Track listing==