Recorded in New York in 1971, held back by Flying Dutchman until 1973, Under Fire sits between the Montreux live album and Bolivia in Gato Barbieri's run for the label, the years when he was moving away from free jazz and toward the folk material of his continent.

The band is the one AllMusic calls stellar: Lonnie Liston Smith on piano and electric piano, John Abercrombie on guitar, Stanley Clarke on bass, Airto Moreira, James Mtume and Moulay Ali Hafid on percussion, and Roy Haynes on drums for the opening El Parana. Barbieri sings on one track.

Five pieces, all South American in origin. Two by Barbieri, one by Atahualpa Yupanqui (the ballad Yo le Canto a la Luna), one samba by Ismael Silva (Antonico) and Jorge Ben's Maria Domingas, at nine and a half minutes the longest. AllMusic gives it three stars and describes Barbieri in his early-1970s prime, floating in the background of El Parana before the tempo kicks in, and on the Yupanqui ballad sounding like a man trying to blow down walls. The same reviewer thinks it does not quite reach the intensity of Fenix or El Pampero, and wishes there had been outtakes.

Japanese CD edition from Solid's Flying Dutchman series.