Give Me Take You

I've been waiting a long time for these to become available: Les Yeux Fermes and Lifespan, two 1970's soundtracks by Terry Riley on Riley's new label, Elision Fields, which seems to be run by his management. These soundtracks are among the best of Riley's work. They contain deep space music, sensitive timbres, and extraordinarily lush melodic sensitivity that sometimes even carries a ragtime like buoyancy. Just enough of personality sticks out in these recordings, too, so that you can't really place them in any one genre for it's importance. It's Terry Riley's music. I can't recommend picking up this CD highly enough. Reissue of the year thus far for me.