The sounds on this disc are nearly identical to what you hear on La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano. Harrison was a student of Young's and obviously learned his techniques well. It's good that there is now a readily available document of this sound, which hasn't been so for at least a decade or more.
This disc is unique in it's own way. It is, supposedly, one long piece, but it's made up of many shorter tracks and to me is more like a suite of short pieces than one continuous work. And while the tuning is identical to Young's, the style is obviously different. Harrison, in addition to working with smaller segments of time, also plays at a faster pace and seems to have a goal tertiary to Young's. Young would in most interpretations probably be seen as simply and elegantly aiming to present his tuning system. He did a fine job of it, too, despite many, myself included, not liking the overall personality of his work and professional life. Harrison, on the other hand, seems intent on using the tuning system to conjure music, and not even very difficult music like one might expect. The sentiment of his music is endearingly sweet and straightforward, and all that's a little confounding for me when I've come into it expecting a hypnotic powerhouse of a record. Hypnotic and powerful it is not, when compared to the epic stature of The Well-Tuned Piano, but the quality of the sound on this disc is certainly enchanting enough on its own terms to warrant a share of interest.
