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Larry's familiar continuous choral strands are infused with deeper shades, evident in the darker undertones of electric blue. Hyper-staccato notes of various registers pierce steel blue; the result is jarring yet oddly soothing. Not as strenuous, the repeating cycles of mendelssohn blue shine with a crystalline precision.
Fast patterns erupt throughout ice blue, breaking through in several mechanically rhythmic layers, achieving an almost drum-like effect at points.
Beautifully lush, choral blue provides a nice place rest, with soft, billowing layers of cool fluffiness to lounge in (no overtly "choral" sounds though). Closer to his "usual" style but developed even further and wonderfully so.
Coldly oscillating, for terry riley blue layers various soundsculptures atop each other, the lower tones almost growling.
Rapid-fire, but soft, notes pepper the silky strands which run through the heart of turquoise blue whereas lazarite blue is another short submergence into denser, less fragmented flows; brassy swells and higher shimmers meld and swirl briefly almost-symphonically.
In a side-by-side comparison, sapphire blue mixes super-cyclical sequences with longer musical bursts, geometrically precise variations intermingling with warmer, more rounded soundshapes.
Dating back to 1983, the most "techno-like" track is topaz blue; its crisp, speedy patterns acquire a tuneful bleepiness and a rhythm of their own making.
The bottom-end of the shimmering mercury blue pounds with a practically mechanical thudding. Conversely, dark choral blue is another free-floater... drifting, drifting without obstruction.
ruby blue (6:48) generates pseudo-beats in its muted patterns, laced with a faint, resonant belltone. Like a group of high-speed xylophones, digital blue quickly rings in progressively patterned bursts and movements. With a slurry harpsichord air about it, classic blue (1:10) emits warmer gusts in its short-lived duration. dark blue...
I suppose if he'd wanted to add some pop tunes, Larry could have covered "Jackie Blue" or "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"... sorry, I had to! :)
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