Limbic Bath, part 2

Why is "Little Lazy Daisy" a good decade ahead of its time? Can't deny the swooping pans of those processed, child-like vocal loops. But the true visionary touch is that smeared Spacemen 3-guitar, periodically threatening to dissolve into the greater tape-delay drift, but never quite succumbing. It keeps the track from being truly ambient, and yet has a humility to it that, say, Robert Fripp's guitar loops totally lack. All the same goes for "Sister Crazy Maisie", except the guitar is more fully dissolved even as it pulses more quickly, synths loom larger, and it sounds like something other than just children is trying to communicate--until darkness swallows everything like a sudden revelation of the deep below warm, surface waters...This stuff is from 1980, by the way..."Blue Guitars" is from four years earlier. Despite the title, I really didn't think it was guitars--he got them to sound so weightless and free--but it's been confirmed by Mr. Harrison himself, so "blue guitars" swelling and falling, as unlabored as unconscious breath...

Kevin Harrison--Little Lazy Daisy
Kevin Harrison--Sister Crazy Maisie
Kevin Harrison--Blue Guitars