Michael Harrison - In Flight (1987)

Ignore the slightly corny album cover - this album is sublime.  From the mid 80s, American pianist Michael Harrison pioneered the "harmonic piano", using just intonation.  The second and third tracks here are played in this arrangement, adding a whole new angle on the solo piano genre that had become seriously overcrowded by 1987.  The Swan Has Flown To The Mountain Lake in particular is a gorgeous piece, and the longest on the album.

Reverting to standard intonation elsewhere, Harrison proves himself a great melodic and harmonic player with a nimble, meditative touch.  The opening title track had appeared on a Windham Hill piano sampler in 1985 (which I'm sure I have on cassette somewhere), but rather than commit to the label Harrison stepped sideways to another New Age powerhouse, Fortuna, for this album.  It's well produced, with just enough reverb to work in favour of this beautiful, sometimes trancelike music.

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