Another fresh one put out via the Canadian Redshift Records imprint on October 25th, 2k24 is India Gailey's "Butterfly Lightning Shakes The Earth", a roughly 22 minutes spanning mini-album split into two main parts and their three respective subsections. Subsumed under the title of "Mountainsweeps" India Gailey explores a triple set of roughly one minute spanning solo miniatures for cello which, considering their overall un-length, provide an astounding amount of enchantment, yearning melodic expression and - especially in "Leaking Fauna And Stones" - dynamic range. Furthermore the subsequent main and title piece "Butterfly Lightning Shakes The Earth" sees the composer and performer in a live recorded concert situation along the Symphony Nova Scotia in a church in Halifax, providing timeless and meandering solos of ever shifting, solemn and almost otherworldly qualities in the opening piece "Sky" followed by ominous darkness and brooding, spine-tingling almost score'esque episodes leading into large scale panoramas reminiscent of high-end cinematography from decades ago found in "Golden" before "Joining" provides an overwhelming full orchestra climax, including thundering drums of war, intermingling layers upon layers of epic string works, fanfares and the whole nine yards which - without ignoring the Contemporary Classical x Modern Composition angle this release is coming from - just waits to be picked up to serve as a backdrop for a blockbuster movie or an open world video game world set in a fantasy or medieval context. Intredasting.
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