Butterfly Lightning Shakes the Earth is a new miniature album of her own compositions by cellist India Gailey. Back in the day we would probably have called this an EP as there is about 20 minutes of music in all.
The first piece; Mountainweeps, consists of three sixty second pieces for solo cello. This was written for Arlen Hlusko for Instagram performance when that platform limited videos to sixty seconds! It’s a sort of meditation on the impact of climate change on alpine environments. It’s quite complex for such a short piece and quite beguiling. Continue reading
Problematica is an upcoming solo CD with some interesting twists from Canadian cellist+ India Gailey. I can’t call it a solo cello CD because Gailey contributes vocals as well as some truly virtuosic cello playing and there’s lots of electronics and electronic processing involved. There are also some unusual presentation options. There are seven works by younger Canadian composers on the disk and recording engineer John DS Adams of Stonehouse Sound makes a major contribution.
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