Solo musical force Cargocastle has crafted a genuinely monumental artistic statement with the latest opus “Truth and Reconciliation”: an expansive, deeply emotional instrumental work that is at once as transcendent and as viscerally powerful as it is. It’s a riveting encapsulation of the therapeutic process of healing, sung in sound — the brainchild of Cory Wayne Dell of Altoona.
The mood seems invitingly melancholic, as does the wide screen atmospheric ambience from which it wept which begins ‘Truth and Reconciliation’. Despite the portentous introduction, however, the events to come will be a turbulent ride. Torrential crescendos of thunderous progressive metal riffing and pummelling rhythms crash through the sonic haze so quickly it takes mere moments before scrambling the sonic hellscape with a startling ferocity; an audacious stylistic juxtaposition that persists through the engaging five-minute run of the track, always dissipating into sublime calm . Dell’s compositional pen masters moves these tonal peaks and valleys like a seamstress stitching away, stringing through them the way turbulence strings through us, the troubled human psyche.
‘Truth and Reconciliation’ is at its heart Dell’s own fight to emerge from childhood trauma, and to persevere with the ongoing subjugation of its aftershock to this day. But the turmoil that inspired the song, a deeply internalized turmoil felt by any who have lived through life’s toughest truths only to find the strength to come to peace, is recognizably relatable. The spiritual tug of war writ large in Cargocastle’s ceaseless flurry of music, between portraying serene respite and utter chaos, is such a new artistic benchmark of compositional intricacy and raw emotive resonance around Truth and Reconciliation. Dell has in turn found a way to mimic the ephemeral highs and abyssal lows of human competence through an utterly unique sensibility that comprises both cathartically uplifting and brutally honest work. An obvious crowning testament to music’s perpetual power to resuscitate the individual and reveal them to self.
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