“Demeter’s Danse” and “Sandansko Horo” open local sextet Mundi’s fourth album with widescreen vistas of rolling green hills and blues skies, possibly in New Zealand or Ireland, a helicopter cam sweeping across the frame as a horseman rides in. The melancholy “El Camino” floats over images of a funeral, but the title track settles in on a domestic scene of a happy family gathering in the kitchen during dinner prep. Even the cover of Dead Can Dance’s “Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book” sounds like the theme of a period UK film. With a front line of cello, violin, French horn, and composer/arranger Darrel Mayers’ worldbeat vision, the associations come organically, and Mundi pulses strikingly cinematic. Most soundtrack music stays in the background and Mayers’ sweet melodies are no different, but at least My House Is the Sky hosts a memorable film night.

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This article appears in January 23 • 2015.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.