JO QUAIL’S FESTIVAL COMMISSION TO AIR

The cellist will unveil The Cartographer at Roadburn in April, with album to follow.

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Prog Award-winning cellist Jo Quail will debut her latest composition, The Cartographer, at the envelope-busting Roadburn Festival, in Tilburg, Netherlands, on April 23, with an album to follow on May 6 via the By Norse label. The five-movement composition was specially commissioned by Roadburn owner Walter Hoeijmakers in 2019, and it’s taken two years to materialise because of the Covid pandemic. Quail played at the 2019 festival, backing MONO, Myrkur and At The Gates, but she and Hoeijmakers had discussed the idea the month before, at the World Metal Congress in London. “Walter wanted to explore the heaviness that’s prevalent in classical music from my perspective,” Quail tells Prog. “There was no time limit or boundaries, which is extremely liberating and a little bit frightening as a composer. If you’re…

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