Charting The Singular

When experimental cellist Jo Quail was commissioned to create a long-form piece of music to showcase at one of Europe’s best-known underground music festivals, she let her imagination run riot. The Cartographer finds her diving into even proggier waters with an artful blending of wild ideas. Prog catches up with the British musician to find out more and discover her ambitious plans for the future.

Dom Lawson

“One of the identifying aspects of prog music is that you have the opportunity to develop within a long-form structure, and that interests me greatly.” “The night cleaves, revealing shape beyond the road’s unboundaried form, While restless winds of craft and lore coil in transient song, The korax dives the triple seas and hunts the silence of unbroken thought. Inside the gyre time waits with slow stone flame. Draw close to me.” Well established as prog’s (and indeed Prog’s) favourite cellist, Jo Quail has been producing extraordinary music that gleefully defies categorisation for a number of years now. Both as a perpetually ingenious solo artist and as a textural counterpoint to everyone from neofolk icons Wardruna and Japanese post-rock legends MONO to Swedish death metallers At The Gates, she’s steadily…

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