Charting The Singular
“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.”
ell established as prog’s (and indeed ’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 built a. A single, 48-minute piece comprising five distinct movements, it was written in response to a commission from Tilburg’s annual Roadburn Festival and was premièred in its exclusive entirety at this year’s event. Fortunately for those without a Roadburn ticket, a studio version of has just been released, and it’s an album that takes Quail ever further into prog territory.
