{"title":"Jo Quail @sw@if@band-music-22018@","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"jo-quail-the-cartographer-cd-digipak","title":"Jo Quail - The Cartographer - CD DIGIPAK","description":"\u003cp\u003eInternationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist from London Jo Quail announces her new studio album “The Cartographer”, set for release on May 6th!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Cartographer” is a piece commissioned by the renowned Roadburn Festival, who will host its premiere performance in April 2022 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, the Netherlands! The project, initially planned for 2020, explores the space where classical instrumentation and contemporary heavy music intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Jo Quail’s words: “What makes music heavy? In my opinion, as an artist and composer straddling both classical and contemporary genres the concept of heaviness in music is experienced via the intention of the composer, and then the delivery of the performance. Arguably heaviness is an emotional concept, reaching far beyond the confines of volume, speed and instrumentation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDue to delays in the live premiere of the commissioned project, Jo was afforded the opportunity to record “The Cartographer” with the assistance of the PRS ‘Women Make Music Award’. “The Cartographer” was recorded in Holland at Groenland Studios with the full ensemble of contributing musicians, and will be released as a studio album on May 6th this year! An incredible landmark, but one from which there is so much more coming into view for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen composing the piece, Jo Quail decided almost immediately to write for trombones, specifically eight members of the acclaimed Dutch ensemble The New Trombone Collective. The first thing she envisaged was the juxtaposition of a solo violin accompanied by a huge wave of brass, and the form of “The Cartographer” emerged from this sound world. She scored for extensive orchestral percussion (including the largest TamTam she could get hold of!) and included herself on electric cello with her usual set up incorporating live looping, a pianist, and two vocalists, both parts written with and specifically for these individual singers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Cartographer” is a piece composed of prose of five phrases, each phrase containing an intention for the different movements. Each of these musical phrases is pared through the artist’s pitch system and created the musical motif on which the whole work is based.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJo Quail comments: “The music I write tends to evolve even after I’ve recorded and released it and having, unexpectedly, had the extra time to spend with The Cartographer has allowed me to deepen my connection to it. It has grown in a way that means whilst the dots on the page remain unchanged, it’s somehow not quite the same piece I would have presented in 2020 but it tells the same story – I hope, better!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI tend to have a very particular structure in mind when I begin writing, and this was especially true for “The Cartographer” – I can then work more intuitively to paint the narrative within that framework. There is always a narrative or story that I’m telling, and those listening will create their own story from what they hear – I love that.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53422337622359,"sku":"P-119891-","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6500\/8471\/files\/Jo-Quail-The-Cartographer-CD-DIGIPAK-119891-1-1646304494.jpg?v=1778142667"},{"product_id":"jo-quail-the-cartographer-double-lp-gatefold","title":"Jo Quail - The Cartographer - DOUBLE LP GATEFOLD","description":"\u003cp\u003eSide A : Movement 1\u003cbr\u003eSide B :  Movement 2 \/  Movement 3\u003cbr\u003eSide C : Movement 4\u003cbr\u003eSide D : Movement 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist from London Jo Quail announces her new studio album “The Cartographer”, set for release on May 6th!\u003cbr\u003e“The Cartographer” is a piece commissioned by the renowned Roadburn Festival, who will host its premiere performance in April 2022 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, the Netherlands! The project, initially planned for 2020, explores the space where classical instrumentation and contemporary heavy music intersect.\u003cbr\u003eIn Jo Quail’s words: “What makes music heavy? In my opinion, as an artist and composer straddling both classical and contemporary genres the concept of heaviness in music is experienced via the intention of the composer, and then the delivery of the performance. Arguably heaviness is an emotional concept, reaching far beyond the confines of volume, speed and instrumentation.”\u003cbr\u003eDue to delays in the live premiere of the commissioned project, Jo was afforded the opportunity to record “The Cartographer” with the assistance of the PRS ‘Women Make Music Award’. “The Cartographer” was recorded in Holland at Groenland Studios with the full ensemble of contributing musicians, and will be released as a studio album on May 6th this year! An incredible landmark, but one from which there is so much more coming into view for the future.\u003cbr\u003eWhen composing the piece, Jo Quail decided almost immediately to write for trombones, specifically eight members of the acclaimed Dutch ensemble The New Trombone Collective. The first thing she envisaged was the juxtaposition of a solo violin accompanied by a huge wave of brass, and the form of “The Cartographer” emerged from this sound world. She scored for extensive orchestral percussion (including the largest TamTam she could get hold of!) and included herself on electric cello with her usual set up incorporating live looping, a pianist, and two vocalists, both parts written with and specifically for these individual singers.\u003cbr\u003e“The Cartographer” is a piece composed of prose of five phrases, each phrase containing an intention for the different movements. Each of these musical phrases is pared through the artist’s pitch system and created the musical motif on which the whole work is based.\u003cbr\u003eJo Quail comments: “The music I write tends to evolve even after I’ve recorded and released it and having, unexpectedly, had the extra time to spend with The Cartographer has allowed me to deepen my connection to it. It has grown in a way that means whilst the dots on the page remain unchanged, it’s somehow not quite the same piece I would have presented in 2020 but it tells the same story – I hope, better!\u003cbr\u003eI tend to have a very particular structure in mind when I begin writing, and this was especially true for “The Cartographer” – I can then work more intuitively to paint the narrative within that framework. 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The acclaimed, award-winning composer and cellist composed the two pieces with the artists Maria Franz (Heilung) and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasariin mind and theirbreath-takingvoices are a key element on the respective EP’s. Franz taking the centre stage on ‘Invocation’ and Fornasari on ‘Supplication’. Dare to take on Quail’s wild, boundless soundscapes, enriched by two of the most powerful voices in contemporary music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJo Quail initiated the creation of both EP's during a very specific period,when she returned from touring in Australia in March 2020 to a state of lockdown, and the immediate months that followed where most of the world was in a kind of paralysis. She comments:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For me personally Invocation and Supplication are two ‘three-song cycles’ that are perspectives of the same form. Individually Invocation and Supplication each describe three aspects of an archetype; both together they form an entire image.This image is, to me, earthy, primal and spiritual in the widest sense, are common themes I draw upon in all the music I write. Invocation and Supplication were composed simultaneously, each somehow part of the other. I’ve known Maria Franz (Heilung) and Lef (Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari) for some years, and I’d often dreamed to create wild landscapes for both these artists, being  continuously inspired by their individual breathtaking talents. As I began to write these works in earnest I heard only their voices.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe physical edition comes as a deluxe Orange Crush w\/ black marble and Sea Blue w\/ Black marble 12” vinyl editions, gathered in a slipcase with varnish and matt effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvocation :\u003cbr\u003e1. Macha (07:14)\u003cbr\u003e2. Willow of All (05.04)\u003cbr\u003e3. 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