{"id":2019121,"date":"2025-09-13T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2019121"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:18:18","slug":"genuinely-shocking-and-uninterested-in-the-post-rock-status-quo-jo-quails-notan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/genuinely-shocking-and-uninterested-in-the-post-rock-status-quo-jo-quails-notan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGenuinely shocking, and uninterested in the post-rock status quo\u201d: Jo Quail\u2019s Notan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Credit: AdderStone<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Few musicians have scaled the progressive rock battlements with such elegance as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/wrote-cartographer-ve-avoided-using-133308251.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jo Quail;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Jo Quail<\/a>. From multiple collaborations with post-rock and extreme metal bands \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/top-10-mono-songs-as-chosen-by-svalbards-serena-cherry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MONO;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MONO<\/a> to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/think-heavy-listen-song-1969-060300926.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Enslaved;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Enslaved<\/a> and beyond \u2013 to her own steady flow of extraordinary, genre-melting releases, the cellist is acknowledged as an essential player in the creative underground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Part of Quail\u2019s charm is that her music is pointedly alive: a never-ending work-in-progress that she returns to in performance, feeding off the tunes, tones and spontaneous ideas that appear to magically coalesce in her songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is particularly prominent on <em>Notan<\/em>, which features a brand-new version of <em>Rex<\/em>, a song originally found on her solo debut <em>From The Sea<\/em>. In its earlier form, <em>Rex<\/em> was dazzling but uncertain. Here, it\u2019s expanded and transformed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It uses its 10 minutes to highlight the intense compositional confidence and freedom she now enjoys as alien drones, scattershot noise and a chorus of brooding cello lines collide in hazy splendour, occasionally recalling the vexed classical experiments of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/scott-walker-a-musical-portrait\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scott Walker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Scott Walker<\/a>\u2019s later works along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rest of <em>Notan<\/em> is similarly uninterested in the post-rock status quo. The opening <em>Butterfly Dance<\/em> is genuinely shocking, with its scabrous riffs, disintegrating static and deep, underlying sense of unease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In contrast, <em>A Leaf, And Then A Key<\/em>, a riveting solo piece largely bereft of embellishment, is enigmatic and haunting. Deft cello work swirls and shape-shifts on the epic <em>Embrace<\/em>, which ebbs and flows like the breath of the planet\u2019s lungs, dancing around the edge of heaviness with sporadic drones, gorgeous synth interjections and distant tonal echoes conspiring to overwhelm and hypnotise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As with her commissioned work, <em>The Cartographer<\/em>, Quail\u2019s music frequently makes accidental and hazy reference to prog\u2019s dark, esoteric corners, with hints of freewheelers like Art Zoyd and Univers Zero hovering in the sonic background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both the new <em>Rex<\/em> and <em>Embrace<\/em> fit that description \u2013 but the sophistication of the arrangements has advanced so much since her debut that comparisons to other artists now seem redundant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The quiet, calming, piano-led <em>First Rain<\/em> may bear a passing resemblance to the likes of Nils Frahm and Max Richter, but in the context of all this febrile invention, it\u2019s a uniquely disarming moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It leads into <em>KingFisher<\/em>, the most accessible of these pieces. Quail\u2019s cello, multilayered and sumptuous, weaves a compelling, emotional tale of love, light and hope, as percussion and electronics crash along its musical shores. There\u2019s still no one else quite like her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/joquail.bandcamp.com\/album\/notan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Notan is on sale now.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em><strong>Notan<\/strong><\/em><strong> is on sale now.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. 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