Jo Quail releases new track ‘Mandrel Cantus’

Jo Quail has released a brand new song!

The new song, titled Madrel Cantus, is taken from the virtuoso cellist’s upcoming new album Exsolve which is scheduled to be released in November.

The upcoming record was recorded with Chris Fielding at Skyhammer Studios (ELECTRIC WIZARD, PRIMORDIAL, WITCHSORROW, CONAN) and the initial ideas for the record were formed following an invitation to perform at the Arp Museum in Bonn, to celebrate the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture for a Modern World exhibition (previously at the Tate Modern).

Speaking about the track, Jo Quail says, “Mandrel Cantus is a track that’s been evolving over a long period of time, and continues to morph each time I perform it live. I started with abstract percussion, in fact I built a whole new armoury of sounds for this track, and these themselves helped inform the direction of the music as I continue/ed to work on it.

It’s impossible to talk about your own music without sounding pretentious… I wanted to make a pathway through the percussive labyrinth that resolves and opens powerfully in a physical sense, but dissolves to leave just the spiritual essence of the whole music with the modal C cantus at the end. I’m doing things I’ve never done before in terms of how my loop station is set up, and the sound modelling too, and as such I’m really excited every time I play this track, though it’s a potential minefield to navigate!”

Listen to a Mandrel Cantus (radio edit) here: 

Alongside the release of the new song, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album. Both of which are available to view below:

Track List: 

1) Forge – Of Two Forms
2) Mandrel Cantus
3) Causleen’s Wheel

Exsolve is set for release on November 2nd via self-release.

For more information on Jo Quail like her official page on Facebook.