Jo Quail shares further insight to The Cartographer
With just over a week to go until Roadburn 2022 kicks off – we can still hardly believe it ourselves – we’re thrilled to bring you another peek behind the scenes of the making of The Cartographer by acclaimed cellist Jo Quail.
Originally commissioned by Roadburn way back in 2019, this original composition was due to make its debut at Roadburn the following year… but that just was not to be (for obvious reasons). The Cartographer was clearly a labour of love from the word go, with Jo throwing her all into creating something truly special and unique. The delay to the live performance gave Jo the ability to record the piece in a studio – which will soon see its release via By Norse).
The commissioned projects have been a cornerstone of Roadburn for the past few editions and we’re delighted that Jo is one of the artists continuing the tradition in 2022. We strongly urge you to attend if the space between classical and contemporary music piques your interest; there are few crafting such exquisitely emotive pieces of music in the way that Jo does.
Jo Quail will perform The Cartographer at Roadburn 2022 – on the main stage on Saturday 23 April at 15.20
The Roadburn 2022 timetables are here!
Roadburn announces side programme
As is tradition, we have a side programme of events which reflects certain elements of what’s going on in the main musical programme. We’re honoured to have these artists and industry folk participating in our Q&As and panel discussions – an opportunity for you to hear them speak in an intimate setting on the topics that they’re passionate and knowledgeable about. We’ll cover the intersection of classical and contemporary music, the overlap between queer and heavy music communities, the ever expanding troubles with vinyl, the magic of community and collaboration, and a Q&A all about Roadburn 2022!
Don’t miss out!
Last names confirmed for Roadburn 2022
We promised a handful more bands – and here they are! We’re thrilled to welcome Wiegedood back to Roadburn as they perform their new album There Is Always Blood At The End Of The Road in full on the main stage, as part of Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone’s curated event. Svalbard will make their return to the mainland with a one off performance, and Motor!k, Severant and Ordigort will make their Roadburn debuts.
Don’t forget, there’s a limited number of weekend tickets back on sale via Ticketmaster.nl
Roadburn adds new venue for curated jazz & avant-garde programme
Roadburn has announced a new venue for the 2022 edition of the festival, which takes place April 21-24 this year. The renowned and respected jazz club Paradox will host a programme of artists across the four days of the festival, which highlights the more experimental and avant-garde artists in the Roadburn realm.
Bartho van Straaten, artistic director of Paradox comments:
“As a venue for innovating and adventurous improvised music, Paradox is thrilled to start this new collaboration with Roadburn, a festival that approached music with the same open-minded attitude. The program of Paradox and Roadburn definitely has an overlap, so it will be interesting to present common grounds by curating the Paradox stage together, and share our musical thoughts in redefining heaviness.”
With just a few more bands, art exhibitions and the side programme still to announce for Roadburn 2022, the jam-packed line up will have something for every visitor with a curiosity for heavy music.
Some names for the Paradox programme may be familiar to Roadburners already… We have invited Dirk Serries to be an Artist in Residence across all four days of the festival. He will perform in a different incarnation each day (Kristoffer Lo & Dirk Serries, TONUS, YODOK III, Martina Verhoeven Quintet) – showcasing his versatility and limitless imagination for jazz and its adjacent genres.
Autarkh III – the experimental-based off-shoot of Autarkh – performed at Roadburn Redux and will now return to the Roadburn stage to do it all again in front of a live audience.
ZAÄAR was born as an offshoot of neo-psychedelic cosmos-dwellers Neptunian Maximalism, which combines tribal rhythms, prog rock, ambient soundscapes and much more.
Red Kite were due to join Roadburn in 2020, and we’re delighted to have found a fitting space for them in the 2022 line up where they can conjure their white hot prog-psych-jazz blitz into reality.
Het Concreet feature the recently crowned City Composer of Tilburg, Mathijs Leeuwis among their ranks. The title gives a clue to the important creative work he and his fellow bandmates are capable of. Their combined talents will create a compelling electro-acoustic experiment featuring tape loops, deep vocals and sizzling percussion.
Dans Dans combine cerebral pop compositions with the impulsive, adventurous nature of jazz to great critical acclaim, despite being difficult to categorise as they straddle genres and seek to reinterpret the parameters of their art.
Pulled By Magnets will be making the trek over from London to bring their jazz-metal-ambient-classical hybrid to us at Roadburn. They create music so rife with possibility, and on such a cinematic scale, that it feels almost impossible for a three-piece unit to create, and yet…
PoiL Ueda combine Francophile prog rock with traditional Japanese folk to thrilling effect. John Ghost will crowd the stage with their sweeping, propulsive grooves, whilst Albatre will bring their freejazz/noise/metal stylings to Paradox. And closing out the festival will be Schnellertollermeier – a Swiss experimental rock trio that has immense attention to detail and avant-garde quirks.
Jo Quail shares first snippet of commissioned work, The Cartographer
Acclaimed cellist, Jo Quail, has today shared the first snippet of music from her upcoming Roadburn-commissioned project, The Cartographer – as well as announcing that she has signed to record label By Norse.
Back in 2019 we commissioned Jo to create a piece of music to perform at Roadburn 2020. We were drawn to Jo for her incredible talent to combine classical composition with contemporary heavy music and had absolute belief in her ability to create something stunning. The pandemic delayed the performance, which will now take place in a little under two months at the 2022 edition of the festival instead. The music will remain under lock and key until Jo and her ensemble of musicians step on stage at the 013 venue in Tilburg, but a small snippet can be heard in the video below where she talks about the origins of The Cartographer.
The delayed performance enabled Jo to commit The Cartographer to record, which will be released in May via By Norse – pre-orders are available now (click here for North America)
We’re already highly anticipating this special performance, and hope that Jo’s unique creativity, insight and abilities resonate with Roadburners too. You can read a little more about The Cartographer here. Don’t miss her performance on the main stage on Saturday, April 23 – but if you can’t join us, then mark May 6 on your calendars and prepare for The Cartographer to go global.
8 new names for Roadburn 2022
Roadburn has today confirmed a new group of names for the 2022 edition of the festival – including three performances for the regular Wednesday night pre-party, and a new edition to Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone’s curated event.
Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers comments:
“Following the success of Roadburn Redux we’re very proud to have a number of special sets and collaborations from Dutch artists at Roadburn this year – further emphasising Roadburn 2022’s artistic scope. With Europe opening up even further, things are looking really good for Roadburn this year, and we’re so looking forward to welcoming everyone to Tilburg in two months from now. Before then, we still have several more announcements up our sleeve, so stay tuned!”
Dead Neanderthals will make a triumphant return to Roadburn as they team up with Solar Temple for a special collaborative project titled Embers Beget The Divine. Dead Neanderthals will be a familiar name for Roadburners: they’ve spent the past decade-plus putting together an eclectic and envious back catalogue that spans multiple genres – from free-jazz to grindcore by way of psychedelia – and continuously defies expectations. No strangers to collaborations, they have now teamed up with Solar Temple – a more stage-shy ensemble but no less of an enticing prospect.
Radar Men From The Moon will perform three times – once at the pre-party (more of which in a moment), once under, once with an electronic set, and once with a specially commissioned collaborative set that will see them team up with Twin Sister (Dead Neanderthals, Sex Swing) – titled Mirrors For Discharge.
Mandy, Indiana are the final addition to Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone’s curated event. Their fusion of hypnotic beats and discordant noise come together to create something that’s both fascinating and immersive.
With the unmistakable vocals of Farida Lemouchi at the helm, Gott have also been added to the line up. Also featuring members of Soulburn, Severe Torture, Ggu:ll, Dodecahedron and Radar Men From The Moon, Gott are a veritable who’s who of the Dutch music scene. Elsewhere we’ve added Supersonic Blues to bring some 70’s rock vibes to Roadburn, and The Ballet Bombs who will be making their long overdue Roadburn debut as well as releasing their brand new live record titled Mutations at the festival.
The aforementioned pre-show party, now happening under the name The Spark, will serve as a welcome party for Roadburners old and new and will take place on Wednesday, 20 April. Joining Radar Men From The Moon will be Berlin’s Maggot Heart bringing their raucous take on noise rock ‘n’ roll to Tilburg, and Bad Breeding who will be letting off steam with their blistering anarcho-punk-hardcore.
These artists will join the already announced Roadburn 2022 line up that includes Ulver, Lingua Ignota, 40 Watt Sun, Emma Ruth Rundle, Liturgy, SLIFT, Full of Hell, Die Wilde Jagd, Cloud Rat and many more. Uniform and Pinkish Black will no longer perform at Roadburn 2022 due to their European tour being cancelled.
Weekend tickets, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday day tickets are sold out. Only Sunday day tickets remain in limited numbers. Tickets and accommodation options are available to view via ticketmaster.nl
PREMIERE: Sum of R - DAFT sessions
Having morphed into a three piece, SUM OF R are currently making the necessary preparations for Roadburn 2022, where they’ll perform their new album, Lahbryce, in full. They already released one single titled Crown of Diseased from Lahbryce, but now we are thrilled to bring you a further glimpse into what you can expect from the album as we premiere a live performance video of three tracks from the album, filmed at the DAFT studios last year. We’ll hand over to Sum of R mainman, Reto Mäder to explain more about the session:
“The new Sum Of R trio line-up saw not only a transformation from an instrumental project to a band with vocals, but also an international expansion from Switzerland to Finland. Therefore it was clear to us that we wanted to use the few meetings all the more constructively, intensively and gratefully.With this in mind, we booked a live recording day at the DAFT studios in Malmedy in early October 2021, directly following our first ever live shows with the new line-up around last year’s 24 Hours Of Deep Listening festival by Consouling Sounds in Belgium.We chose the DAFT studios mainly because of the large live room, where we could set up generously in the middle of the room, but also build an intimate playing atmosphere by facing each other in a circle. This spacious recording room with its large windows gave us the perfect setting to perform Hymn For The Formless, Sink As I and Borderline from the upcoming album Lahbryce as live versions.Playing these songs with lyrical themes of delusion, depersonalisation and trauma in pure daylight on a beautiful autumn afternoon gave a liberating acceptance and meaningfulness to these heavy topics.Special thanks go to Jeroen Mylle (camera, video edit) and Luuk Schelvis (live sound), who became part of this experience and captured it perfectly, so as to make the experience shareable in the most authentic way.Now we are gratefully looking forward to our next reunion where we will bring Lahbryce in full length to the Roadburn Festival and hope to share with this live session an extended insight into our upcoming album.”
More information about international travel to The Netherlands
We promised to keep you up to date with any possible restrictions or measures that may impact on Roadburn, so this is our first such update regarding this. Please note that the situation may change before April, and you must take responsibility for meeting necessary travel requirements for yourself – the information we’re providing is a guide.
Whilst it is possible that international travel restrictions may change before your trip to Roadburn, if you are planning on attending from outside The Netherlands, then this advice may serve as a guideline for what is likely to be required in April.
Roadburners traveling from within the EU are required to show a negative test result upon entry. It is not currently mandatory for you to be fully vaccinated. If you are traveling from a ´safe country´ outside the EU, you also don´t have to quarantine. You can find the list of safe countries here.
Outside of the EU (i.e UK, USA) if you are fully vaccinated, and received your booster vaccination at least 7 days before travelling to the Netherlands, as well as having a negative test result, then you may enter The Netherlands without quarantine. If you are not fully vaccinated, then you would be required to quarantine upon arrival (which we suspect is not likely very practical for most of you!). You would also need proof of your return journey, a quarantine declaration form, and a visa where applicable.
To be fully vaccinated means to have had at least two doses of an EU recognised vaccine at least 14 days prior to travel (28 days for the one-shot J&J vaccine) and for travellers from many countries, you are now required to have the booster too.
You can check which vaccines are accepted by the EU here.
You can read the overall guidance here.
You can do a step by step checklist here.
We recommend bookmarking these links for easy reference as your trip gets closer so you are always up to date with the latest travel advice.
This may be the first time you’ve traveled abroad since the start of the pandemic and we know that makes it feel quite daunting. Get up to speed with the requirements now and stay informed, that way your travel plans should run smoothly and you’ll be able to relax once you’re in The Netherlands for Roadburn.
We’ll keep you posted with any further updates.
New additions to Roadburn 2022 including second Artist In Residence and label showcase
Roadburn has today announced another 17 artists for the 2022 edition of the festival, which will take place between April 21-24 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Artistic Director, Walter Hoeijmakers, comments:
“With our last announcement before the end of 2021, we are super proud to have Pelagic involved again in Roadburn after their virtual Redux showcase earlier this year. And we know SLIFT will broaden our psychedelic horizons with three shows as artist-in-residence. Further, we offer this announcement in hope that 2022 will see a full return to international touring for festivals and club shows and we can all be together and celebrate in April. We wish you the happiest of seasons and hope you’re looking forward to Roadburn Festival 2022 as much as we are. Thank you for your continued support, faith and trust.”
French psych trio, SLIFT, have been announced as the second Artist in Residence for the 2022 edition (joining Full of Hell who were announced earlier this year). The band will perform three times over the course of the festival, including a collaborative performance with pioneering French musician, Etienne Jaumet (Zombie Zombie).
Pelagic Records will host a label showcase at the festival highlighting the diverse array of talent found on their roster. The showcase will climax with three interconnected performances courtesy of Lustmord, Lustmord and Karin Park performing cuts including from their collaborative album, Alter, and finishing off with Årabrot. The showcase will also feature Year Of No Light, LLNN performing Unmaker, new signings Bruit ≤, Oslo Tapes and a solo set from Karin Park.
Psych-heads rejoice – Die Wilde Jagd will perform at Roadburn, following two awe inspiring live performances at Roadburn Redux earlier this year. TAU & the Drones of Praise will also reprise their Redux appearance and make their way to Tilburg for an in-person performance.
Hangman’s Chair will complement their already-announced album set with a collaboration with Regarde Les Hommes Tomber. Originally commissioned by Red Bull and performed only once to date; the two bands have written additional material to extend the performance further into the reaches of their collective imaginations.
Originally scheduled to perform in 2020 Warhorse will finally perform at Roadburn 2022. Huntsmen will kick off their first trip to Europe with a special performance at Roadburn where they’ll play their 2018 album, American Scrap, in full.
London’s Five The Hierophant will make their Roadburn debut, as well as performing a collaborative piece with Wyatt E. and MC Slice titled Atonia.
These artists are added to a line up that already features Ulver, Lingua Ignota, Liturgy, Emma Ruth Rundle, Russian Circles, 40 Watt Sun, Backwash and many more. Click here to view the full line up and below to read more on these newly announced artists.
Weekend tickets, and Friday and Saturday day tickets are sold out. Thursday and Sunday day tickets remain in limited numbers. Tickets and accommodation options are available to view via ticketmaster.nl
