Quercus

There are two bands with the name Quercus.
1. Quercus - doom-project from Czech Republic
Status:Active
Description: Promising new two-man project from the Czech Republic with a heavy, uncompromising, modern doom sound that shows some similarities to old Unholy. Cold, dissonant and bleak music for the joyless winter nights.
Discography:
2002: ‘Promo 2002’ (Demo CD) None
2002: ‘Kverulant’ (Demo CD) None
2004: ‘Nenia’ (Mcd) Foreshadow Productions
2005: ‘Quercus/The River/Oktor Split’ (Split CD) Forestshadow Productions
2007: ‘Postvorta’ Desert Factory
2. Quercus - folk-jazz trio: June Tabor - vocals, Huw Warren - piano, Iain Ballamy - saxophones
Three unique musicians converge to create an evocative mixture of words and music, encompassing jazz, folk and traditional songs in contemporary settings. Saxophonist Iain Ballamy, and pianist Huw Warren, winner of the 2005 BBC Jazz Award, both have international reputations as composers; June Tabor is quite simply one of today's most commanding and distinctive interpreters of traditional song.
June Tabor's singing career, initially unaccompanied, grew alongside those of contemporaries such as Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, Martin Simpson and Maddy Prior. A restless creativity has led her into unexpected collaborations where she has applied her interpretational acuity to material by writers including Duke Ellington, Elvis Costello, Tchaikovsky and Tom Jobim.
Tabor joins forces with pioneering jazz musicians / composers Iain Ballamy (saxophone) and Huw Warren (piano) under the name Quercus. The performance they create is lyrical, harmonically intriguing and quietly emotional, using original instrumental pieces as breathing spaces between sets of songs. The result is a fertile musical microclimate in which Tabor's natural eclecticism truly thrives.