Ex King Crimson Violinist David Cross Talks New Album on Interviewing the Legends

Ex-King Crimson Violinist David Cross Announces the Release of New Studio Album “Ice Blue, Silver Sky” OUT NOW!

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.

Initially inspired by Leadbelly, the Beatles, Bartok, Coltrane and his church organist father, David became an irrepressible improvisor and experimenter.  His subsequent immersion in rock music introduced him to a new, vast pool of expressive possibilities.  Currently, he plays a half fretted Violectra electric violin with 5 strings and an octave drop pedal, giving him a pitch range from the bottom of the cello to the top of the violin.

David Cross was a member of King Crimson during the 1970s and continues to have a loyal fan base. He’s best known for playing violin on the albums “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic” and “Starless and Bible Black”.

The musicians featured on his new album “Ice Blue, Silver Sky” include Jinian Wilde, Mick Paul, Steve Roberts and a special guest appearance on two tracks by David Jackson of Van Der Graaf Generator.

This new studio album features new tracks along with new recordings of the two classic King Crimson tracks “Exiles” and “Starless”. The album title refers to a lyric in Starless and King Crimson lyricist Richard Palmer-James contributes to the lyrics on this album.

PLEASE WELCOME English electric violinist and keyboardist best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson from 1972 to 1974 …DAVID CROSS

to Interviewing the Legends…

 

PURCHASE

“Ice Blue, Silver Sky”

By DAVID CROSS

available at

Amazon CD: https://geni.us/DCBcd

Apple Music: https://geni.us/DCBam

Spotify: https://geni.us/DCBsp

Also available directly from Cherry Red: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/artist/david-cross/

David Cross said of the album "There is a narrative to this album which emerges from a patchwork of natural soundbites, lyrics and scripted text. The music is the tale."

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

DAVID CROSS

VISIT

https://www.davidcrossband.com/

Official David Cross Band

https://www.facebook.com/p/DAVID-CROSS-BAND-100063465880269/

Facebook

https://twitter.com/DavidCrossMusic

Twitter

https://twitter.com/DavidCrossMusic

Instagram

https://www.youtube.com/@davidcrossmusic/videos

YouTube

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4nGJ8XGDESeMddmA7TZ0I7

Spotify

 

DAVID CROSS BAND

TOUR 2024

Feb 21st 2024

 Katowice, Poland

David Cross Band, Larks' Tongues at 50

Larks' Tongues @ 50. The David Cross Band will perform the whole of Larks' Tongues in Aspic live.

 

Feb 22 2024

Wroclaw, Poland

 Thu 22nd, Feb 2024

David Cross Band, Larks' Tongues at 50

Larks' Tongues @ 50. The David Cross Band will perform the whole of Larks' Tongues in Aspic live.

 

Feb 23 2024

Poznan, Culture Center Zamek, Poland

David Cross Band, Larks' Tongues at 50

Larks' Tongues @ 50. The David Cross Band will perform the whole of Larks' Tongues in Aspic live.

 

Feb 24 2024

Bydgoszcz, Kuźnia Klub, Poland

David Cross Band, Larks' Tongues at 50

Larks' Tongues @ 50. The David Cross Band will perform the whole of Larks' Tongues in Aspic live.

 

Feb 25 2024

Warsaw, Hybrydy Klub, Poland

David Cross Band, Larks' Tongues at 50

Larks' Tongues @ 50. The David Cross Band will perform the whole of Larks' Tongues in Aspic live.

 

Discography

With King Crimson

Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)

Starless and Bible Black (1974)

Red (1974) (“Providence” as a performer, “Providence” and “Starless” as a co-composer)

Live albums

USA (1975) (recorded in June 1974)

The Great Deceiver (1992) (boxed set, 1973–1974)

The Night Watch (1997) (recorded in November 1973)

 

With Robert Fripp

Starless Starlight (2015)

 

Solo / David Cross Band

Memos from Purgatory (1989)

The Big Picture (1992) (David Cross Band)

Testing to Destruction (1994) (David Cross Band)

Exiles (1997) (David Cross Band + guests)

Closer Than Skin (2005) (David Cross Band)

Alive in the Underworld (2008) (David Cross Band)

Sign of the Crow (2016) (David Cross Band)

Crossing the Tracks (2018)

Ice Blue, Silver Sky (2023)

 

With Naomi Maki

Unbounded (2006)

With Radius

Arc Measuring (1988)

Sightseeing (1989)

Elevation (1992)

There Is No Peace (1995)

Civilisations (2000)

 

With Andrew Keeling

English Sun (2009)

October Is Marigold (2021)

 

Collaborations

The Butterfly Ball (With Rod Edwards and Roger Hand) (1975)

Clearlight: Forever Blowing Bubbles (1975)

Paul Egan: Island of Dreams (1978)

Shock Headed Peters: Life Extinguisher EP (1986)

Low Flying Aircraft: Low Flying Aircraft (1987)

Danielle Dax: Blast The Human Flower (1990)

Jade Warrior: Distant Echoes (1993)

Rime of the Ancient Sampler: A Mellotron Compilation (1993)

Joe Hisaishi: Chijou no Rakuen (1994)

Stick Men + featuring David Cross: Midori (2016)

David Cross and Sean Quinn: Cold Sky Blue (2016)

David Cross and David Jackson: Another Day (2018)

David Cross and Andrew Booker: Ends Meeting (2018)

David Cross and Peter Banks: Crossover (2020)

 

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