David Cross (musician)

David Cross (born April 23, 1949 in Turnchapel near Plymouth , England ) is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as a violinist for his participation in the progressive rock band King Crimson between 1972 and 1975 (on the albums Larks' Tongues in Aspic , Starless and Bible Black , Red and USA ). He also plays the viola , mellotron and electric piano .

biography

Early years

His father was a church and cinema organist and played the piano in dance bands. David Cross began learning the violin at the age of nine . He got his first instrument for £ 1 from a junk shop. In high school he took the advanced courses in Latin, Greek and Ancient History. At this time he started improvising . He graduated with a degree in music and drama, was director of the college orchestra and formed a folk-rock band.

Musical career

From around 1970 he began to work in various folk and rock formations across Great Britain and as a session musician . In 1972 he joined King Crimson , with whom he recorded four albums and toured extensively in Europe, Canada and the USA.

In 1975 he recorded the album Forever Blowing Bubbles for Virgin Records with Clearlight . He now worked as a composer, producer, musical director and actor. He founded the rock improvisation band Ascend , with whom he played in the UK and at the Nancy Jazz Festival. In theater, he worked for the Royal Court Theater , Royal Court Upstairs , Bush Theater, Wyndham's Theater and Arts Meeting Place.

In the late 1970s, Cross worked in Dublin . He organized sessions, concerts and formed a 12-member band. He worked as a freelancer for the Players Theater Dublin, Trinity College Dublin , Project Arts Center Dublin. He initiated improvisation workshops at the Project Arts Center that were broadcast on RTÉ Television. He then worked for the BBC , Music Box, ICA Theater, Bristol Old Vic Theater Company and directed productions for the Theater Royal Bristol , Festival Theater Buxton, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh and Arnolfini Arts Center Bristol.

Cross was also very active in the 1980s as a musician, composer, producer, musical director and theater director. He performed with various jazz groups and with his own rock band (concerts in UK and at the Le Mans Jazz Festival). With the album Sightseeing (1988) the recordings started with his band Radius . He began increasingly to record solo albums, in which old comrades from the King Crimson environment were involved ( Robert Fripp , John Wetton , Peter Sinfield , Richard Palmer-James and Peter Hammill ), for example on his debut album Memos from Purgatory (1989).

In the 1990s, Cross produced various dance and theater performances. From 1993 to 1995 he obtained his Master of Arts in “Performing Arts” (interdisciplinary performances, papers on structure in post-modern art music, the hermeneutics of rock journalism). King Crimson published a number of live recordings in which he was involved (Frame by Frame, 1992, The Great Deceiver, 1994, The Night Watch, 1997, The Beat Club Bremen 1972, 1999 and others). He presented the solo albums The Big Picture (1992) and Exiles (1998) and founded his own label Noisy Records in 1999 . He has also recorded with Danielle Dax , Darling Buds , Jade Warrior , Dean Carter and Joe Hisaishi .

In 2000, Civilizations , Radius' fifth album, was released on Noisy Records. Cross took part in interdisciplinary performances with Verity Blackman (dance) and Maurizio Pio Rocchi (painting). Since 2001 he has been professor of music studies at the London Metropolitan University . 2004–2005 he gave solo violin concerts, a. a. in London, Tokyo, Osaka and Athens. In 2005 he released the album Closer Than Skin in collaboration with Mick Paul and Richard Palmer-James . In 2006 he recorded the album Unbounded with the Japanese singer and pianist Naomi Maki . He also worked with Haruhiko Tsuda , Korekyojin and Shuichi Chino in Japan and Chris Stassinopoulos in Greece. In 2012 he worked with Nektar on their album A Spoonful Of Time .

Discography

solo

• Memos from Purgatory (1989)
• The Big Picture (1992)
• Testing to Destruction (1994)
• Exiles (1998)
• Closer Than Skin (2005)

With King Crimson

• Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
• Starless and Bible Black (1974)
• Red (1974)
• USA (1975)
• Frame by Frame (1992)
• The Great Deceiver (1994)
• The Night Watch (1997)
• The Beat Club Bremen 1972 (1999)
• Cirkus: The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson - Live (1999)
• Collectors' King Crimson, Vol. 1 [Pony Canyon] (1999)
• Live in Central Park, NYC '74 (2000)
• A Beginners 'Guide to the King Crimson Collectors' Club (2000)
• Live in Mainz 1974 (2001)
• Collectors' King Crimson, Vol. 4 (2001)
• Collectors' King Crimson, Vol. 7 (2003)
• Collectors' King Crimson, Vol. 8 (2004)
• Live in Heidelberg, 1974 (2005)
• The Collectable King Crimson, Vol. 1 (2006)
• The Collectors' King Crimson, Vol. 10 (2006)
• The Condensed 21st Century Guide to King Crimson: 1969-2003 (2006)
• Live in Kassel 1974 (2007)
• Collector's Box, Vol. 3: 1972-1974 (2007)
• 40th Anniversary Tour Box (2009)

David Cross Band

• Alive in the Underworld (2008)
• Sign of the Crow (2016)

With Electric Chamber Music

• Navigator (with Naomi Maki) (2005)
• Unbounded (with Naomi Maki) (2006)
• English Sun (with Andrew Keeling) (2009)

With a radius

• Sightseeing (1988)
• Elevation (1989)
• Arc Measuring (1990)
• There Is No Peace (1994)
• Severe Test: System Collusion (1995)
• Civilizations (2000)
• Arc Messuring (2007)

Collaborations

• Clearlight: Forever Blowing Bubbles (1975)
• The Butterfly Ball (With Rod Edwards and Roger Hand) (1975)
• Paul Egan: Island of Dreams (1978)
• United Dairies: An Afflicted Man's Musica Box (1981)
• Shock Headed Peters: Life Extinguisher (1986)
• Low Flying Aircraft: Low Flying Aircraft (1988)
• Danielle Dax : "Blast the Human Flower" (1990)
• Dossier: Dossiers (1990)
• Darling Buds : Crawdaddy (1990)
• Jade Warrior : Distant Echoes (1993)
• Rime of the Ancient Sampler: A Mellotron Compilation (1993)
• Joe Hisaishi : Chijyoh no Rakuen (1994)
• Psychomuzak: Send (1997)
• Schizoid Dimension: King Crimson Tribute (1997)
• Nektar : A Spoonful Of Time (2012)
• Who Are You: An All-Star Tribute To The Who (2012)
• Robert Fripp : Starless Starlight (2015)
• With David Jackson : Another Day (2018)
• With Peter Banks : Crossover (2020)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Cross , Allmusic , accessed September 5, 2012
2. ↑ David Cross Biography ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2012 
3. ↑ David Cross Biography ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2012  
4. ↑ David Cross Biography ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2012  
5. ↑ David Cross , Allmusic , accessed September 5, 2012
6. ↑ David Cross Discography ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 6, 2012  
7. ↑ David Cross Biography ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 6, 2012  
8. ^ Nektar the official website , accessed September 6, 2012

Web links

• David Cross and Noisy Records , accessed September 5, 2012.