David Cross is best known as a member of King Crimson on the \u201cLarks\u2019 Tongues in Aspic\u201d and \u201cStarless and Bible Black\u201d albums. He also leads the David Cross Band and has been a guest artist, recording and performing live with a number of international groups including Stick Men.
Andrew Keeling is a composer and musician whose contemporary classical works have been internationally acclaimed. Besides working with David Cross he has also orchestrated the music of Robert Fripp (The Wine of Silence), arranged for Tim Bowness (Abandoned Dancehall Dreams) as well as playing with alt-rock band, The Gong Farmers. Keeling has also written a series of Musical Guides exploring the music of such bands as King Crimson.
\u201cOctober is Marigold\u201d is the second album from David Cross (electric violin) and Andrew Keeling (flute) and it is the third to appear on Noisy Records\u2019 \u2018Electric Chamber Music\u2019 label. Perhaps more strikingly than its predecessors, this recording epitomises the aims of that label to present music designed for an intimate setting which makes use of musical and electronic techniques used in rock. Cross and Keeling\u2019s \u201cEnglish Sun\u201d was released in 2009 (followed by a handful of gigs) and the duo recorded much of \u201cOctober is Marigold\u201d in the same year. These tracks lay dormant until 2020 when work recommenced on the new album.\u00a0
Whereas \u201cEnglish Sun\u201d encapsulates the vibrance of summer, \u201cOctober is Marigold\u201d portrays darker, melancholic autumnal atmospheres. The music is again mostly improvised, the exceptions being a previously written organ part for the title track and two guitar loops. Although the performances are spontaneous there is a clearer sense of architecture here, with the \u201cMarigold\u201d cello\/piano theme arching in four incarnations across the album. Nature continues to be an inspiration, with field recordings of birds finding a natural place alongside pizzicato violin and fluttering flute. Cross demonstrates the full potential of the electric violin with, for example, a haunting, muted trumpet-like sound on the title track and the earthy, evocative use of cello pitched violin. Keeling\u2019s flute seems to embody the human response to the realities of nature, breathing, tumbling and bending with the wind. Throughout, there is an uninhibited flow across musical reference points \u2013 hints of folk, blues and romance are exposed as the duo travel through this stark autumnal landscape.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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