Darren Cross (musician)

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Darren Cross
Performing in Wollongong, December 2023 supporting Xylouris White.
Background information
Also known as
  • Darren E Spielberg-Cross
  • Darren James Cross
  • the E.L.F.
  • D.C Cross
BornSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • songwriter,
  • record producer
  • music video maker
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Years active1992–present
Labels
Websitedarrencross.bandcamp.com

Darren James Cross, previously known as Darren E. Spielberg-Cross, is an Australian songwriter, musician, record producer and video maker. Cross is the founding mainstay lead vocalist and guitarist of alternative rock group Gerling (1992–2007). He started the E.L.F. project in 2007, which issued an album, Plankton Icke and Tina Turner David City Limits (2010). His folk noir duo Jep and Dep were formed in 2012 with his domestic partner, Jessica Cassar on co-lead vocals, which have issued two albums. Under his own name he has released four studio albums, _Xantastic (2016), Peacer (2018), Keeping Up? (2020) and Distorder (2021). The artist's instrumental folk guitar project, D.C Cross has released four albums, Ecstatic Racquet (2019), Terabithian (2020), Hot-wire the Lay-low (Australian escapist pieces for guitar) (2022) and Wizrad (2023) .[1]

Cross has collaborated with other artists, the Apartments, Kylie Minogue, the Avalanches, Jagwar Ma and Kool Keith. The musician has worked in diverse genres from commercial house music, indie rock-style detuned guitar pop, abstract electronica with Gerling to Americana-style traditional folk music. Cross has a music and video production studio, Bernstein studios and performs live in Jep and Dep and as Darren Cross or D.C Cross.

Career[edit]

Gerling (1991–2007)[edit]

Main article: Gerling
Gerling on tour in United States at Devils Tower Wyoming, 2002. Darren Cross at left.

Darren James Cross,[2] as Darren E. Spielberg-Cross, on lead vocals, guitar and synthesiser founded the Australian alternative rock group, Gerling, in 1993.[3][4] He had attended secondary school in the western suburbs of Sydney, at the height of grunge. Other founders were Presser (a.k.a. Paul Towner) on drums and Brad Herdson on guitar and vocals.[3] Gerling's early music was influenced by Pavement, Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Beck and Mercury Rev; writing with two guitars and drums. The group provided experimental guitar pop, on their debut single, "Sedatives for Dead Radars" (1995) via Steve Pavlovic's Fellaheen Records label.

They followed with an extended play, A Day of Research (1996). Their repertoire moved towards dance music and sampling. Gerling released four studio albums, Children of Telepathic Experiences (February 1998), When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun (September 2001), Bad Blood!!! (2003) and 4 (March 2006).[5][3] The band toured Australia extensively, and also toured the United Kingdom gaining positive reviews in NME,[6] Japan and New Zealand. In 1999 Cross, Tim Everist and Rhys Lee formed Schwipe, a T-shirt label.[7]

Guest vocalists on When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun were Kylie Minogue on "G-House Prokect",[8] Kool Keith on "Brother Keith on Destructor Mountain (4001)",[9] Solex on "Windmills and Birdbaths" and Inga Liljeström on "Dust Me Selecta". Bad Blood!! was more in the dance and electronica genres due to use of sampled programmed drums, vocoders and computer plugins and distortion.[10][11] Gerling went into hiatus by 2008.[12] According to Cross, he wrote lyrics for 26 out-of 57 Gerling songs.[13] Cross and Presser, created the group's album artworks and collages, as the Deli Bros/Deli Brothers.[14][15]

The E.L.F. (2007–2012)[edit]

Main article: The E.L.F.
Cross as the E.L.F., April 2012

After Gerling announced an indefinite hiatus in 2007, Cross began working as the E.L.F., providing dance and electronica material. The E.L.F.'s debut extended play, Stevie Nicks Hearts (2008), was recorded at his home studio in Sydney. It was issued on his own label, Oak Records.[16] He released a second EP, Sunray in the Rave Cave (2008) and an album Plankton Icke and Tina Turner David City Limits (late 2010).[17] The album received 9.2 out-of 10 from Jonny of Polaroids of Androids.[18] Cross performed, produced and wrote all material himself; he also toured and DJed throughout Australia. His track "Cockroaches" was played on Triple J and its music video had nearly 250000 hits.[19][20]

In March 2010 Cross on lead guitar and vocals formed the pop rock trio, Betty Airs in Sydney with Christian Campano on lead vocals, maracas and tambourine, and Michael Zagoridis on drums.[21][22] They issued a single, "Reverse Now", via Cross' label Oak Records.[21] Cross also produced the work at his E.L.F. Porta-Studios in July of that year.[21] Triple J's reviewer, Richard Kingsmill rated "Reverse Now" at four-out-of-five and exalted, "Nice one Darren - still fighting the good fight. I like the mix of influences coming through in this."[23] Drew Larringfort of Rave Review caught their performance at Adelaide's Ed Castle, "[their] chemistry was incredible, feeding off each other with comical stage banter, joking with the 'hipsters' in the crowd and having a good old fashioned fun time."[22] By 2011 they had expanded to a four-piece with Patrick Matthews on bass guitar. Cross quit and the group broke up.[23] This line-up issued an EP, Creepin' It Real, by April of that year.[24][25]

Jep and Dep (2012–present)[edit]

Main article: Jep and Dep
Cross at left with Jessica Cassar, performing as Jep and Dep, January 2014

In 2012 Cross started a folk-noir duo with his domestic partner, Jessica Cassar on co-lead vocals, Jep and Dep.[26][27] They are often compared to Lee Hazlewood / Nancy Sinatra and Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue on Murder Ballads, with The Sydney Morning Herald's Jeff Apter stating, "ballads with the right balance of creeping menace and painful regret."[28] In late 2014 the duo independently released their debut album, Word Got Out, which received 4 out-of 5 stars in reviews at Rolling Stone Australia,[29] and The Sydney Morning Herald.[28] The duo adopt a film noir-aesthetic for their music videos, photographs and artwork and perform live with Cross on acoustic guitar and both on vocals.[30] They supported Johnny Marr (the Smiths),[31] Jessica Pratt, Mirel Wagner,[32] Courtney Barnett,[33] Kristin Hersh from Throwing Muses, Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals[34] and Blackeyed Susans.[35] Cross produced Word Got Out at his Bernstein Studios.[36]

Solo work (2012–present)[edit]

Cross, under his own name, released two independent folk, Americana EPs, Freak Out Inn III (April 2013)[37] and No Damage (2014).[38][39] He wrote, performed, produced the recordings; he also made the related artwork and most of the music videos himself.[40][41][42] Cross co-wrote "That Loneliness" on Jagwar Ma's debut album Howlin' (2013) with the band's Jonathan Ma and Gabriel Navidzadeh (a.k.a. Gabriel Winterfield).[43][44] He issued a single, "And the New York Rain Came Down" in December 2014.[45]

Cross described his debut album, _Xantastic (9 September 2016) (pronounced: ZAN-tas-tic) as "probably the closest thing I have done that would be a come close to a Gerling album… "[46] Cross wrote, recorded, produced all of the music at his Bernstein Studios, Sydney.[47] It was released via his own independent record label, No Drums Records for the Australian market. The label Rockers Die Younger issued it on vinyl in France in January 2017.[48][49]

Apter determined it is "an intriguing album... [with a] dark and stark mood."[48] Rhythmns magazine's Chris Familton said "melancholy, plaintiff and downbeat in the vein of Nick Drake, Beck, Neil Young and Bill Callahan – yet he has found clever and unobtrusive ways to incorporate samples, synths, drum machines and effects that add a dystopian, sci-fi quality to the music".[50] Rolling Stone Australia's Jonny Nail reviewed its track, "Highway Lights in the Night" and felt it is a "nostalgic synth-folk tilt, with his lonesome vocals, unmistakably his own."[51]

Cross released his second solo album, Peacer,[52] via No Drum in August 2018. Described as the bastian of a modern polymathic D.I.Y artist: writing, recording, performing and producing the album himself at his Bernstein Studios. Special guests on the album include R. Stevie Moore and Cassar from Jep and Dep.[citation needed] 4ZZZ radio's Jade Rodrigo described it as, "a crazy mix of dream pop, retro pop, indie-folk and avant pop, but somehow it cohesively comes together to deliver a cracker of an album."[53] The album jumps between anarchic gospel-krautrock-indie guitar pop tunes to neo-folk fingerpicking spaced out meltdowns.[54]

Keeping Up? (2020) is the first purely electronic album for Cross since 2008. He used an obsolete drum machine, computer and operating system. Tyler Jenke from Rolling Stone Australia gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5 and explained, "blissful ocean of nostalgia, with hazy instrumentation, vocoded vocals, and echoed drumbeats and electronic blips immersing the listener in a devastatingly unique, yet warmly familiar world of musical euphoria."[55] Doubtful Sounds' Chris Familton observed, "There's an overwhelmingly immersive quality to the music. Drug-like, womb-like - that intrinsic memory of holding your breath underwater as a child and feeling at peace in the aquatic cocoon."[56]

With comparisons to Gerling,[57] Cross released his fourth studio album, Distorder, on 19 July 2021 on bandcamp exclusively. Jenke stated "[it's] one which feels like a true breath of fresh air – an escapist's paradise made, fittingly, within Cross’ own studio utopia."[57] Backseat Mafia's Arun Kendall gave the album 8.7/10, "[it] is a brilliant expression of our times: discordant, unsettling and at times bleak, but delivered with a swagger and a panache. Cross puts on display his musicianship and creativity, creating something dark and elusive yet touched with a certain element of wry amusement. A panoply of sonic expression, a bitter confection of dissonance but a thoroughly enjoyable and cathartic whole."[58]

D.C Cross: (2019–present)[edit]

Cross, July 2021

Cross began a project as D.C Cross in 2019, by playing steel-string acoustic guitar using an American primitive guitar-style with an Australian feel and sound.[59] His influences include British folk revivalists Bert Jansch, John Fahey, Leo Kottke as well as newer artists, Ryley Walker and Steve Gunn. His first instrumental folk acoustic guitar album as D.C Cross is Ecstatic Racquet.[60] Rhythms magazine said "Finding beauty in small details, despair in others. It's a special thing to be able to create these wordless stories with such lyrical qualities, and in the context of contemporary Australian music this stands as a rare and quite unique album".[60][61]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, D.C Cross issued his second album, Terabithian (20 April 2020).[62] "Equally parts ambient and instrumental folk guitar influenced by American primitive guitarists, British folk revivalists and 90's new-age ambient music."[62] Tone Deaf's Tyler Jenke observed, "To put it simply though, if you're a fan of instrumental music, Terabithian is ... a record you must experience ... with [i] serving as one of the most mesmerising instrumental releases you'll hear for some time. D.C Cross' Terabithian is a high watermark of instrumental music."[62]

"Stolen Police Vehicle Down the Great Western Highway" was released on 28 April 2021, by D.C Cross. It is an antipodean instrumental guitar track, which was premiered on Radio National's Breakfast. It was the first live music performance on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) network in over a year, since the first wave of COVID-19 appeared in Australia.[63][64]

Cross released his third D.C Cross album Hot-wire the Lay-low (Australian escapist pieces for guitar) (5 February 2022).[65] Once again an instrumental Australian Primitive Guitar album, Folk Radio Uk said "an ace display of solo instrumental guitar music from a player with plenty to say and all the skills to say it..."[1] The album was written mostly in the Central Tablelands in N.S.W, Backseat Mafia wrote "Cross has released a quiet and evocative album of instrumentals, putting on show his refined and delicate abilities on guitar and ability to capture exquisite senses and feelings of the Australian countryside." The record was mastered by Patrick Klem.[66] On writing the album, Cross stated "Hearing Sonic Youth open tunings (Daydream Nation, Goo, Dirty) when I was a kid also was a gateway to John Fahey and Nick Drake solo guitar... it all made sense'.[66]

Cross released his fourth D.C Cross album Wizrad - Adventures into Ecstatic Guitar and Madcap Ambient (3 November 2023).[67] Glenn Kimpton of Folk Radio Uk said "This one is a must for fans of the more experimental and adventurous side of the solo acoustic genre, as well as those who enjoy serious acoustic guitar flexing".[67] and Bryget Chrisfield of Beat Magazine said " If you're feeling a bit broken, we reckon Wizrad will sort you right out. A liberating listening experience that unleashes creative thinking".[68]
Wizrad is equally parts ecstatic primitive guitar and madcap ambient. Studying the acoustic guitar as a solo instrument even further, Cross this time brought in influences as far reaching as Doc Watson, Enya, Chuck Wild, Mississippi John Hurt and the Tacoma catalog to make something uniquely Australian.
[69][70]
Holger Adam of Austrian music journal Skug writes "plays inspired and instrumental acoustic guitar" and "the music effortlessly finds its place in the niche, which was put together by John Fahey and has been carefully developed and rebuilt since".[71] Jim Marks of the United States based Dusted Magazine said "At less than 40 minutes, Wizrad zips by, likely leaving listeners wishing for a longer record and digging into Cross's back catalog, which is well worth the effort. His approach to the guitar is tried and true, and his mastery of it is on display here, along with a knack for composing memorable tunes".[72]
Peter Hollo of F.B.I Radio Utitily Fog says " Darren Cross made the journey from indie rock larrikinism with Gerling to folk songwriting and thence to the lovely expansive instrumental guitar music as D.C Cross. He's no pale imitator either - he knows how to make his guitar sing and thrum, and his D.C Cross albums do also wander off into ambient interludes and field recordings, in fine American Primitive form".[73] Cross released a music video for the album's track "A Harebrained Adventure of an Amateur Shaman" (February 2024), which was directed and created by Steve Hanft (the Cure, Elliott Smith, Beck).[74]

Discography[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Main articles: Gerling § Discography, the E.L.F. § Discography, and Jep and Dep § Discography

Darren Cross

  • _Xantastic (6 July 2016) – No Drums Records, Rockers Die Younger
  • Peacer (19 July 2018) – No Drums Records
  • Keeping Up? (6 November 2020) – No Drums Records (000007)
  • Distorder (19 July 2021) – No Drums Records

D.C Cross

  • Ecstatic Racquet (29 August 2019) – No Drums Records (000005)
  • Terabithian (20 April 2020)
  • Hot-wire the Lay-low (Australian Escapist Pieces for Guitar) (5 February 2022) – No Drums Records[75]
  • Wizrad - Adventures in Ecstatic Guitar and Madcap Ambient (3 November 2023) [67]

Extended plays[edit]

Betty Airs

  • Creepin' It Real (early 2011)

Darren Cross

  • Freak Out Inn III (13 April 2013)
  • No Damage (1 August 2014)

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