Interviewing The Legends: Curved Air

Legendary Violinist

Keyboardist

and Composer

D A R R Y L W A Y

Releases New Single “Morpheus”

Featuring

Steve Hogarth of Marillion

From the Forthcoming Album

“The Rock Artist’s Progress”

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Thirty years on, old mates Steve Hogarth and Darryl Way, have collaborated on the single “Morpheus”, released on August 25th. The track is taken from Darryl’s forthcoming album “The Rock Artist’s Progress”; a unique concept and project created by legendary violinist Darryl Way that consists of an album and novel that are intrinsically linked together and sold as a bundle. The novel will also include musical illustrations created by Darryl, that can be clicked on and listened to, whilst reading. Both album and novel are due for release on September 23rd, on Spirit of Unicorn Music, Cherry Red Records, iTunes and Amazon.

Darryl Way with Curved Air

The novel, written by Charles Shorwell, is set against the backdrop of the musical revolution that started with the Beatles and begins in 1968, a year after ‘The Summer of Love’ and follows the story of Daniel Luckham, a young classical pianist studying at the Royal College of Music. Seduced by the rock music scene and vibrant counterculture in London at that time, he contrives to leave college and pursue a career in ‘Rock’. But some bad decisions lead him down a dark and dangerous alley, populated by drug dealers, unscrupulous managers, and femme fatales. On his journey to fulfil his dreams, Daniel finds his integrity challenged, and the innocence of youth cruelly stripped away.

The connection between the album and novel, unfortunately has to remain a secret, as to divulge that information would give away a key plot line in the novel. All that can be said is that the album represents a body of work recorded in the late 60s. Created by Darryl Way, the album features a guest vocal performance from Steve Hogarth of Marillion, on the track “Morpheus”.

PURCHASE

THE

ROCK ARTIST’S

PROGRESS

DARRYL WAY

“The Rock Artist’s Progress” is available for preorder at www.cherryred.co.uk

Darryl’s forthcoming album “The Rock Artist’s Progress”; a unique concept and project created by legendary violinist Darryl Way that consists of an album and novel that are intrinsically linked together and sold as a bundle.

Both album and novel are due for release on September 23rd, on Spirit of Unicorn Music, Cherry Red Records, iTunes and Amazon.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

DARRYL WAY

VISIT

www.darrylway.com

Official website

www.charlesshorwell.co.uk

Charles Shorwell

Discography

with Curved Air

Air Conditioning (1970) including Vivaldi

Second Album (1971) on which he co-wrote their sole charting hit Back Street Luv

Phantasmagoria (1972)

Live (1975)

Midnight Wire (1975)

Airborne (1976)

Renegade b/w We're Only Human (1984)

Live At The BBC (1995)

Alive, 1990 (2000)

With Darryl Way's Wolf

Canis Lupus (1973)

Saturation Point (1973)

Five in the Morning b/w Bunch of Fives (1973)

Night Music (1974)

Darryl Way's Wolf (compilation from Canis Lupus and Saturation Point) (1974)

With Trace

Birds (1975)

With Pierre Moerlen's Gong

Expresso II (1978)

With Jethro Tull

Heavy Horses (1978)

Solo

Concerto for Electric Violin (1978) - Francis Monkman synthesizes an orchestra

Little Plum b/w Sweet Dreams (1982) - produced by Martin Gordon for Snat Records

As Long as There's a Spark... (1983) - EP

Little Plum (remix) b/w Love Is The Driver (1984)

Edge of the World (1984)

The Human Condition: Suite for String Orchestra, Piano and Percussion (1987)

Under the Soft (1991)

Classical Rock (music for TV and Film) (2010)

Ultra Violins (2013)

Children Of The Cosmos (2014)

Myths, Legends And Tales (2016)

Vivaldi's Four Seasons In Rock (2018)

Destinations (2019)

The Rock Artist’s Progress (2022)

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