John Cale has launched a brand new single, “Night time Crawling“.
The tune is his first new music since 2020’s single, “Lazy Day”, and his collaboration with Kelly Lee Owens on “Nook Of My Sky”.
Evoking the spirit of mid-’70s New York, the tune recalling occasions when Cale and David Bowie would traverse town at night time.
You’ll be able to watch the video for “Night time Crawling” under:
Says Cale, “There was this era round mid-late 70s when David and I’d run into one another in NY. There was loads of speak about getting some work finished however in fact we’d find yourself working the streets, generally till we couldn’t maintain a thought in our heads, not to mention truly get a tune collectively! One night time we managed to satisfy up for a profit live performance the place I taught him a viola half so we may carry out collectively. After I wrote ‘Night time Crawling,’ it was a reflective second of specific occasions. That form of NYC that held artwork in its grip, sturdy sufficient to maintain it protected and harmful sufficient to maintain it fascinating. I at all times figured we’d have one other go on the two of us recording collectively, this time with out the interference of being perpetually off our heads! The factor about creating music is the power to divine a thought or feeling even when actuality says it’s a logical impossibility.”
In the meantime, Cale excursions the UK in October/November. You’ll be able to see him at:
Solar twenty third Oct – The Queen’s Corridor, Edinburgh
Mon twenty fourth Oct – Barbican, York
Fri twenty eighth Oct – Llais Pageant, Cardiff *
Mon thirty first Oct – Playhouse Whitley Bay, Whitley Bay
Thu third Nov – Birmingham City Corridor, Birmingham
Mon seventh Nov – De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
Wed ninth Nov – The London Palladium, London
Thun tenth Nov – Cambridge Corn Alternate, Cambridge
Fri eleventh Nov – Liverpool Philharmonic Corridor, Liverpool
* = John Cale + particular company, eightieth Birthday Celebration
