Celtic Cross (band)
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Celtic Cross was a musical collaboration of Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle
Shpongle
Shpongle is an English psychedelic downtempo/psybient music project formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford and Raja Ram . Their musical style combines eastern ethnic instruments and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music...

), Martin Glover
Martin Glover
Martin Glover, also known as Youth, is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. He is a member of The Fireman along with Paul McCartney. Glover was born in Africa.-Early career:...

 (bassist from Killing Joke
Killing Joke
Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England; other sources report the band formed in early 1979.Related news articles: Founding members Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker have been the only constant members.A key influence on industrial rock,...

) and Saul Davies (violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist from James
James (band)
James are a British rock band from Manchester, England. They formed in 1982 and were active throughout the 1980s, but most successful during the 1990s. Their hit singles include "Come Home", "Sit Down", and "She's a Star" as well as their American College Radio hit "Laid"...

). The style of music could be described as psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

, ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 and dub music
Dub music
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 with ethnic influences. The cover of the Hicksville album was designed by Mark Neal, the same artist who worked on Posford's Twisted
Twisted (Hallucinogen album)
Twisted is the debut studio album by Hallucinogen released on October 16, 1995 on Dragonfly Records.The album reached Number 27 in the French album charts, and it is one of the most successful albums releases in the genre, with a total sales over 85,000 copies worldiwde...

and The Lone Deranger
The Lone Deranger
The Lone Deranger is a goa trance album released by Hallucinogen in 1997 on Twisted Records. The name of the album is word play on the Lone Ranger, a fictional cowboy and hero of several eponymous radio and television series.-Track listing:#"Demention"...

, as well as the Shpongle albums.

Discography

  • Hicksville
    Hicksville (album)
    Hicksville is the only release by the musical project Celtic Cross.-Track listing:#Hicksville – 7:35#*Featuring Matt Coldrick from Green Nuns Of The Revolution#Stargate Avalon – 1:32#Jade Garden – 7:38#Shwazz – 8:59#Fifth Level – 4:36...

    (Liquid Sound Design, Nova Tekk Records 1998)
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