Vox Arcana

Vox Arcana: Aerial Age

by John Sharpe
August 30, 2010

A list of influences including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Anthony Braxton is not the norm for a drummer-led ensemble, and gives notice that preconceptions are about to be challenged. These are the diverse inspirations Tim Daisy draws upon in Aerial Age, the sophomore offering from Vox Arcana, his vehicle exploring that ever fertile borderline between composition and improvisation. Best known for fuelling the fires of the Vandermark 5, the drummer remains a cornerstone of ...

Vox Arcana: Aerial Age

by Nic Jones
July 27, 2010

This is drummer Tim Daisy's working trio. His other work with Ken Vandermark has in recent years mapped out new territory for the always vibrant Chicago creative music scene. Daisy's compositions make up the whole program on this title and it's clear from them that his influences range from that city to schools outside of the improvised music continuum; if this implies a broad outlook then that's pretty much close to the truth for all the chamber music implications of ...

Out Today: Vox Arcana's Aerial Age (Allos Documents)

Source: Improvised Communications
August 4, 2010

Today is the official street date for Aerial Age (Allos Documents), the latest release from Chicago-based drummer/composer Tim Daisy's unusual working trio, Vox Arcana.

Joined by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and clarinetist James Falzone, his collaborators in such other renowned ensembles as KLANG and the Vandermark 5, Daisy showcases his own original compositions, which juxtapose the structure of contemporary chamber music with the highly attuned, open-ended improvisation that distinguishes Chicago's storied jazz scene.

Among Daisy's diverse inspirations for this project are ...
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