UPCOMING

Tue 8/3 Vandermark 5
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee ave
9pm

Sat 8/7 at 4pm. On air interview discussing and playing selections from the new release by Vox Arcana “aerial age” WNUR/Northwestern University= www.wnur.org

Tue 8/10 Vandermark 5
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
9pm

Wed 8/11 Vox Arcana – CD release party for “Aerial Age” allos documents
@The Hideout 1354W Wabansia
10pm

Tue 8/17 Vandermark 5
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
9pm

Thu 8/19 Alpenglow – Elisabeth Harnick – piano Annette Giesriegl- vocals
Dave Rempis – saxophones Tim Daisy – drums

Tue 8/24 Vandermark 5
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
9pm

Thu 8/26 The Dave McDonnell Group
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
9pm

Sat 9/4 Marco Polo Big Band
@ The Chicago Jazz Fest
2pm Jazz On Jackson Stage

Sep 6-19th Vandermark 5/Atomic Double Bill European Tour!
07 SEP :: Stockholm, Sweden | Jazzclub Fasching
08 SEP :: Bø, Norway | Bø Jazzklubb
09 SEP :: Oslo, Norway | Victoria, Nasjonal Jazz Scene
10 SEP :: Bergen, Norway | Bergen JazzForum
11 SEP :: Trondheim, Norway | Dokkhuset
12 SEP :: Eindhoven,Netherlands | AxesJazzPower
14 SEP :: Schorndorf, Germany | Club Manufaktur
15 SEP :: Wels, Austria | Alter Schl8tof
16 SEP :: London, England | Vortex
18 SEP :: Birmingham, England | CBSO Cente24 Sept 2010 Wrack | College of Marin Recital Hall, 835 College Ave, Kentfield | 8:00

Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack – West Coast Tour!
24 Sep 2010 Wrack| College Of Marin – Lefort Recital Hall, Fine Arts Rm. 72 corner of Sir Frances Drake Blvd and Laurel Ave Kentfield 8pm
25 Sept 2010 Wrack | Trinity Chamber Concerts, 2320 Dana St, Berkeley CA | 8:00
28 Sept 2010 Seattle, WA | Wrack | Gallery 1412, 1412 18th Ave (at Union St) | 8:00
29 Sept 2010 Portland, OR | Wrack | presented by Creative Music Guild | venue TBA
01 Oct 2010 Wrack + Rova | On Procedural Grounds: premiere of an extended collaborative work, with a second set by Rova | Community Music Center, 544 Capp St. SF | 8:00r

Vox Arcana Southeast Tour!
Oct 7 Vox Arcana -Fluorescent Gallery – Knoxville, TN
Oct 8 Vox Arcana -Columbia Museum Of Art -Columbia, SC
Oct 10 Vox Arcana- Watershed Arts Alliance Somerset,KY 3pm
Oct 10 Vox Arcana- Lexington, KY
Oct 11 Vox Arcana Thomas More College- Crestview Hills,KY

Wed 11/3 Umbrella Fest w/ Xavier Charles www.umbrellamusic.org
Thu 11/4 Umbrella Fest w/ Waclaw Zimpel www.umbrellamusic.org

7/09/2010

It’s been a little slow gigwise this first half of July….taking advantage of the free time to prepare for the Vox Arcana cd release concert at the Hideout on August 11th. I have a few new pieces written for the concert, should be a fun night……super excited! Also, been in wedding planning mode …many things to take care of, even if your technically only in charge of the music!!! Come August 28th I am a married man!! Getting married on a boat in beautiful Lake Geneva, Wisconsin….. many friends and family will be in attendance! Awesome!!

Now that the world cup is almost over (Viva Espana!) It’s time to get back into serious practice mode (which for me means practicing everyday if possible, even for 10 minutes! As long as I physically sit down behind the kit, it feels like I’m not losing anything!!) I have a good amount of work ahead of me that I’m super excited about, so it’s time to prepare……..

In the meantime, I hope all of you have a great summer and I hope to see you at out a gig soon!!

Tim

Happening Soon:

Sun 7/18 Daniel Levin-cello Tim Daisy- percussion
@ The Hungry Brain 2319W Belmont Ave Chicago, Il
10pm

Thu 7/22 (Sitting in 2nd set) W/ Nate Wooley -trumpet Jason Roebke-bass Fred Lonberg Holm – cello
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave Chicago,IL
10pm

Sat 7/24 The Engines at Okka Fest II @ Sugar Maple, Milwaukee, WI
More info at: www. improvisedsound.org

Sun 7/25 Ken Vandermark’s Topology featuring Joe McPhee @ The Sugar Maple, Milwaukee WI

Wed 7/28 The Engines (Dave Rempis/Jeb Bishop/Nate McBride/Tim Daisy)
@ The Hideout 1354W Wabansia Ave Chicago,IL
10pm

Thu 7/29 Darren Johnston- trumpet Tim Daisy -percussion
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
10pm

Tue 8/3 Vandermark 5
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee ave
9pm

Sat 8/7 at 4pm. On air interview discussing and playing selections from the new release by Vox Arcana “aerial age” WNUR/Northwestern University= www.wnur.org

Tue 8/10 Vandermark 5
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
9pm

Wed 8/11 Vox Arcana – CD release party for “Aerial Age” allos documents
@The Hideout 1354W Wabansia
10pm

Tue 8/17 Vandermark 5
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
9pm

Thu 8/19 Alpenglow – Elisabeth Harnick – piano Annette Giesriegl- vocals
Dave Rempis – saxophones Tim Daisy – drums

Tue 8/24 Vandermark 5
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
9pm

Thu 8/26 The Dave McDonnell Group
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
9pm

Sat 9/4 Marco Polo Big Band
@ The Chicago Jazz Fest
2pm Jazz On Jackson Stage

Sep 6-19th Vandermark 5/Atomic Double Bill European Tour
07 SEP :: Stockholm, Sweden | Jazzclub Fasching
08 SEP :: Bø, Norway | Bø Jazzklubb
09 SEP :: Oslo, Norway | Victoria, Nasjonal Jazz Scene
10 SEP :: Bergen, Norway | Bergen JazzForum
11 SEP :: Trondheim, Norway | Dokkhuset
14 SEP :: Schorndorf, Germany | Club Manufaktur
15 SEP :: Wels, Austria | Alter Schl8tof
16 SEP :: London, England | Vortex
18 SEP :: Birmingham, England | CBSO Center

Sept 23rd- Oct 2 Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack West coast tour

Oct 7 Vox Arcana -Fluorescent Gallery – Knoxville, TN
Oct 8 Vox Arcana -Columbia Museum Of Art -Columbia, SC
Oct 10 Vox Arcana- Watershed Arts Alliance Somerset,KY 3pm
Oct 10 Vox Arcana- Lexington, KY
Oct 11 Vox Arcana Thomas More College- Crestview Hills,KY

Wed 11/3 Umbrella Fest w/ Xavier Charles www.umbrellamusic.org
Thu 11/4 Umbrella Fest w/ Waclaw Zimpel www.umbrellamusic.org

Vox Arcana Aerial Age to be released August 3rd

The latest release by Vox Arcana “Aerial Age” will be available on Tuesday August 3rd.
Here is how you can get it:

Online sales at Amazon.com,CDbaby.com,JazzLoft.com, and Itunes
Also Available at Downtown Music Gallery,Dusty Groove America, and Jazz Record Mart

OR, you can send me an email at timothydaisy@warpmail.net, and get it directly from me through Paypal

Enjoy the music!!!

Allos Documents To Release Vox Arcana’s Aerial Age August 3rd

(May 6, 2010)

On August 3rd, Allos Documents will release Aerial Age, the second recording by the Chicago-based trio, Vox Arcana. Led by prolific drummer/composer Tim Daisy, this unusual two-year old working band features cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and clarinetist James Falzone, Daisy’s collaborators in such other prominent ensembles as KLANG and the Vandermark 5. Aerial Age documents a series of new Daisy compositions that juxtapose the structure of contemporary chamber music with the highly attuned, open-ended improvisation that distinguishes Chicago’s storied jazz scene.

“Much of the inspiration for this music comes from three different schools of experimental music that forged new paths in the sonic arts during the mid-to-late 20th century,” writes Daisy in the liner notes. “These include the New York school of composers (led by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff), the pioneers of the minimalist movement (including Terry Riley and La Monte Young), and the early innovators of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (including violinist/violist Leroy Jenkins and multi-reed player/composer Anthony Braxton).”

“Adding to these musical influences,” he continues, “a great deal of inspiration comes from the world of visual art. This includes the kinetic sculptural machines of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, American Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘combine’ paintings and his use of non traditional materials in innovative combinations, and the wall drawings of American Sol Lewitt, whose work straddled the line between minimalism and conceptualism and whose focused use of line and shape correlates with my own sense of rhythm and melody.”

“Commingling abstract expressionism with minimalism, open improvisation with thorny contemporary composition—it’s all in a day’s work for a musician as sensitive and catholic as Tim Daisy,” writes the Columbia Free Times‘ Logan K. Young. Known primarily for his drumming in more than a dozen active ensembles, Daisy founded Vox Arcana in the spring of 2008 as an outlet for his own original compositions. Since then, the group has self-released a limited edition debut and performed at venues around Chicago, including last year’s Umbrella Music Festival, as well as on tour dates across the Southeastern U.S.

www.improvisedcommunications.com

Upcoming performances

It’s shaping up to be a busy summer…I hope to see you out at one or more of these performances!!

Tuesday June 15th – The Frame Quartet
@ Sala Rossa- Montreal QC 9pm
www.casadelpopolo.com/suoniperilpopolo/

Wednesday June 16th – The Vandermark 5
@ LA Sala Rossa- Montreal QC 9pm
www.casadelpopolo.com/suoniperilpopolo/

Thursday June 17th – The Vandermark 5
@ Beverly Halls SPK Toronto, ON
www.beverlyhalls.com

Sunday June 20th- Vinosonic II at Experimental Sound Studio
5925N Ravenswood Ave 5-7pm
More info at :www.experimentalsoundstudio.org

Monday June 21st – The Engines Trio
@ The Skykark 2149S Halsted 10pm

Sunday July 18th – Daniel Levin. cello Tim Daisy. percussion
@ The Hungry Brain 2319W Belmont Ave 10pm

Thursday July 22nd – w/ Nate Wooley.trpt Fred Lonberg-Holm.cello and Jason Roebke.bass @ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave 10pm

Thursday July 29th – Darren Johnston/Tim Daisy Duo
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave

Okka Disk Anniversary! July 23rd -July 25!! @ The Sugar Maple Milwaukee WI
Friday July 23rd The Engines
Saturday July 24th Ken Vandermark’s Topology featuring Joe McPhee

Wednesday August 11th – Vox Arcana CD release party for “Aerial Age” (allos documents) @ The Hideout 1354W Wabansia 10pm

Thursday August 19th – Annette Giesriegl, vocals Dave Rempis,saxophones, Elisabeth Harnik-piano, Tim Daisy, drums
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave 10pm

Vinosonic II at Experimental Sound Studio

Sunday, June 20, 5-7 PM
Vinosonic II at Experimental Sound Studio, 5925 N Ravenswood

Vinosonic II is a special event at Experimental Sound Studio – fine wines are
paired with pieces of live and electronic music for a unique
sound-and-taste experience. In addition, there will be a raffle of ten
museum-quality visual art works.

Live musicians: Tim Daisy, Anton Hatwich, Josh Berman, and Dave Rempis.

Composers: Noé Cuellar, Ryan Ingebritsen, and Hal Rammel.

Visual artists: Sandra Binion, Mark Booth, Alice Hargrave, Mary Kennedy,
Linda Kramer, Stephen Lapthisophon, Darryl Lauster, Kristin Mariani, Michael
Mazurek, and Hal Rammel.

$20 suggested donation / $150 raffle tickets (only 10 available)

Please RSVP by e-mailing Lou Mallozzi at
lou@experimentalsoundstudio.org

More info: http://www.experimentalsoundstudio.org/pages/vinosonic/82.php

Vox Arcana Aerial Age To Be Released August 3rd

Allos Documents To Release Vox Arcana’s Aerial Age August 3rd

(May 6, 2010)

On August 3rd, Allos Documents will release Aerial Age, the second recording by the Chicago-based trio, Vox Arcana. Led by prolific drummer/composer Tim Daisy, this unusual two-year old working band features cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and clarinetist James Falzone, Daisy’s collaborators in such other prominent ensembles as KLANG and the Vandermark 5. Aerial Age documents a series of new Daisy compositions that juxtapose the structure of contemporary chamber music with the highly attuned, open-ended improvisation that distinguishes Chicago’s storied jazz scene.

“Much of the inspiration for this music comes from three different schools of experimental music that forged new paths in the sonic arts during the mid-to-late 20th century,” writes Daisy in the liner notes. “These include the New York school of composers (led by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff), the pioneers of the minimalist movement (including Terry Riley and La Monte Young), and the early innovators of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (including violinist/violist Leroy Jenkins and multi-reed player/composer Anthony Braxton).”

“Adding to these musical influences,” he continues, “a great deal of inspiration comes from the world of visual art. This includes the kinetic sculptural machines of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, American Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘combine’ paintings and his use of non traditional materials in innovative combinations, and the wall drawings of American Sol Lewitt, whose work straddled the line between minimalism and conceptualism and whose focused use of line and shape correlates with my own sense of rhythm and melody.”

“Commingling abstract expressionism with minimalism, open improvisation with thorny contemporary composition—it’s all in a day’s work for a musician as sensitive and catholic as Tim Daisy,” writes the Columbia Free Times‘ Logan K. Young. Known primarily for his drumming in more than a dozen active ensembles, Daisy founded Vox Arcana in the spring of 2008 as an outlet for his own original compositions. Since then, the group has self-released a limited edition debut and performed at venues around Chicago, including last year’s Umbrella Music Festival, as well as on tour dates across the Southeastern U.S.

www.improvisedcommunications.com

Excerpts From Marchland

I was fortunate to collaborate with and build a live percussion score for the Seldoms, an amazing contemporary dance ensemble based in Chicago led by choreographer Carrie Hanson. The work, titled “Marchland” was performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art on March 12th-14th 2010

Check out some excerpts from the work below

For more information about the Seldoms, visit:
www.theseldoms.org

Available Releases

Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark – Light On The Wall (2-LP Vinyl) Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark – Light On The Wall (2-LP Vinyl) $49.00
“Light On The Wall,” Daisy/Vandermark Duo: Tim Daisy [drums] and Ken Vandermark [tenor/Bb clarinet] toured Europe in May of 2007 for nearly a month, and recorded this double LP for Laurence Family Records to be released on this new vinyl-only label. The source for the first LP is the duo’s performance at the Dragon Club in Poznan, Poland; the second album represents rare solo performances by the two musicians- side [c] is Daisy’s first document of solo drums, and side [d] documents Vandermark’s first use of the A clarinet, a series of improvisations dedicated to Jimmy Giuffre. (KenVandermark.com)

Resonance Ensemble 10cd LTD Edition Box Set
$99
Recorded in Krakow Poland between November 12th and 16th 2007
Artist: Resonance Ensemble
Label: Not Two

10-CD Boxed Set! Recorded in Krakow, Poland between November 12 and 16, 2007, and in Lvov, Ukraine on November 17, 2007.

Resonance band is one of the most important groups in Ken Vandermark’s immense assortment of undertakings, which not only revisit several decades of history of jazz history art form (from Sonny Rollins to Stan Kenton, to Cecil Taylor, to Ornette Coleman, to Eric Dolphy, to …), but also writes some new and fascinating chapters…

When composing for a group, Ken Vandermark as a rule takes into account factors such as each musician’s approach to improvisation, personal tastes and individual sound. So when he chose to compose for a tentet that included musicians who were virtually an unknown quantity to him – musicians such as Polish saxophonist/clarinetist, Mikolaj Trzaska and the Ukrainian duo, Yuriy Yaremczuk on reeds and Mark Tokar on bass – it could have been seen as a foray into relatively unknown territory. And it was to an extent, although the leader had already forged an intimate understanding with some of the musicians who were involved – percussionist Tim Daisy and saxophonist Dave Rempis are after all fully-fledged members of the Vandermark 5 and Ken has worked with Swedish trumpeter Magnus Broo in the Four Corners project. He is also familiar with the work of tuba player Per-Âke Holmlander and percussionist Michael Zerang as they play together in Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet. But nobody in the tentet – extraordinarily, given his reputation and work ethic – had previously performed with New York-based trombonist, Steve Swell. Vandermark completed the majority of the arrangements over the six day period before the group arrived. Some of the compositions had been sketched out previously and others were inspired by the atmosphere and people Ken associated with Krakow, the historic old city that has become his second home.

When the musicians arrived, they found themselves immersed in a punishing schedule that started with daily rehearsals that started at 10am – sharp. Although always open to musically justified new ideas, Vandermark called for extraordinary precision in these rehearsals. So it was unsurprising that many of the musicians really let off steam in the freely improvised evening sets that followed the rehearsals. But it didn’t stop there. Many of the musicians espoused sleep after the evening sets in favour of bison-grass-vodka-fuelled discussions about music that lasted well into the night.
At the end of the week, music fans from all over the region flocked to the concerts in Lviv and Krakow that the musicians had been rehearsing for over the preceding five days, one group even chartering a jet from Georgia. At the end of the week, when it was time to say goodbye, the bonds formed between some of the musicians were so strong that some couldn’t contain their tears. But for many of these artists it was adieu rather than farewell as many intend to build on their Resonance experience by collaborating with each again in the future. (Philip Palmer, Jazzwise magazine)

ARTISTS
Ken Vandermark (USA) – tenor & baritone saxes, clarinet
Yuriy Yaremchuk (Ukraine) – tenor & soprano saxes, bass clarinet
Mikolaj Trzaska (Poland) – alto sax, bass clarinet
Mark Tokar (Ukraine) – bass
Steve Swell (USA) – trombone
Dave Rempis (USA) – tenor & alto saxes
Per-Âke Holmlander (Sweden) – tuba
Tim Daisy (USA) – drums
Magnus Broo (Sweden) – trumpet
Michael Zerang (USA) – drums, percussion

Engines – Wire and Brass Okka Disk $15

Chicago’s best known and busiest improvising musicians: trombonist Jeb Bishop, saxophonist Dave Rempis, bassist Nate McBride and drummer Tim Daisy. Recorded live in April, 2008 at the Hungry Brain in Chicago.
ARTISTS
Jeb Bishop (trombone); Dave Rempis (saxophones); Nate McBride (acoustic and electric bass); Tim Daisy (drums)

These release are available by contacting me at: timothydaisy@warpmail.net

Upcoming Performances

Here are a few performances that I have coming up. Hope to see you out there!

Saturday April 17th w/ Marco Polo (Big Band organized by reedist/composer Cameron Pfiffner) @ The Green Mill 4802N Broadway 8pm

Thursday April 22nd w/ Klang
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave 10pm

Saturday May 1st Marc Riordan Trio
@ Heaven Gallery
1550N Milwaukee Ave
10pm

Thursday May 6th Ken Vandermark/Tim Daisy Duo LP Release Party for “Light On The Wall” – Lawrence Family Records @ The Velvet Lounge
67E Cermak 9pm

Friday May 7th – Frame Quartet
@ The Velvet Lounge 67E Cermak 9pm

Saturday May 8th – The Vandermark 5
@ The Velvet Lounge 67E Cermak 9pm

14 MAY-29 MAY :: REMPIS PERCUSSION QUARTET – EUROPEAN TOUR!!
15 MAY :: Belgrade, Serbia | Ring Ring Festival
18 MAY :: Maribor, Slovenia | Navodny Dom
19 MAY :: Mainz, Germany | Café 7°
20 MAY :: Oslo, Norway | Victoria, Nasjonal Jazz Scene
21 MAY :: Stavanger, Norway | Sting JazzClub
22 MAY :: Warsaw, Poland | Powiecszenie

Mikolaj Trzaska/Clayton Thomas/Tim Daisy Trio
May 30 @ Powieczenie Warsaw, Poland

Thursday June 10th – Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave 10pm

Sunday June 13th – Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack
@ The Hungry Brain 2319W Belmont Ave 10pm

Tuesday June 15th – The Frame Quartet
@ Sala Rossa- Montreal QC 9pm
www.casadelpopolo.com/suoniperilpopolo/

Wednesday June 16th – The Vandermark 5
@ LA Sala Rossa- Montreal QC 9pm
www.casadelpopolo.com/suoniperilpopolo/

Thursday June 17th – The Vandermark 5
@ Beverly Halls SPK Toronto, ON
www.beverlyhalls.com

Monday June 21st- Engines Trio
@ The Skylark 2149S Halsted Street
10pm

Saturday July 24th – The Engines
@ Okka Disk Festival – The Sugar Maple
Milwaukee, WI

Sunday July 25th – Ken Vandermark’s Topology w/ Joe McPhee
@ Okka Disk Festival – The Sugar Maple
Milwaukee, WI

Thursday July 29th – Darren Johnston/Tim Daisy duo
@ Elastic Arts 2830N Milwaukee Ave
10pm

Vandermark 5 Tuesday’s at Elastic
Aug 3,10,17, and 24th
@ Elastic Arts 2830N MIlwaukee Ave
9pm

Vox Arcana cd release party!
August 11th
@ The Hideout
1354W Wabansia Ave
10pm

Saturday September 4th
Marco Polo
@ The Chicago Jazz Festival

Vandermark 5/Atomic Double bill Tour!
September 7-18
Sep 7:: Stockholm,Sweden
Sep 8:: Copenhagen,Denmark
Sep 9:: Oslo, Norway
Sep 10:: Bergen,Norway
Sep 11:: Trondheim, Norway
Sep 16 :: Schorndorf, Germany
Sep 17:: Salzburg, Austria
Sep 18:: Birmingham, England

Kyle Bruckmann’s WRACK / West Coast tour!
Sept 23rd-Oct 3rd
details tba

Vox Arcana Southeastern US Tour!
Oct 7-12
Oct 7:: Knoxville,TN tba
Oct 8:: Columbia,SC Columbia Museum of Art
Oct 10:: Somerset, KY
Oct 10:: Lexington, KY
Oct 11:: Crestview Hills, KY Thomas More College

FOUR Tours Poland * * ENGINES Tour France Netherlands and Belgium

Hope to see you at one of these concerts!

FOUR Dave Rempis-saxophones Waclaw Zimpel-c clarinets Mark Tokar- bass Tim Daisy-drums
17 MAR :: Krakow | Alchemia
18 MAR :: Warsaw | Powiecszenie
19 MAR :: Poznan | Dragon Club
20 MAR :: Gdansk | Klub Zak

THE ENGINES
Jeb Bishop- Trombone Dave Rempis-saxophones Nate McBride bass Tim Daisy- drums

21 MAR :: Zaandam, Netherlands | Serah Artisan
22 MAR :: Enschede, Netherlands | Jazzpodium Drienerlo
24 MAR :: Brest, France | Penn-Ar-Jazz
26 MAR :: Poitiers, France | Carré Bleu
27 MAR :: Nantes, France | Pannonica
28 MAR :: Hasselt, Belgium | Belgie
29 MAR :: Eindhoven, Netherlands | Café Wilhelmina
30 MAR :: Amsterdam, Netherlands | Zaal 100