Can This Even Be Called Music?
this is an astounding album exploring the twilight between composition and improvisation and the role of percussion in contemporary music.
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New Works for Solo Percussion documents Chicago based drummer and composer Tim Daisy's latest musical developments within the solo percussion context. Inspired by a wide range of influences from both the worlds of sound and visual art, Tim has organized a series of new pieces which continue to investigate the balance between composed and improvised sound making, and how these two worlds influence and affect the other.
Tim Daisy is an American drummer and composer working in the fields of improvised and composed music. Tim moved to Chicago in 1997 and since that time has performed, recorded, and toured with many national and international improvised musicians and ensembles.
Some of the musicians Tim has been lucky enough to work with include: Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Steve Swell, Jaimie Branch, Katherine Young, Fred Lonberg-Holm, James Falzone, Russ Johnson, Katinka Kleijn, Elizabeth Harnik, Christof Kurzmann, Ikue Mori, Rafael Toral, Mikolaj Trzaska, Per Ake Holmlander, Darren Johnston, Havard Wiik, Jason Stein and Michael Zerang.
In 2011 he received the New Music America Composers Assistance Award and in 2011, 2012 and 2017 the ASCAP Plus Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers . He has recorded over one hundred and thirty albums as a sideman or leader for labels including Relay, (which he owns and operates), Not Two, Clean Feed, Astral Spirits, Aerophonic, Audiographic, Sonorus, Trost, Utech, New World, and Okka Disk.
Tim co-curates the weekly OPTION series at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. The programming explores contemporary perspectives on improvisation and composition in a ‘salon’ format, enabling local, national, and international artists to publicly discuss their practice and ideas as well as perform
Relay Recordings is an experimental music label owned and operated since 2011 by Chicago-based percussionist and composer
Tim Daisy. Relay documents much of the creative work that Tim has been involved with both in Chicago and beyond. Relay Recordings is 100% artist run. Ltd edition cd and/or digital download formats available.
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Simply amazing to hear a new album with Wadada and Ewart!! ...And Reed rounds out this trio beautifully.
Just gave it my first spin. Absolutely magical. jeffrey maurer
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