Vox 3 is (formerly Vox Arcana) Chicago percussionist and composer Tim Daisy’s
long running experimental music trio, featuring fellow cohorts Fred Lonberg –
Holm on cello and James Falzone on clarinet. Formed in Chicago in 2009 as an
outlet for Daisy’s multi-faceted explorations bridging compositional forms with
spirited, open ended improvisations, the trio has since released multiple albums
and has toured extensively throughout North America.

Discography
Vox Arcana – Live At The Hideout Chicago (relay recordings) 2009
https://www.discogs.com/release/3209207-Vox-Arcana-Live-At-The-Hideout-Chicago
Vox Arcana – Aerial Age (allos documents 004) 2010
https://www.discogs.com/release/6007258-Vox-Arcana-Aerial-Age
Vox Arcana – Soft Focus (relay recordings) 2012
https://www.discogs.com/release/6878601-Vox-Arcana-Soft-Focus
Vox Arcana – Caro’s Song (relay recordings) 2015
https://www.discogs.com/release/7386344-Vox-Arcana-Caros-Song
Vox 4 – Roman Poems with Macie Stewart 2019
https://www.discogs.com/release/14418050-Tim-Daisys-Vox-4-Roman-Poems
Vox 4 – A New Hotel with Gabby Fluke – Mogul 2023
https://www.discogs.com/release/31673591-Tim-Daisys-Vox-4-A-New-Hotel

Press Quotes

“Largely eschewing pyrotechnics in favor of understated trap set and marimba
excursions, Daisy’s nuanced approach is bolstered by the considered support and
intimate interplay of two of the Windy City’s most versatile improvisers, clarinetist James
Falzone and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm. Falzone’s nimble cadences reveal an expansive
tone that veers from mellifluous to strident, making a perfect foil for Lonberg-Holm’s
chameleonic tendencies, which alternate between dulcet pizzicato and raw, punk rock
influenced arco, amplified by a bevy of effects pedals. Whether engaged in three-way

dialogues, supportive accompaniment or lone cadenzas, Daisy, Falzone and Lonberg-
Holm offer a kaleidoscopic array of texturally adventurous harmonic invention. Aerial

Age documents the impressive talents of Chicago’s next generation of
composer/improvisers.” –Troy Collins, Point of Departure

Reviews

Vox 4 “Roman Poems” https://www.freejazzblog.org/2019/11/tim-daisys-vox-4-roman-
poems-relay-2019.html

Vox Arcana “Caro’s Song” https://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/07/vox-arcana-caros-
song-relay-2015.html

Vox Arcana “Aerial Age” https://www.allaboutjazz.com/aerial-age-allos-documents-
review-by-nic-jones

“A trio that combines the best elements of each into a wild whole . . . fans of intricate
scripting and wild improvisation will love it.” –Alarm Magazine

Xylyn Hathaway- bass w/James Powers- trombone, Brian Myers-sax , and Tim DuRoche-drums

Xylyn Hathaway has become a conduit of vulgar-beauty-jazz music that sinks teeth into the space it fills. She paints canvas into composition and wield an upright bass like bazookas, exploding hearts open peeled backwards into one bouquet of manic laughter from the pit of your chest. 

Xylyn is a cherished figure and friend in our jazz community; born on Earth, one stones throw west from the palpitating heart of downtown Portland, Oregon. 

A forager for chanterelles, she was raised on the farm in Newberg with Grandma. When Grandma died they lost the old farmhouse, red and white and alive in the decaying cherry walnut orchards. Grandma lives in Noble Pioneer Cemetery now, Xylyn in Southwest Portland. 

As a band leader, Xylyn’s musical visions unfold and sprout behemoth architecture dimly lit, oozing spirits from the gills as it gasps for it’s first breath beneath thumps quantized in fractals. She propels a soloist or a broken poet off cliffs into jupiter’s hurricane eye. 

She plays with cats like George Colligan, like Ron Steen, like anybody making big nasty music to be hurt and healed by in this wet crow city.

Xylyn Hathaway’s heart and music exude peace and play and oozing spirits, dancing between us, around us, below the violent ocean dismembered by big old stones.”

– David Barber