Toby Driver

Toby Driver is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who navigates between genres. He is “a tirelessly inventive recording artist” (PopMatters) with a prolific career of over 20 years. His work–– impressionistic, architectural and emotionally vulnerable––has been described as “unlike any other” (The Quietus), displaying “A greater vision of how music can evoke feelings both grandiose and devastatingly intimate.” (Vice/Noisey). His multifarious projects share a sensitive and detail oriented composition ranging from the metaphysical to the avant-garde, and an insatiable search for the new: there's “absolutely nothing to compare it against.” (Echoes and Dust)

Alora Crucible, his most recent musical identity, explores transcendental instrumental music with Driver on guitar and hammered dulcimer in collaboration with violinist Timba Harris and keyboardist Ana Cristina Pérez. With their recent second album, Oak Lace Apparition, released on the enigmatic and elite House of Mythology label in the company of titans Ulver and Current 93, Alora Crucible has made a strong and enduring statement about this music's exalted place in Driver's diverse body of work. Simultaneously with that, Driver also released a new solo album of ballads, Raven, I Know That You Can Give Me Anything, and completed a yet-to-be-announced major work with his long-running outfit Kayo Dot, “one of the greatest and most exciting contemporary progressive/experimental/avant-garde bands going,” (Treblezine) showing that his reputation as “one of the most endlessly creative and thrilling band leaders” (Treblezine) is a well-earned one.

Toby has collaborated with artists like Trey Spruance (Mr Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3), John Zorn, Kevin Hufnagel (Gorguts), Gyan Riley, Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu), Peter Evans, Charlie Looker (Extra Life), Jeremiah Cymerman, Mario Diaz de Leon, and many others. He has performed at numerous major festival dates around the globe and has been commissioned by Ludovico Ensemble (Boston), Sacrum Profanum festival with Spoldzielnia Muzyczna (Kraków), Newspeak Ensemble (New York), Roulette Intermedium (New York), and others. He has worked with the prestigious record labels The Flenser, Hydra Head, Tzadik, Prophecy Productions, and House of Mythology.