released January 16, 2023

Erez Dessel: piano
Tim Daisy: drums and percussion

All compositions by Tim Daisy (ASCAP) and Erez Dessel
Recorded on December 10th, 2022 at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago,IL
Recorded by Ralph Loza
Mixed and Mastered by Todd Carter bel_ Air Studios
Special thanks to Ralph Loza, Kate In, Todd Carter and the Experimental Sound Studio
Photo by Tim Daisy

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releases January 16, 2023

Erez Dessel is an improviser, pianist, composer, and educator. After winning multiple Downbeat Student Music Awards, Dessel moved to Boston to study at the New England Conservatory of Music , where he worked with a host of musical luminaries including Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, and Jason Moran. While in Boston he performed regularly, including at the Celebrity Series festival Jazz Along the Charles, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Wally’s Jazz Club. Dessel’s work also expands beyond the piano, he received a grant from NEC’s Entrepreneurial Musicianship department to score and record an independent film soundtrack (Missing First Period) and produced the multidisciplinary concert Mosaic as a part of the Nova Fellowship program. After graduating from NEC in 2020, Dessel moved to Savannah, GA to accept the position of music director at the Savannah Music Festival Jazz Academy, Savannah’s first and only free after-school youth jazz program. While in Georgia, he maintained an intense artistic practice, including presenting multidisciplinary piano works at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center, Georgia Southern University, and throughout the Atlanta improv scene. He currently lives in Chicago, where he continues to work on music centered around exploring improvisation, graphic notation, and polyrhythmic structures. He frequently works with cassette tapes, and is currently developing ways to paint with the piano using charcoal, pastel, paper, and linen.

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. He was a member of the Vandermark 5 from 2002 to 2010.

He has also performed with Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Mars Williams, Steve Swell, Jaimie Branch, Katherine Young, Fred Lonberg-Holm, James Falzone, Russ Johnson, Katinka Kleijn, Elizabeth Harnik, Christof Kurzmann, Mark Feldman, 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.