2024: Alora Crucible – Oak Lace Apparition (House of Mythology) Atmospheric, composed semi-ambient and transcendent music featuring hammered dulcimer and violin.
As composer, producer, guitarist, vocalist, and hammered dulcimerist.
Through the mist, a peak of icy water. Where can I find you, pelagian bird? (hammered dulcimer, electric guitar, synths, violin)
Amidst Ewdendrift a Corridor (hammered dulcimer, electric guitar, synths, violin)
I Destination (hammered dulcimer, acoustic guitar, synths, voices, violin)
2021: Alora Crucible – Thymiamatascension (House of Mythology) Atmospheric, semi-ambient music inspired by 1970s-90s cassette-based New Age.
As composer, producer, guitarist, vocalist, keyboardist.
Livanomancy in Jasper (electric guitar, synths, violin) (09;25)
Synaxarion of John Isangelous (electric guitar, synths, violin) (06;01)
Synaxarion of John Abject (electric guitar, synths, violin) (07;29)
2024: Toby Driver – Raven, I Know That You Can Give Me Anthing (Ice Level Music) More crushingly emotional ballads
As composer, lyricist, guitarist, bassist, vocalist, producer, and recording engineer.
Raven, I Know That You Can Give Me Anything (guitar, drumset, fretless bass, synth, organ, and voices) (05;38)
Shankha (guitar, drumset, fretless bass, synth, organ, and voices) (04;45)
Talismans To Keep Me (guitar, drumset, bass guitar, organ, and voices) (07;19)
2022: Toby Driver – Parapuká Vená (Ludovico Ensemble) Duet for cimbalom and soprano, commissioned by Ludovico Ensemble, Boston. The world premiere was held at Tufts University, October 5, 2022.
As composer.
2022: Toby Driver – Three Peaks (Ice Level Music) A pop/new age single inspired by Oystein Sevag and Sting.
As composer, producer, engineer, guitarist, fretless bassist, hammered dulcimerist, vocalist, keyboardist.
Three Peaks (guitar, bass, hammered dulcimer, synths, vocals, drums) (15;42)
2019: Toby Driver – N . G . H . 4 . M . (Ice Level Music) A sad song about winter.
As composer, producer, guitarist, vocalist, drummer, keyboardist.
N . G . H . 4 . M . (Never Gonna Happen 4 Me) (guitar, synths, vocals, drums) (15;42)
2018: Toby Driver – They Are The Shield (Ice Level Music) A suite of violin-led experimental ballads, created in part with support from Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY
As composer, producer, arranger, lyricist, guitar, bass, synths, piano, organ, voice
Anamnesis Park (violins, synthesizers, guitar, drumset, voice) (10;34)
Boys on the Hill (organ, Polysix, guitar, drumset, voice) (07;39)
2014: Toby Driver – Ichneumonidae (Ice Level Music) A chamber piece written for a Butoh performance by Michelle Morinaga
As composer, producer, arranger, guitar, synths
Pale Hesychasm (violin, guitar, synths, vibraphone and other percussion) (12;54)
Supercrescentus of Eros (violin, guitar, synths, vibraphone and other percussion) (15;38)
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (violin, guitar, synths, vibraphone and other percussion) (02;58)
2005: Toby Driver – In the L..L..Library Loft (Tzadik) Four large-ensemble pieces using conceptual and experimental techniques.
As composer, producer, arranger, lyricist, guitar, bass guitar, piano, prepared piano, percussion, bowed tuning forks, voice
Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca) (with a large guitar and percussion ensemble with all rhythms focusing on a bell-curve) (guitars,
bass guitar, contrabass, violins, trombones, horn in F, trumpet, drumsets (2), auxiliary percussion, voice) (15;14)
The Lugubrious Library Loft (with each instrument being performed by four hands/two people: the prepared piano, the bowed
tuning forks, and even the vocals performed being sung into another person's mouth using the other person's tongue and lips to
form words while the air and vibrations come from the original singer) (prepared piano four-hands, bowed tuning forks four
hands, bass guitar four-hands, voice two-mouths) (09;03)
Brown Light Upon Us (with the ensemble performing in a distant room down the hall behind closed doors) (guitar, bass guitar,
drumset, choir) (17;58)
Eptaceros (built upon the extended technique trumpet playing of F. Graham) (piano, cellos, guitar, extended tech. Trumpet,
voice) (10;59)
2021: Kayo Dot – Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike (Prophecy Productions) Through-composed progressive metal paying homage to mid-90s European gothic artists.
As composer, co-producer, recordist, arranger, guitar, bass, synths, percussion, programming, voice
The Knight Errant (guitars, basses, synths, drums, vocals) (08;20)
Brethren of the Cross (guitars, basses, synths, drums, vocals) (08;19)
Void in Virgo (The Nature of Sacrifice) (guitars, basses, synths, drums, vocals) (09;10)
Spectrum of One Colour (guitars, basses, synths, drums, vocals) (04;56)
Get Out of the Tower (guitars, basses, synths, drums, vocals) (07;05)
The Necklace (guitars, basses, synths, drums, vocals) (08;29)
2019: Kayo Dot – Blasphemy (Prophecy Productions) A narrative in eight (8) parts based on the novel by Jason Byron
As composer, co-producer, arranger, guitar, bass, synths, piano, organ, percussion, programming, voice
2016: Kayo Dot – Plastic House on Base of Sky (Flenser Recordings) Pieces inspired by the music of Japanese composer Susumu Hirasawa
As composer, producer, arranger, co-lyricist, guitar, bass, synths, programming, voice
2013: Kayo Dot – Hubardo (Ice Level Music) An epic narrative in eleven parts for a larger ensemble, based on the story by Jason Byron
As composer, co-producer, co-arranger, bass guitar, synthesizers, piano, rhodes, percussion, voice
The Black Stone (guitar, bass guitar, alto saxophone, violin, synthesizers, organ, drumset, voice) (10;39)
And He Built Him a Boat (guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers, drumset, choir, voice) (07;28)
Passing the River (samples, guitar, synthesizers, rhodes, alto sax, trumpet, drumset, auxiliary percussion, voice) (10;12)
The Wait of the World (guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers, clavinet, trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, rhodes, drumset, voice) (14;23)
2012: Kayo Dot – Gamma Knife (Ice Level Music/Antithetic) Sacred expressions from the ecclesiastical to the Satanic built on meditation, mysticism, 11-note chords and obliquely-timed beats
As composer, producer, arranger, co-lyricist, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers, piano, church bells, voice
2011: Kayo Dot – Stained Glass (Hydra Head) Originally composed as a collaborative piece for Peter Hopkins Miller's film, Stained Glass, expanded here with further-developed ideas
and larger ensemble; a synaesthetic rendering of a Luciferian journey across colored windows in a darkened cathedral
As composer, producer, arranger, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers, bells and chimes, processing, samples, voice
2010: Kayo Dot – Coyote (Hydra Head) A long-form piece focusing on reviving the chorus-bass sound of early 80s post-punk combined with the trumpet/cornet and alto sax
unisons hinted at by Ornette Coleman on “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” in a hyper-complex through-composed form. Based on the story by Yuko Sueta.
As composer, co-producer, arranger, bass guitar, voice.
Abyss Hinge 1: Sleeping Birds Sighing in Roscolux (bass, trumpet, alto sax, clavinet, synth, organ, violin, guitar, drums (03;46)
Abyss Hinge 2: The Shrinking Armature (bass, trumpet, alto sax, synths, violin, drums, crotales, gongs, timpanis, voice) (13;40)
Cartogram Out of Phase (bass, trumpet, alto sax, organ, violin, drumset, crotales, beels, gongs, voice) (03;11)
2008: Kayo Dot – Blue Lambency Downward (Hydra Head) Compositions in response to Hurricane Katrina, built on a low-woodwind ensemble taking inspiration from West African jazz
As composer, arranger, guitar, bass guitar, lyricist, synthesizers, piano, clarinet, percussion, voice
Blue Lambency Downward (guitars, bells, synthesizers, drumset, voice) (10;00)
2006: Kayo Dot – Don't Touch Dead Animals (Holy Roar) A rare Kayo Dot single featuring Mia Matsumiya on vocals, recorded especially for a split with Bloody Panda.
As composer, arranger, guitarist
2006: Kayo Dot – Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire) A collection of songs for large band focusing on three guitars, drones, and extended technique
As composer, producer, arranger, co-lyricist, guitar, clarinet, piano, electronics, percussion, voice
2003: Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik) A discovery of through-composed form, utilizing the layers of guitars and volume more commonly found in metal along with orchestral
instruments.
As composer, producer, co-arranger, guitar, bass guitar, electronics, processing, cello, voice
Free-improvised music in collaboration Jeremiah Cymerman and Mario Diaz de Leon (5049 Records, 2022) (As bassist and co-writer)
Free-improvised music, produced by and featuring Jeremiah Cymerman, with Mario Diaz de Leon (5049 Records, 2020) (As bassist and co-writer)
Free-improvised music, produced by and featuring Jeremiah Cymerman, with Mario Diaz de Leon (5049 Records, 2015) (As bassist and co-writer)
2020: Oixisha – Neverflesh Safary (Ice Level Music) Electronica inspired by downtempo and IDM artists of the UK scene.
As composer, producer, arranger, synths, field recording, samples, programming
2020: Oixisha – Fragmentation Garden (Ice Level Music) Electronica inspired by downtempo and IDM artists of the UK scene.
As composer, producer, arranger, synths, field recording, samples, programming
2022, Primal Architecture Records. Vaura is: Joshua Strawn, Kevin Hufnagel, and Toby Driver as bassist, synthesizerist, and mix engineer.
2019, Profound Lore. Vaura is: Joshua Strawn, Kevin Hufnagel, Toby Driver, and Charlie Schmid
2013, Profound Lore. Vaura is: Joshua Strawn, Kevin Hufnagel, Toby Driver, and Charlie Schmid
2012, WIERD Records. Vaura is: Joshua Strawn, Kevin Hufnagel, Toby Driver, and Charlie Schmid
2012: Tartar Lamb II – Polyimage of Known Exits (Ice Level Music) A long-form piece using Driver's characteristic method of phrase-driven abstract timing pioneered in Tartar Lamb 1 (2006-7),
this time focusing on rhythmic phrases led by processed extended-technique clarinet.
As composer, arranger, lyricist, bass guitar, synthesizers, voice
Polyimage of Known Exits, First Movement (bass guitar, alto saxes, synths, processed clarinet, bass clarinet, voice) (06;50)
Polyimage of Known Exits, Second Movement (bass guitar, alto saxes, synths, processed clarinet, bass clarinet, voice) (12;36)
Polyimage of Known Exits, Third Movement (bass guitar, alto saxes, synths, processed clarinet, horn in F, voice) (09;28)
Polyimage of Known Exits, Fourth Movement (bass, saxes, synths, clarinet, trumpet, violin, percussion, voice) (11;59)
2007: Tartar Lamb – Sixty Metonymies (Ice Level Music) A long-form composition using Driver's newly-developed technique of phrase-based conduction and response in a chamber setting.
As composer, arranger, conductor, lyricist, guitar, voice
Incensing the Malediction is a Lamb (violin, guitar, trumpet, percussion) (11;47)
A Lamb in Hand's Worth Two in the Ewe (violin, guitar, trumpet, percussion) (03;12)
The Lamb, the Ma'am, and the Holy Shim-Sham (violin, guitar, trumpet, percussion, synthesizers, voice) (16;38)
2018: Piggy Black Cross – Always Just Out of R . E . A . C . H . (Robotic Eclosion After Coming Hylozoic) (Ice Level Music) An exploration of impressionistic electronic body music
As composer, producer, arranger, guitar, synths, field recording, samples, programming
2009: Maudlin of the Well – Part the Second (Ice Level Music) Chamber-orchestral progressive rock re-imaginations of pieces from Driver's 2000 oratorio, “Six Trillion Miles Before the First,” based
on the epic poem by Jason Byron, and new pieces following the same aesthetic
As composer, producer, arranger, co-lyricist, guitar, bass guitar, voice
An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, The Revisitation of the Blue Ghost (guitars, organ, violins, bass
guitar, synthesizers, piano, drumset, auxiliary percussion, choir, voice) (10;56)
Another Excerpt: Keep Light Near You, Even When Dying (guitars, baritone guitar, organ, violins, cello, alto saxophones, bass
guitar, synthesizers, piano, drumset, auxiliary percussion, voice) (05;59)
Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder) (guitars, organ, violins, cello, alto
saxophones, bass guitar, synthesizers, piano, samples, drumset, auxiliary percussion, choir, voice) (11;50)
Binah Gevurah Hod Yesod.
2001: Maudlin of the Well – Leaving Your Body Map (Dark Symphonies) Driver's practice of dream-journaling and meditation led him to an enhanced ability to lucid dream, compose ideas in the dream, and
remember them upon waking. Contextualized here in progressive rock and chamber miniatures, part 2 of 2.
As composer, producer, co-arranger, co-lyricist, guitar, bass guitar, percussion, cello, contrabass, field recording, voice
2001: Maudlin of the Well – Bath (Dark Symphonies) Driver's practice of dream-journaling and meditation led him to an enhanced ability to lucid dream, compose ideas in the dream, and
remember them upon waking. Contextualized here in progressive rock and chamber miniatures, part 1 of 2.
As composer, producer, co-arranger, co-lyricist, guitar, bass guitar, cello, percussion, field recording, voice
The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qliphoth (guitars, alto saxophones, synthesizers, drumset) (07;57)
They Aren't All Beautifull (guitars, bass guitar, synthesizers, baritone saxophone, drumset, voice) (05;37)
1999: Maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible (Dark Symphonies) After making four demo tapes beginning in 1996, our favorite tracks from those were compiled to make this debut.