ALORA CRUCIBLE is a trio performing experimental and modern transcendental music. Composer Toby Driver is joined by Timba Harris and Ana Cristina Pérez Ochoa to create sophisticated and transformative soundscapes unlike anything heard before. The instrumentation makes use of violin, synthesizers, hammered dulcimer, guitar, environmental sounds, voice, and world percussion.

ALORA CRUCIBLE's second album, Oak Lace Apparition, has just been released on the UK-based label House of Mythology

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Ana Cristina Pérez is a writer and musician from Morelia, Mexico, based in Connecticut. In her sonic explorations, she combines field recordings, poetry and synthesizers, creating from a space between language, sound and story. She has collaborated music and sound for audiovisual projects and performance, and as a writer she has collaborated in works of Ludovico Ensemble, Bloodmist, Marina White Raven, MV Carbon and Charlemagne Palestine, and others.

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.

Timba Harris is an American violinist, trumpet player, and composer. His long list of collaborations includes Amanda Palmer, Frank Ocean, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, John Zorn, SunnO))), Gyan Riley, Peter Garland, Sort Sol, and many others. his playing and orchestral arrangements can be found on recordings throughout the experimental music world and on video games and film. Harris has performed in theaters, halls, clubs, and festivals in over 45 countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. He has been based in several locations during his career, including Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Seattle, New York, England, and France.

Listen to the previous album, Thymiamatascension:

Alora Crucible and Toby Driver live in PDX, summer 2023

"Synaxarion of John Abject" live in Willems, France, 2022

"Cenote Vacío" live at Lunasa Cascadia Festival, 2023