Carla Kihlstedt

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Name = Carla Kihlstedt
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Background = solo_singer
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Instrument = Vocals, violin, organ, percussion, guitar, bass harmonica
Years_active = 1998-present
Genre = Alternative rock, avant-garde music, experimental
Occupation = Musician
songwriter
Label = The End Records
Associated_acts = Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Tin Hat
Charming Hostess
2 Foot Yard
Stolen Babies
The Book of Knots
Cosa Brava
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Carla Kihlstedt, a violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (now renamed Tin Hat), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and The Book of Knots. Other musical projects include 2 Foot Yard, Charming Hostess and Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii. She has also worked occasionally on projects with Tom Waits and Fred Frith, and recorded numerous albums as a guest or session musician. Kihlstedt has studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Discography

Charming Hostess

*1999 - "Eat"
*2004 - "Sarajevo Blues"
*2005 - "Punch"

Tin Hat

*1999 - "Memory Is an Elephant"
*2000 - "Helium"
*2002 - "The Rodeo Eroded"
*2004 - "Book of Silk"
*2007 - "The Sad Machinery of Spring"

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

*2001 - "Grand Opening and Closing" (reissue 2006)
*2003 - "Live"
*2004 - "Of Natural History"
*2005 - "The Face" DVD
**with Shinichi Momo Koga
*2007 - "In Glorious Times"

2 Foot Yard

*2003 - "2 Foot Yard"
*2008 - "Borrowed Arms"

The Book of Knots

*2004 - "The Book of Knots"
*2007 - "Traineater"

Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii

*2007 - "Minamo"

As a guest or session musician

*1998 - "12 Minor" - Ben Goldberg
*1999 - "California" - Mr. Bungle
*1999 - "Blue" - Third Eye Blind
*1999 - "Pokey in the Bobo" - Baby Snufkin
*2000 - "American Pi - Austin Willacy
*2001 - "This Ungodly Hour" - Mumble & Peg
*2002 - "Alice" - Tom Waits
*2002 - "Trilectic" - Jewlia Eisenberg
*2004 - "I'm Gonna Stop Killing" - Carla Bozulich
*2004 - "Timelines" - Lesli Dalaba
*2005 - "" - Tommy Lee
*2005 - "Love Songs" - Peter Garland
*2006 - "There Be Squabbles Ahead" - Stolen Babies
*2006 - "The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact" - Ben Goldberg
*2006 - "" - Tom Waits
*2007 - "The Happy End Problem" - Fred Frith
*2007 - "A Distant Youth" - Wu Fei
*2007 - "A Handful of World; Kafka Songs" - Lisa Bielawa
*2007 - "Two Rooms of Uranium Inside 83 Markers" - Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra!
*2008 - "Unsquare" - Maybe Monday
*2008 - "Diana and James" - Greg Copeland

External links

* [http://www.kihlstedt.net/ The UN-official Carla Kihlstedt web site]
* [http://www.independenteye.org/audio/hh/eye78.ram Interview with Carla Kihlstedt from Hitchhiking Off the Map radio program] (RealAudio file; click to listen)
* [http://www.bowed.org/006/006.mp3 Guest host of Bowed Radio - Episode 006] (mp3 format)
* [http://www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com/ Sleepytime Gorilla Museum official site]
* [http://www.tinhattrio.com/ Tin Hat Trio official site]
* [http://www.2footyard.com/ 2 Foot Yard official site]