Tin Hat

Tin Hat

Tin Hat (formerly the Tin Hat Trio) is an acoustic chamber music group currently based in San Francisco. Their music combines many genres of music, including southern blues, bluegrass, neoclassical, eastern European folk music, and avant-garde.

Since its formation in 1997, the original Tin Hat Trio has often expanded its trio format by inviting other musicians to join them. All five of their CDs feature guests, among them Tom Waits and Willie Nelson as well as friends like clarinetist Ben Goldberg and harpist Zeena Parkins. Parkins appears on 2002's "The Rodeo Eroded" and 2004's "Book of Silk" and has performed live with the trio as the resident sound effects artist in their live music/silent film projects. Goldberg has been a frequent guest of Tin Hat Trio and contributed to both "Memory is an Elephant" and "The Rodeo Eroded".

When founding member Rob Burger (the trio's accordionist and pianist) left the trio in late 2004, Mark Orton and Carla Kihlstedt replaced him with both Goldberg and Parkins, presenting a new, though closely related, ensemble—the Tin Hat Quartet—for two short concert tours in the U.S. in January and April 2005. Equally at home playing jazz or classical, both musicians fit easily into the Tin Hat mold as evocative performers who blur the line between improvisation and composition. While on tour, they invited another musician to come under their hat, San Francisco's Ara Anderson—known as one of Tom Waits' favorite sidemen in recent years. Like the departed Burger, Anderson plays myriad keyed instruments as well as trumpet and glockenspiel, thus adding new colors and strokes to the already large canvas of Tin Hat's sound.

In [2005] Tin Hat Trio's song Fear of the South featured on the Everything Is Illuminated (film) soundtrack.

Discography

* "Memory is an Elephant" (1999, Angel)
* "Helium" (2000, Angel)
* "The Rodeo Eroded" (2002, Ropeadope)
* "Book of Silk" (2004, Ropeadope)
* "Everything is Illuminated Motion Picture Soundtrack" 2005
* "The Sad Machinery of Spring" (2007, Hannibal/Rykodisc)

External links

* [http://www.tinhat.org/ Official website for the Tin Hat Trio]


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