Carla Kihlstedt

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Carla Kihlstedt
Genre(s)	Alternative rock Avant-Garde Experimental
Occupation(s)	Musician songwriter
Instrument(s)	Violin Vocals Organ Percussion guitar Bass Harmonica
Label(s)	The End Records
Associated acts	Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Tin Hat Charming Hostess 2 Foot Yard Stolen Babies The Book of Knots Cosa Brava

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.

Contents 1 Discography 1.1 Charming Hostess 1.2 Tin Hat 1.3 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 1.4 2 Foot Yard 1.5 The Book of Knots 1.6 Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii 1.7 As a guest or session musician 2 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Charming Hostess

• 1999 - Eat
• 2004 - Sarajevo Blues
• 2005 - Punch

[edit] Tin Hat

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 2 Foot Yard

• 2003 - 2 Foot Yard
• 2008 - Borrowed Arms

[edit] The Book of Knots

• 2004 - The Book of Knots
• 2007 - Traineater

[edit] Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii

• 2007 - Minamo

[edit] 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 - Tommyland: The Ride - 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 - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards - 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

[edit] External links

• The UN-official Carla Kihlstedt web site
• Interview with Carla Kihlstedt from Hitchhiking Off the Map radio program (RealAudio file; click to listen)
• Guest host of Bowed Radio - Episode 006 (mp3 format)
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum official site
• Tin Hat Trio official site
• 2 Foot Yard official site