Book of Silk (album)
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| Released | August 10, 2004 | |||
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| Length | 52:03 | |||
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Book of Silk is the fourth album of Tin Hat Trio. It is a modern chamber music work, encompassing jazz in the Django and Grappelli vein with a haunting, acoustic soundscape that might have served as a film score.
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz | (positive) [1] |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| BBC | (positive) [3] |
| Pitchfork | 7.8/10 [4] |
| PopMatters | {positive} [5] |
Reviews were uniformly positive, with critics noting the more introspective and entirely instrumental turn, save for the closing lullaby. That final track, with lyrics by Mike Coykendall, was a response to the death of guitarist Mark Orton's wife Lauren in a rafting accident.[6]
Track listing
[edit]- "The Longest Night" – 3:54 (Orton)
- "The Clandestine Adventures of Ms. Merz" – 2:20 (Burger)
- "Compay" – 4:52 (Kihlstedt)
- "Invisible Mobile " – 4:45 (Orton)
- "March of the Smallest Feet" (Kihlstedt) – 3:58 (Kihlstedt)
- "Hotel Aurora" – 3:38 (Orton)
- "Osborne Avenue" – 3:34 (Burger)
- "Elliott Carter Family" – 3:52 (Parkins / Tin Hat Trio)
- "Things That Might Have Been" – 4:26 (Burger)
- "Red Hook Stoop" – 4:48 (Burger)
- "Same Shirt, Different Day" – 1:55 (Burger)
- "Pablo Looks Back" – 1:09 (Kihlstedt)
- "Light Black from Pole to Pole" – 2:49 (Kihlstedt)
- "Lauren's Lullaby" – 4:12 (Orton)
- "Empire of Light" – 2:59 (Orton / Coykedndall [sic], arr. Orton)
Personnel
[edit]- Mark Orton – guitar, banjo, dobro
- Carla Kihlstedt – violin, viola, voice
- Rob Burger – accordion, piano, prepared piano, toy piano, field organ, celeste
- Bryan Smith – tuba, euphonium
- Zeena Parkins – harp
Song use
[edit]"March of the Smallest Feet" appeared on the documentary A Fierce Green Fire (2012).[7]
"The Longest Night" was used as the background music for the flash game Tri-Achnid by Edmund McMillen.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Gottschalk, Kurt (2 Oct 2004). "Tin Hat Trio: Book of Silk". All About Jazz. Archived from the original on 23 October 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ Johnson, Zac. "Book of Silk". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ Marsh, Peter (2004). "Tin Hat Trio Book of Silk Review". BBC Music. Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ Zwickel, Jonathan. "Tin Hat Trio Book of Silk". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 11 June 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ Cibula, Matt (11 Nov 2004). "Tin Hat Trio: Book of Silk". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 11 June 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ Richardson, Derk (May 2005). "Foreign Cinema" (PDF). Acoustic Guitar. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
- ^ "A Fierce Green Fire Soundtrack (2012) OST". Ringostrack. Archived from the original on 11 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ "Tri-achnid". Newgrounds. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
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