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You know you've got a strange sort of magic going on when a scratchy vocal by Tom Waits (on the reprise of the hypnotic, chamber music meets French cafe and spaghetti western title track) is the least bizarre element. The trio of Rob Burger (accordion, piano, pump organ, marxophone, harmonica), Carla Kihlstedt (violin, viola), and Mark Orton (guitar, Dobro, banjo) offer a vision of what a chamber music group might sound like if they mixed a studio session for a Western film with a rhythmically diverse, often atonal classical excursion. The opening track "A Life in East Poultney" finds a banjo plucking over a droning violin as bells ring in the background. That same violin does a seductive dance over a plucky organ base and accordion harmonies on the title track, which evolves into the image of a train blowing harmonica steam across the land. "Scrap" rolls like a schizophrenic fiddle tune, and then the fiddling slows down into a mosey on the wacky and atonal "Sand Dog Blues." And by that point, when the craziness is just beginning, you're either tripping and enjoying or wondering who these three are and just why they think this is commercial music. The New Yorker put it best when it said their music is "a soundtrack for the kind of puzzling dream which leaves you sitting awake in the middle of the night." You will love it or loathe it, but you can't just shrug and ignore it.
© Jonathan Widran /TiVo
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Hans Wendl, Producer - Mark Orton, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Mark Orton, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Mark Orton, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Carla Kihlstedt, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Rob Burger, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Mark Orton, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Carla Kihlstedt, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Mark Orton, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Rob Burger, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Carla Kihlstedt, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Rob Burger, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Carla Kihlstedt, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Mark Orton, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Hans Wendl, Producer - Mark Orton, Composer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Tom Waits, Author - Mark Orton, Composer, Author, Producer - Tin Hat Trio, MainArtist - Beverly Wachtel, Author
(C) 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
Album review
You know you've got a strange sort of magic going on when a scratchy vocal by Tom Waits (on the reprise of the hypnotic, chamber music meets French cafe and spaghetti western title track) is the least bizarre element. The trio of Rob Burger (accordion, piano, pump organ, marxophone, harmonica), Carla Kihlstedt (violin, viola), and Mark Orton (guitar, Dobro, banjo) offer a vision of what a chamber music group might sound like if they mixed a studio session for a Western film with a rhythmically diverse, often atonal classical excursion. The opening track "A Life in East Poultney" finds a banjo plucking over a droning violin as bells ring in the background. That same violin does a seductive dance over a plucky organ base and accordion harmonies on the title track, which evolves into the image of a train blowing harmonica steam across the land. "Scrap" rolls like a schizophrenic fiddle tune, and then the fiddling slows down into a mosey on the wacky and atonal "Sand Dog Blues." And by that point, when the craziness is just beginning, you're either tripping and enjoying or wondering who these three are and just why they think this is commercial music. The New Yorker put it best when it said their music is "a soundtrack for the kind of puzzling dream which leaves you sitting awake in the middle of the night." You will love it or loathe it, but you can't just shrug and ignore it.
© Jonathan Widran /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:49:57
- Main artists: Tin Hat Trio
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Angel Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 2000 Angel Records ℗ 2000 Angel Records
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