Carla Kihlstedt

Carla Kihlstedt
Carla Kihlstedt performing with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum in Austria in November 2007.
Background information
Genres	Alternative rock, avant-garde music, experimental
Occupations	Musician songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, violin, organ, percussion, guitar, bass harmonica
Years active	1998–present
Labels	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 is an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania currently living in Oakland, California.^{[citation needed]}

She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (now renamed Tin Hat), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Book of Knots and Causing a Tiger. 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.^{[citation needed]}

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
• 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

Leslie Dalaba, Fred Frith, Eric Glick Rieman & Carla Kihlstedt

• 2003 – Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt

The Book of Knots

• 2004 – The Book of Knots
• 2007 – Traineater
• 2011 – Garden of Fainting Stars

Carla Kihlstedt & Shahzad Ismaily

• 2004 – Flying Low

Carla Kihlstedt, Fred Frith & Stevie Wishart

• 2005 – The Compass, Log and Lead

Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii

• 2007 – Minamo
• 2009 – Kuroi Kawa ~ Black River

Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi & Dan Rathbun

• 2008 – Ravish and Other Tales for the Stage

Cheer-Accident

• 2009 – Fear Draws Misfortune

Cosa Brava

• 2010 – Ragged Atlas

Causing a Tiger

• 2010 – Causing a Tiger
• 2011 – How We Held Our Post

Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi

• 2011 – Still You Lay Dreaming- Tales for the Stage, II

As a guest or session musician

• 1998 – 12 Minor – Ben Goldberg
• 1999 – Half-wit Anthems – Deadweight
• 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
• 2003 – Rybi Tuk – Už Jsme Doma
• 2003 – Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt – Erik Glick Rieman Group
• 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
• 2008 – Diana and James – Greg Copeland
• 2009 – Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air – Fred Frith
• 2010 – Eye to Ear III – Fred Frith

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