Book of Silk (album)

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Book of Silk
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 10, 2004 (2004-08-10)
Genre
Length52:03
Label
Producer
Tin Hat Trio chronology
The Rodeo Eroded
(2002)
Book of Silk
(2004)
La giusta distanza (The Right Distance)
(2007)

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.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz (positive) [1]
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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

  1. "The Longest Night" – 3:54 (Orton)
  2. "The Clandestine Adventures of Ms. Merz" – 2:20 (Burger)
  3. "Compay" – 4:52 (Kihlstedt)
  4. "Invisible Mobile " – 4:45 (Orton)
  5. "March of the Smallest Feet" (Kihlstedt) – 3:58 (Kihlstedt)
  6. "Hotel Aurora" – 3:38 (Orton)
  7. "Osborne Avenue" – 3:34 (Burger)
  8. "Elliott Carter Family" – 3:52 (Parkins / Tin Hat Trio)
  9. "Things That Might Have Been" – 4:26 (Burger)
  10. "Red Hook Stoop" – 4:48 (Burger)
  11. "Same Shirt, Different Day" – 1:55 (Burger)
  12. "Pablo Looks Back" – 1:09 (Kihlstedt)
  13. "Light Black from Pole to Pole" – 2:49 (Kihlstedt)
  14. "Lauren's Lullaby" – 4:12 (Orton)
  15. "Empire of Light" – 2:59 (Orton / Coykedndall [sic], arr. Orton)

Personnel

Song use

"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]

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