New CD Release on January 30, 2007

TIN HAT-THE SAD MACHINERY OF SPRING

With the release of its first CD for Hannibal/Rykodisc, The Sad Machinery of Spring, the internationally acclaimed band of genre-leaping musical adventurers known as Tin Hat (formerly Tin Hat Trio) begins a new chapter in its remarkable decade-long career.

Founded by composers and multi-instrumentalists Mark Orton, Carla Kihlstedt and Rob Burger in 1997, Tin Hat moves effortlessly between genres, creating a new kind of acoustic chamber music that melds elements of jazz, folk, classical, and various American and World roots music. The group's concert performances and recordings have earned widespread critical praise and an ever-growing legion of fans around the world.

When Rob Burger left the trio in 2004, Orton and Kihlstedt were faced with a daunting task of reinvention. As Orton explains it: "We knew we had huge shoes to fill, and that we'd miss Rob greatly. He and I grew up together, and we've both known Carla since she was a teenager." Of the musical intimacy and telepathic connection afforded by such long-standing friendships, Kihlstedt adds: "there's nothing that could possibly replace that history."