2 FOOT YARD – CARLA KIHLSTEDT/MARIKA HUGHES/SHAZHAD ISMAILY

Violin player and singer Carla Kihlstedt played with Tom Waits and John Zorn and she impressed audiences at the Bimhuis with Tin Hat and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. In the eccentric songs that she wrote for her trio 2 Foot Yard her violin playing coalesces with her flexible voice, which can sound like anything from a sultry nightclub singer to a frenzied Bjork. ‘It incorporates classical technique and punk roughness. It can go all over the place: toward tango, theatrical pop, or vague African and Eastern-isms’ (Washington Post).