Book of Silk (album)

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.

Reception
Reviews were uniformly positive, with critics noting the more introspective and entirely instrumental turn (save for the closing lullaby).

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, arr. Orton)

Personnel

 * Mark Orton – guitar, banjo, dobro
 * Carla Kihlstedt – violin, viola, voice
 * Rob Burger – accordion, piano, prepared piano, toy piano, field organ, celeste
 * Bryan Smith – tuba, euphonium
 * Zeena Parkins – harp

Song use
"March of the Smallest Feet" appeared on the documentary A Fierce Green Fire (2012).

"The Longest Night" was used as the background music for the flash game Tri-Achnid by Edmund McMillen.