2 Foot Yard

The San Francisco-based trio 2 Feet Yard is well known because of its daring and pioneering way with classical sounds: when violinist/vocalist Carla Kihlstedt, percussionist/guitarist Shahzad Ismaily, and cellist/vocalist Marika Hughes aren’t fusing them with visceral, pounding rock or energetic pop, they’re exploring compositional boundaries by hitching e e cummings poems or other unorthodox works with their brief avant-garde pieces. Kihlstedt may be the many visible person in the outfit on her behalf prior collaborations using the similarly fearless John Zorn and her component in another SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA clothing, the all-acoustic Tin Hat Trio. However the réamountés of Hughes and Ismaily don’t skimp on significant credits, either. Hughes takes on within the art-funk trio Crimson Pocket and sings within the a cappella trio Charming Hostess, both which possess released discs on Zorn’s respectable Tzadik label, and Ismaily, an American of Pakistani descent, offers made up for film and live theatre and caused Laurie Anderson. Collectively, their music in 2 Feet Backyard — the name is really a nod to a natural gardening storyline within town confines — is definitely swaggering and exciting, artful but hardly ever inaccessible.