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Mark Orton is the guitarist in the chamber jazz group <a href="spotify:artist:5qTWHmoWrGvTBCtAfR48j6">Tin Hat Trio</a> and is also a professional recording and sound engineer who has worked on sessions with <a href="spotify:artist:3SONlwqLIP2GtaMh9pLYe5">Bill Frisell</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3gkJ7lXtLpE4KauFHpk2vK">John Zorn</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:4q1q53aTfhk0k63Ob9zdhH">the Lounge Lizards</a> and engineered the sound at the Knitting Factory for a couple of years. <a href="spotify:artist:6cLEWhEKQl6nAvgr60M7zC">Orton</a> plays banjo, lute, Dobro, lap steel, and electric guitar with his other group, San Fransisco's <a href="spotify:artist:2BTNsfWLbizqYjeJ90H8vS">Old Joe Clarks</a>, and has composed scores for independent films like Beverly Wachtel's Just Noticeable Difference. In the late '90s, he co-founded the <a href="spotify:artist:5qTWHmoWrGvTBCtAfR48j6">Tin Hat Trio</a> with accordionist <a href="spotify:artist:7106JMHJxV5jS84aegmR8N">Rob Burger</a> and violinist <a href="spotify:artist:3YCyK8NZhGV3lFNX12DfA9">Carla Kihlstedt</a>. The group's music is a unique blend of structure, improvisation, and contemporary classical, with folk, world, and jazz elements. The <a href="spotify:artist:5qTWHmoWrGvTBCtAfR48j6">Tin Hat Trio</a>'s recording debut, Memory Is an Elephant, came out in early 1992 on Angel Records, and Helium followed in spring 2000. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi
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