2 foot yard

2 Foot Yard was a songwriting collective. It began as Carla’s own personal experiment in what one could make with just a violin and a voice coming from a single body. Soon, she invited Shahzad and Marika to join her. With an instrumentation that conjured both chamber group and rock band, they planted their little garden in the fertile cracks between art song and pop song.

They made two albums: Carla Kihlstedt – 2 Foot Yard (Tzadik) and 2 Foot Yard – Borrowed Arms (self-released).

2 Foot Yard is:

MARIKA HUGHES – CELLO, VOICE
SHAHZAD ISMAILY – DRUMS, GUITAR, VOICE
CARLA KIHLSTEDT – VIOLINS, VOICE