Eli Winter, Mike Baggetta

Mike Baggetta is a player of immense subtlety across all dimensions, working with an impressive palette of tones distilling Robert Fripps loopscapes with hints of John Fahey.-The Wire, UK ...A terrific player, capable of weirdly elegant fretwork, shivery Tom Verlaine-esque tones, freeform freakouts and crunchy fuzz, shifting from one zone to another with a naturalness and ease.-Aquarium Drunkard Eli Winter: Here, the Chicago-based wunderkindan accomplished writer with storytelling bonafides beyond the guitarmerges the mythos of his native Texas with jazzy, explosive bombast, like a cowboy on DMT. Pitchfork Eli Winters second turn as bandleader unfolds like a sky bleeding exhaust fumes, alternating pedal steel waltzes and jazz-burnt fuzz bombs. The record starts with an ecstatic riff on a Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell tune and doesnt really let off the gas. NPR