ARTIST | Mike Baggetta

Mike’s singular and very personal musical style seeks to blur the lines between composition and improvisation, while connecting a wide range of musical genres that influence him. He has earned accolades from the press that call this approach “…beguilingly atmospheric…” (Time Out New York) and that “Baggetta’s music is quietly transgressive… Even when he plays a lot of notes, his playing can sound almost static, as though ideas were being snagged out of thin air.” (Hartford Courant)

Baggetta has had the pleasure to work all over the world with a wide range of visionary musicians across many generations including David Torn, Mike Watt, Jim Keltner, Nels Cline, Donny McCaslin, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Dominique Eade, Ches Smith, Tyshawn Sorey, Psychic Temple, Julian Lage, Jon Irabagon, Greg Tardy, Jerome Harris, Cameron Brown, David Wax Museum, Tom Harrell, Joseph C. Philips’ Numinous, Imani Uzuri, Conrad Herwig, Billy Mintz, Eivind Opsvik, Jeremy Udden, and Ruth Brown among many others. Baggetta is an Endorsing Artist for Stringjoy Strings, Koll Guitars and Fryette Amplification.

Appears on:

BIG005 | Mike Baggetta / Jim Keltner / Mike Watt | Wall of Flowers - acoustic and electric guitars, live processing

BIG011 | mssv | Main Steam Stop Valve - guitars 

BIG013 | TIN/BAG | Evening Hawks - guitar

BIG019 | Junatime | Remember the Magic - electric guitar (2,12)

BIG022 | Mike Baggetta, Jim Keltner, Mike Watt | Everywhen We Go - acoustic and electric guitars

BIG026 | Alicia Walter | Right Noise - electric guitar (1-4,8)

BIG027 | mssv | Human Reaction - guitars, lead vocals

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