Mike Baggetta, Eli Winter, & Baby Arms at Looseys

Lauded by press and peers alike, Mike Baggetta has become known, through his seemingly constant touring over the last several years and surprising collaborations, for his boundless commitment to his complete artistic vision through guitar, voice and electronics.This latest tour, following a west coast leg with his new band Casa Sueño with John Herndon and Mike Watt, focuses entirely on his solo songs for guitar, voice and electronics, exploring this new music up close and at length for its debut recording.In addition to leading the band mssv, with drummer Stephen Hodges & bassist Mike Watt, through several full length releases, national tours, a few international shows, and some limited releases with special guests Nels Cline, Petra Haden and J Mascis, Baggetta has also worked with Jim Keltner, David Torn, Psychic Temple, John Herndon, Joseph C. Philips’ Numinous, Imani Uzuri, Jeff Coffin, Henry Kaiser, Rev. Fred Lane, Viktor Krauss and Ruth Brown among many others. He can be heard on the BIG EGO, Joyful Noise, ECM, New Amsterdam and Fresh Sound record labels.
Eli Winter is a composer, self-taught guitarist, essayist, and Houston native. His music synthesizes aspects of folk, rock, jazz, and devotional music, maintaining a waggish disregard for genre constraints emblematic of Chicago, his adopted hometown. His new album, A Trick of the Light, is an elegantly crafted and vibrant collection that finds the bandleader at the height of his powers: the dazzlingly intense arrangement of Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell’s “Arabian Nightingale” that opens the album, Winter’s muscular, dreamy originals, and his daring arrangement of Carla Bley’s “Ida Lupino.” He has collaborated with a wide range of artists live and on record, including Yasmin Williams, jaimie branch, Caroline Rose and Ryley Walker. His concert history spans prestigious music festivals like Primavera Sound and Big Ears, pristine listening rooms, museums, university chapels, laundromat bars, and small rooms in shotgun houses.
Baby Arms is the experimental project of Liza Goldstein. They weave a tapestry of guitar textures into compelling soundscapes that sometimes give way to tender lyricism. Fans of Grouper and Emily Sprague will find a lot to love in their music.