S8E414 - David Torn 'What Means Solid, Traveller?' with Mike Baggetta
Fresh off a tour with his band mssv (Mike Baggetta, Mike Watt & Stephen Hodges), guitarist/songwriter Mike Baggetta brings us a record he received as a gift when he was in High School that changed the course of his musical life moving forward: the mindblowing 1996 release by guitarist, composer, and producer David Torn, 'What Means Solid, Traveller?'
Songs discussed in this episode: Network Of Sparks: The Delicate Code - David Torn; What It Feels Like For A Girl - Madonna; OK To Change - mssv; Willie The Pimp - Frank Zappa; Spartan, Before It Hit - David Torn; The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - David Bowie; Chemical Wire - fIREHOSE; Suyafhu Skin...Snapping the Hollow Reed, Spell Breaks With The Weather, What Means Solid Traveller - David Torn; Runnin' With The Devil - Van Halen; Are You Looking Up - Mk.gee; Such Little Mirrors, Tiny Burns A Bridge - David Torn; The Wagon - Dinosaur Jr; Gidya Hana - David Torn; Sita Ram - Alice Coltrane; Each Prince To His Kingdom Must Labor To Go, Particle Bugs @ Purulia Station, In The Sand Of This Day (I Will Not Be Free), In The Sand Of This Day ('til You Are Free), Elsewhere Now Than Waving - David Torn; Symphony No. 3 - Henryk Gorecki; On And On - mssv
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Mike Baggetta
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“…vintage twang in service of Americana-meets exploratory Jazz-psych…”
-Rolling Stone
“Baggetta is a player of immense subtlety across all dimension, working with an impressive palette of tones … distilling Fripp’s loopscapes with hints of John Fahey.”
-The Wire, UK
“Mike Baggetta makes stealthy, mysterious music … he’s trying to do something personal with collective improvisation without ever getting in the way of beauty.”
-New York Times
“Think pressure, combustion, power, and hissing clouds of sonic poetry, and you're in the right pipeline.”
-Premier Guitar
“…a kind of post-Frisellian sonic explorer … with his wild whammy-bar articulations, ambient looping and rippling arpeggios … full of subversive surprises, hellacious skronking, string-scraping and a general hornets’ nest of fuzz-toned dissonance”
-Slate Magazine
“Mike Baggetta is a genre-blurring guitar hero … at the forefront of an army of guitar innovators”
-JazzTimes
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It has been said that MIKE BAGGETTA is “a guitarist of slippery proficiency” (New York Times), that his performances are “totally compelling” (Jazz Journal, UK) and that “his melodic sense is truly beautiful.” (JazzReview.com)
Mike’s singular and very personal musical style seeks to blur the lines between song and solo, while connecting a wide range of musical genres that influence him. The press says this approach is “…beguilingly atmospheric…” (Time Out New York) and that “Baggetta’s music is quietly transgressive… Even when he plays a lot of notes, his playin… Read More