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An evening of experimental - improvisational and ephemeral music featuring Mike Baggetta - Eli Winter & Luke Callen/The Nunnery (duo)"Eli Winter's 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 doesn't really let off the gas." — Lars Gotrich, NPR
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.” His trio features Chicago improvisers Sam Wagster of Fruit Bats (pedal steel guitar) and Tyler Damon of Circuit des Yeux (drums), with performances at prestigious music festivals like Primavera Sound and Big Ears, and collaborations 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.
“Mike Baggetta makes stealthy, mysterious music …trying to do something personal with collective improvisation without ever getting in the way of beauty.”
-New York Times
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, guitarist Mike 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 and is an endorsing artist for Koll Guitars, Benson Amps, D’Addario Strings and Reunion Blues cases.
Luke Callen and The Nunnery (Sarah James Elstran) are two musicians who make their creative homes here in Eau Claire, WI - normally playing their own sets or music - Odd Folk/Strange Country and Dream Pop respectively. They will be performing together for a rare live performance of one single improvised piece that blends Luke's American Primitive Guitar with Sarah's live looping.
Doors open @ 6:30pm. Show starts at 7pm. Tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to another person.
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Eaushift, 615 Graham Avenue,Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States
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