“…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
“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
“Guitarist Mike Baggetta bends notes, and his genre, to make music that sounds like life.”
-Premier Guitar
“Mike Baggetta is a genre-blurring guitar hero…at the forefront of an army of guitar innovators.”
-JazzTimes
“…a kind of post-Frisellian sonic explorer … with his wild whammy-bar articulations, ambient looping and rippling arpeggios … full of subversive surprises”
-Slate Magazine
In addition to leading the post-genre power trio -mssv- (with Stephen Hodges on drums and Mike Watt on bass) along several US tours and multiple album releases, and releasing 2 full length albums with Watt and legendary drummer Jim Keltner, all on BIG EGO Records, Baggetta has had the pleasure to make music all over the world with a wide range of visionary musicians across many generations including David Torn, Nels Cline, Psychic Temple, Jeff Coffin, Henry Kaiser, Petra Haden, Rev. Fred Lane, Joseph C. Philips’ Numinous, Imani Uzuri, Viktor Krauss, Donny McCaslin, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, J Mascis, David Wax Museum, Julian Lage, Jon Irabagon, Jerome Harris, Eivind Opsvik, Jeremy Udden, and Ruth Brown among many others. Baggetta is an Endorsing Artist for Koll Guitars, Benson Amps and D’Addario Strings.