Wall of Flowers

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2019 studio album by Mike Baggetta

Wall of Flowers

Studio album by

Mike Baggetta

Released| March 2019[1]
Recorded| May 31 – June 1, 2017[2]
Studio| BIG EGO, Long Beach, CA[2]
Genre|

* Jazz fusion
* free jazz[3]

Length| 40:15
Label| BIG EGO RECORDS[2]
Producer| Chris Schlarb[2]

Wall of Flowers is an album by Mike Baggetta featuring Mike Watt and Jim Keltner.[4] The album has been described as "post-genre-improv-jazz-rock".[4]

The album was largely improvised[5] even though the trio of musicians had never played with each other before recording in 2017.[5] A conversation with Chris Schlarb of Big Ego Studios led to a discussion about the David Torn album Cloud About Mercury which Baggetta admired.[6] Baggetta learned that the artists on the album had not worked together previously and were simply "cold-called" by Torn so he jokingly suggested Schlarb call Watt and Keltner to join him for an album.[6] Schlarb made some calls[6] and soon Baggetta was joined by Watt and Keltner to record his Wall of Flowers.

Following the release of the album, Baggetta and Watt embarked on a ten-date March tour with Stephen Hodges substituting for Keltner.[4] The tour resulted in the formation of mssv, a live album (Live Flowers) and a studio album scheduled for 2020 release.[citation needed]

## Personnel

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* Mike Baggetta \- acoustic and electric guitars, live processing
* Jim Keltner \- drums and percussion
* Mike Watt \- electric bass guitar

Production

* Engineered by Arin Mueller[2]
* Mixed by Chris Schlarb and Devin O'Brien[2]
* Mastered by David Torn[2]

## References

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1. ^ "2019 BIG EGO Record Club". Big Ego Records. Archived from the original on March 28, 2018. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
2. ^ a b c d e f g "Wall of Flowers". Bandcamp. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
3. ^ Ensminger, David (October 22, 2019). "Mike Watt and the Art of Sublime Punk Invention". Houston Press. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
4. ^ a b c Maiuri, Ken (March 3, 2019). "Ken Maiuri's Clubland: Guitarist Mike Baggetta records and debuts a new album". Daily Hampshire Gazette. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
5. ^ a b Cohan, Brad (August 13, 2019). "Mike Baggetta: Genre-Blurring Guitar Hero". JazzTimes. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
6. ^ a b c Wildsmith, Steve (April 24, 2019). "Guitarist Mike Baggetta finds impromptu collaboration grows good 'Flowers'". The Daily Times. Retrieved October 26, 2019.

## External links

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* Wall of Flowers on Bandcamp
* baggetta + hodges + watt "wall of flowers album release tour" tour diary by Mike Watt