MiLkBabY w/ Dave Cipriani

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Friday, August 20, 2004

Chicago\'s MiLkBabY blends rockin\' guitar organic handdrums, primal chants and ambiant keyboards to create a swirling improvised sound that ranges from soft, beautiful and lovely to chaotic, noisey and frightening.

A guitarist/songwriter/composer who hates to be pigeonholed, Dave Cipriani plays original solo guitar pieces that draw on American folk and country blues guitar traditions, as well as Classical, Middle Eastern, Chinese, and North Indian Classical traditions. Cipriani studied with the late jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd and also studies in India with Pandit Barun Kumar Pal, the senior disciple of Ravi Shankar. He is also a talented songwriter and performer, frequently compared to the likes Jeff Buckley, Radiohead and U2.

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