Moth Wranglers

Moth Wranglers is a collaborative venture formed in 1998 between Chris Xefos, and LD Beghtol. With Beghtol in Brooklyn and Xefos in San Francisco meant their collaboration evolved through use of technology: email, files sharing, and mobile telephony to link geographical and conceptual gaps. Guest musicians on Moth wranglers' two CDs, Never Mind the Context (Magnetic, 2001) and Never Bette (Magnetic, 2004) include: Victor Krummenacher and Jonathan Segel, Ken Stringfellow, Stephin Merritt and Claudia Gonson, Dudley Klute, Alison Faith Levy, Christopher Ewen, Doug Hilsinger of Bomb (3), and others. Beginning in Summer 2009, Moth wranglers began an indefinite period of "rest," releasing material from their archives.