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When not playing in his full-time gig with Wilco, New Jersey-via-Chicagovia- Brooklyn's Mikael Jorgensen crafts pitch-perfect pop songs under the moniker Pronto. On All Is Golden, the group's Contraphonic debut, Pronto unleashes a '70s-inspired tome that serves as a record of action. It is the sound of waking up and moving on, of cross-country trips to California, of black days and blue nights giving way to better times and warmer promises. It's AM-radio songsmith filtered through the speakers of a modern-day prism, with contributions from members of Iron & Wine, Antibalas, and Califone. Pronto now consists of Mikael Jorgensen, Greg O'Keeffe, Erik Paparazzi (Cat Power), and Tunde Oyewole (Childballads). When their respective musical duties don't take them elsewhere, Pronto plans to play in support of All Is Golden throughout 2009. "Much as Wilco did in its pre- Jorgensen incarnation--think AM-- Pronto takes some of the best 1970s rock influences--a bit of Steely Dan, some of the whimsical keyboard of Stevie Wonder, some horns from the Rolling Stones, and the bittersweet songwriting of Randy Newman--and combines it with a decidedly 21st century cynicism." -- The Brooklyn Paper