The Cedar Presents
MATT GOLD & DUSTIN LAURENZI with Alpha Consumer
Friday, August 7, 2026 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
All Ages
Standing
$17 Advance, $22 Day of Show
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about this show
Dustin Laurenzi and Matt Gold, key collaborators in the Chicago creative scene and with genre-spanning artists such as Bill Callahan and Makaya McCraven, step forward on Devotional Fade (We Jazz Records) with a major artistic statement, a product of extended improv sessions that capture the duo’s hypnotic interplay. This is the sound of two of Chicago’s most vibrant instrumental voices listening deeply, communing in sound. An incomparable Twin Cities trio of highly sought-after sidemen, Alpha Consumer, opens the night.
Matt gold & dustin laurenzi
Matt Gold and Dustin Laurenzi present Devotional Fade, a collaborative record of electroacoustic rhythmic improvisations – equal parts meditation and dance, released on We Jazz Records, 24th April. Laurenzi and Gold, key collaborators in the Chicago creative scene and with genre spanning artists such as Bill Callahan and Makaya McCraven, step forward here with a major artistic statement, a product of extended improv sessions capturing the duo’s hypnotic interplay. This is the sound of two of Chicago’s most vibrant instrumental voices listening deeply, communing in sound.
Recorded in Laurenzi’s attic studio, Devotional Fade emerged from a series of weekly sessions over the course of a single month. The duo kept the tape rolling continuously each day and selected a number of immersive sonic worlds to present, oscillating between patient, sacred minimalism and wild, dancefloor-worthy combustion.
alpha consumer
The members of Alpha Consumer have played music with Bon Iver, The National, Jenny Lewis, John Prine, Arcade Fire, Taylor Swift, Big Red Machine, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Ed Sheeran, The Notwist, The Lone Bellow, Bonny Light Horseman, Bruce Hornsby, Anais Mitchell, The Suburbs, Mumford and Sons, Sandra Bernhard, Hiss Golden Messenger, Phil Cook, Fruit Bats, Suzuki, Mouse on Mars, Brother Ali, Eyedea, Swamp Dogg, Tim Berne, John Medeski, Vernon Reid, Mark Guiliana, Tony Malaby, David King, Shazad Ismaily, Ethan Iverson, Craig Taborn, Anthony Cox, Ron Miles, Evan Parker, Reid Anderson, members of Prince's New Power Generation, and probably some other folks they can't think of at the moment. The members of Alpha Consumer have played music on 5 continents at countless storied venues, and on Saturday Night Live, the Tonight Shows with Conan and Jay Leno, Letterman, Fallon, Colbert, Ellen, Later with Jools Holland, and the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, as well as in the hallowed halls of MOMA, Walker Art Center, MIA.
The members of Alpha Consumer have also been playing their own music for the last 20 years or so, and will continue to do so till the wheels come off.