Comfort Music: Mathew Sage, Chaz Prymek & Jeremy Cunningham, Dustin Laurnezi

Comfort Music, every Thursday
Doors open at 7pm, show starts promptly at 7:30pm
No cover (donations encouraged and appreciated!)
**No Alcohol is permitted at Comfort Station**

Chaz Prymek & Matthew Sage

Matthew Sage is an educator, publisher, artist and musician living in Chicago. He records sounds as “M. Sage” and participates in various other solo and group recording projects, including Visit with Chaz Prymek. He runs Patient Sounds, a private press record label and book publisher.

Chaz Prymek is a musician from the mountain west. He plays as Lake Mary, as well as in groups including Visit, Nevada Greene and more. Prymek’s Lake Mary project has seen releases on Patient Sounds, Scissor Tail Editions, Wounded Knife, and more.

Together, Prymek & Sage perform improvisatory americana, ambient pastoralia, and minimalist free music for acoustic and electric instruments.

Jeremy Cunning & Dustin Laurenzi

Chicago improvisers Jeremy Cunningham (drums) and Dustin Laurenzi (saxophone/electronics) share a common fascination with melody, sound and rhythm that has brought them together in countless configurations since their first meeting in 2012. Collaborations with guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Matt Ulery, saxophonist Nick Mazzarella, and other leading forces in Chicago’s improvised music community have highlighted Cunningham and Laurenzi’s empathetic playing and personal approaches to their instruments, however the transparency of the duo setting allows these two like-minded musicians’ voices to shine even more directly.

Patiently building improvisations around melodies, speech samples, and sequences, the duo makes use of various electronics to create spontaneous compositions out of improvised frameworks. Their sound is informed by the rich history of their collective experience performing jazz, folk, post-rock, and beat music.