Crescent Moon & Andrew Broder will perform a rare, high-vibrational set to celebrate the release of their collaborative album Eulogy. They will interweave their sonically rich, emotionally raw songs with extended improvised beat passages and exploratory improvising from deVon Russell Gray and Davu Seru on keys and drums, respectively.

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Alexei Moon Casselle, aka Crescent Moon, is a longtime presence in the Twin Cities underground, working at the intersections of spoken word, hip-hop, and experimental collaboration. He has been involved with projects including Oddjobs, Kill The Vultures, Roma di Luna, and Mixed Blood Majority, and he has toured extensively alongside Atmosphere and Eyedea & Abilities. His performances are voice-forward and narrative-driven, shaped by restraint, intensity, and years of live work.

Andrew Broder has dedicated the better part of his life to carving out a singular path in music and art. A lifelong resident of Minneapolis, MN, Andrew has done time as a cutting battle DJ, a challenging and thoughtful improviser, a soundtrack composer, a working sideman, a producer, a remixer, a beat-maker, a poet, a beauty creator, a brutal noisemonger, and—above all—a fearless, restless, and provocative songwriter. His work is a study in surprise. As Fog, he redefined the turntable as a compositional tool, and his subsequent contributions to avant hip-hop, rock, jazz, and noise have been equally engaging and envelope-pushing. He has released records on renowned indie labels—such as Ninja Tune, Lex, and Totally Gross National Product—and worked with an incredibly wide-ranging cast of artists, including Bon Iver, Poliça, Marijuana Deathsquads, Dua Saleh, FPA, Armand Hammer, Serengeti, The National, and Dave King.

Davu Seru is gaining an international reputation as a free jazz drummer. He has worked with numerous improvising musicians including Milo Fine, Andrew Lafkas, Jaron Childs, Charles Gillett, Dean Magraw, Jack Wright, Paul Metzger, Elliot Fine, Evan Parker, Rafael Toral, Wendy Ultan, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Stefan Kac, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jim Baker, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, David Boykin, Dean Granros, Nicole Mitchell, and Harrison Bankhead. Seru appears on the record labels Insides Music, Shih Shih Wu Ai, Emanem, Locust, Roaratorio and Clean Feed.

Is deVon Russell Gray a divinely guided multimedia social justice activist or a pantheistic audial alchemist? Central to his creative practice is starting from a place of "I know nothing" when approaching any new composition, performance, or creative endeavor. In his downtime, he reluctantly participates in the commonplace mixed economy, feeling frustrated by its limitations and yearning for something different. In his uptime, he creates exceptional art. In terms of recent accomplishments, Gray's improvisation trio (featuring Nathan Hanson on saxophones, Davu Seru on percussion, and Gray on piano) released their debut album, WE SICK, on Innova in 2023. Additionally, Gray made his mark as a composer with the lead single on Lara Downes' latest album, Love At Last (Pentatone), which reached number one on the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts. Most recently, he received his second composer fellowship from the McKnight Foundation, an esteemed recognition administered by the American Composers Forum.