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JuJu: In Trance
by Chris May
JuJuIn TranceReal World2011 This is the third album from guitarist Justin Adams and singer/ritti player Juldeh Camara, and, as the saying goes, third time lucky. Not that Soul Science (Irl, 2007) or Tell No Lies (Real World, 2009) were disappointing, only that the duo's visceral mix of ...
Garage A Trois: Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil
by Chris May
Garage A TroisAlways Be Happy, But Stay EvilRoyal Potato Family2011 The story of jazz/rock cominglings is a not a happy one, strewn, as it is, with compromise and the middle ground. But it does include some happy chapters, several of them set in the modern jam band ...
John Medeski, Mellotrons and A Mountain of Majoun
by Chris May
Club D'ElfElectric Moroccoland / So BelowFace Pelt Records2011 Boston-based Club D'Elf describes itself as a “Moroccan-dosed psychedelic dub and jazz collective." It is the sort of band that gives self-medication a good name, and it will reconfigure your synapses, in a good way, if you let it. ...
Club d'Elf: New Albums & Tour
Deep Trancing: The Hypnotic Grooves, Camel-Skin Bass, and Unifying Spirit of Club d'Elf The music of Club d'Elf flies through North African trance, glitchy turntablism, improvisation, and rock psychedelia, but it's playfully altered states of musical consciousness that truly guide the band. Witness founder Mike Rivard's first night in Morocco, the country that had fired his ...
Perhapsody Live 10.12.06
By Club d'Elf
Label: Kufala Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Intro/Bass Beatbox; Sin Gas; Perhapsody; Life Of The Mind; Amazing Prelude; Berber Song; Goblin Garden; The Tingler; Hungry Ghosts. CD2: Cave Man; That Is My Voice; Salvia Pt. I; Salvia Pt. II; Jar Of Hair; Softly; Sand.
"This is Our Music" Series Continues on April 16 in Brooklyn with Knucklebean, Club D'Elf and Jim Campilongo!
Any and all friends of sound are invited to attend “This Is Our Music II," the second installment in a monthly series at the Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “This Is Our Music II" is set for Wednesday, April 16 at 8PM. This month, the series welcomes the legendary Club d'Elf, from Boston, the incredible ...
Club d'Elf: Perhapsody Live 10.12.06
by Chris M. Slawecki
A floating ensemble in every best sense of the word, Club d'Elf is tethered to bassist Mike Rivard and the more or less house rhythm section from Rivard's extended residency at the Lizard Lounge, a progressive if not experimental music club in Boston. After releasing numerous live albums--the best laboratory for their mainly improvised, genre-munching music--they ...
Now I Understand
By Club d'Elf
Label: Accurate Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Introduction; Bass Beatbox; Hungry Ghosts; Quilty; Vishnu Dub; A Toy For A Boy; Luminous Things; What Would C T Hulhu Do? Now I Understand; And Shadow Saw The Gods; Wet Bones (Extended); Vision Of Kali; Just Kiddin'.
Club d'Elf: Perhapsody: Live 10-12-06
by Doug Collette
Perhapsody, the seventh in a series of live releases by Club d'Elf, contains extended tracks like “Salvia Pt. 1" and “Jar of Hair," where the music ebbs and flows with a passion derived from the spontaneity of the bandïs interactions. Meanwhile, the absolutely impeccable quality of the recording maintains that heat of the moment rather than ...
Club d'Elf: Now I Understand
by Chris M. Slawecki
About eight years ago, composer/bassist Mike Rivard began leading a “floating residency in Cambridge, Massachusetts, organized around the rhythm section, which pulsed behind a kaleidoscope of horn, keyboard, percussion and guitar players. After seven live releases, Rivard has finally shepherded his “ever-changing performance ensemble into its first studio album. No fewer than 25 musicians ...
