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Article: From the Inside Out

Raising Vision and Voice

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 4, 2014

Decades ago, Archie Shepp and Sun Ra were among the first musicians to expand their vision for the human voice beyond the traditional verse-chorus-verse song structure. Today, through digital sampling and other technology, musicians incorporate and manipulate the human voice in ways that even these two iconoclasts might not recognize. At the same time, the profound ...

Article: Interview

Daniel Bennett: The Bear Truth

by Ludwig vanTrikt
July 24, 2012

Whether considered a member of Generation X or Y, saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist/composer and bandleader Daniel Bennett's career certainly is indicative of how many young artists' careers are ascending with the advent of the internet. But Daniel has a measured cynicism towards balancing live performance with the wonders of tech.Moreover what is also refreshing about this young ...

Article: Interview

Intervista a Mike Rivard - Il capo elfo

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 21, 2011

I Club D'Elf di Mike Rivard sono uno dei segreti meglio protetti della scena musicale americana. Un gruppo dalla formazione sempre variabile, che sa improvvisare in maniera eccellente, attorno a trame ipnotiche che si cibano di groove, dub, psichedelia, esotismi vissuti nel giusto modo, cioè in profondità e in coerenza con le culture del mondo. In ...

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Article: Album Review

Club d'Elf: Electric Moroccoland / So Below

Read "Electric Moroccoland / So Below" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 13, 2011

Even in our far-reaching and cluttered modern musical culture, it seems safe to suggest that there is no other band quite like Club d'Elf, a floating riverboat gamble with a fluid cast of contributors--keyboardist John Medeski, guitarists Reeves Gabrels and Duke Levin, Mat Maneri on electric viola, turntablist Mister Rourke, and many others among them--steered by ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Voices Instrumental in Jazz

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 10, 2011

Natacha AtlasMounqalibaSix Degrees Records2010 Vocalist Natacha Atlas seems to embody the modern musical millennia: She was born in Brussels and raised in one of its Moroccan suburbs; her compositions and singing reach into and crisscross storied European and Arabic musical traditions. Primarily co-written ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

John Medeski, Mellotrons and A Mountain of Majoun

by Chris May
March 31, 2011

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. ...

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News: Recording

Club d'Elf: New Albums & Tour

March 16, 2011

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 ...

News: Interview

The Either/Orchestra turns 25 on December 17, 2010!

August 31, 2010

For a quarter century, the Massachusetts-based ten-piece E/O has been exploring the borders of jazz, redefining what it means to be a “big band," expanding the palette of the jazz combo and building bridges between yesterday's jazz and tomorrow's. Founder/leader Russ Gershon's background and sensibility intertwine jazz with decades of American popular music; the group's travels ...

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Parhapsody

By Mike Rivard

Label: Kufala Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Disco 1: 01. Intro; 02. Sin Gas; 03. Perhapsody; 04. Life Of The Mind; 05. Amazigh Prelude; 06. Berber Song; 07. Goblin Garden; 08. The Tingler; 09. Hungry Ghosts - Disco 2: 01. Cave Man; 02. That Is My Voice; 03. Salvia Pt. 1; 04. Salvia Pt.2; 05. Jar Or Hair; 06. Softly; 07. Send

Article: Album Review

Club D’Elf: Parhapsody

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 27, 2007

Il Club D’Elf di Mark Rivard continua imperterrito la sua opera di destrutturazione e dilatazione della musica improvvisata trance con questo ottimo album doppio dal vivo che gli amici della etichetta indipendente e progressive Kufala mettono prontamente sul mercato. In questo caso ci troviamo di fronte ad una versione allargata della band (che è comunque un’entità ...