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Club D'elf Live @ Club Helsinki w/ John Medeski part 1 ClubdElf 105 views
CLub D'elf Live @ Club Helsinki w/ John Medeski Set 1 Part 3 ClubdElf 283 views
Club D'elf Live @ Club Helsinki Set 1 Part 2 ClubdElf 377 views The guys are gettin warmed up in this one...lots more music from this show on the way soon!
Mogador by Club d'Elf ClubdElf 1,039 views Music video of song Mogador from new CD Electric Moroccoland/So Below (Face Pelt 2011). Edited by Toshi Hoo.
Mogador Edit v09 ProRes 3 5Mbps ClubdElf 21 views
Club d'Elf Tokyo 12.18.10 HIghlights (set 1) ClubdElf 1,615 views Club d'Elf Shibuya, Tokyo Japan John Medeski Setven Bernstein David Fiuczuynski Mike Rivard Dean Johnston
12 18 2010 s01t01 Bass Beat box 1 e ClubdElf 42 views
Berber Rais orchestra, Tiznit, Morocco 12.20.09 Pt. 9 ClubdElf 3,714 views Asslaf Ceremonial Hall. Gala dinner for the University of the Middle East Sister Cities Civic Participation & Leadership Initiative (CPLI) on Dec 20, 2009 in Tiznit, Morocc...
Berber Rais orchestra, Tiznit, Morocco 12.20.09 Pt. 8 ClubdElf 1,153 views Asslaf Ceremonial Hall. Gala dinner for the University of the Middle East Sister Cities Civic Participation & Leadership Initiative (CPLI) on Dec 20, 2009 in Tiznit, Morocc...
Berber Rais orchestra, Tiznit, Morocco 12.20.09 Pt. 7 ClubdElf 2,221 views Asslaf Ceremonial Hall. Gala dinner for the University of the Middle East Sister Cities Civic Participation & Leadership Initiative (CPLI) on Dec 20, 2009 in Tiznit, Morocc...

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Club d'Elf is more than a band, it's a universe. Circling about bassist/composer Mike Rivard (Morphine/Either-Orchestra/Guster), D'Elf is a constellation of top musicians from the jazz, DJ, rock & world music scenes of Boston & NYC who get in the groove and proceed to blow it up. Every show features a new combination of players, sounds and ideas, so that fans come back over and over to hear their favorite D'Elf tunes constantly transformed. With Rivard and drummer Dean Johnston at the core, guitars, turntables, Fender Rhodes, laptops, horns, tablas and a myriad of exotic instruments flow in and out of the mix, along with guests such as John Medeski & Billy Martin, DJ Logic, Marc Ribot, Skerik, and Marco Benevento. Mind-expanding and booty-shaking at the same time, D'Elf's ever-changing music invites repeated listening.

Formed in 1998 by Rivard with the encouragement of Morphine's Mark Sandman, the music draws from a startlingly wide spectrum of styles, including jazz, hip hop, psychedelia, electronica, avant garde and dub. Under the tutelage of member Brahim Fribgane, from Casablanca, the band has made Moroccan trance influences an essential part of the mix. Audiences of all persuasions are drawn to Fribgane's mesmerizing oud stylings and Rivard's command of the Moroccan sintir, a 3 string bass lute used by the Gnawa, a mystical Sufi brotherhood of trance-healers. Derived from ancient sources, trance forms the central core of the Club d'Elf aesthetic, unifying the various genres the band has absorbed.

From Mount Fuji, Japan to the Festival Du Monde Arabe de Montreal, the intoxicating power of the D'Elf groove draws listeners in and melts away boundaries, finding rave kids dancing alongside Arabic audiences in traditional garb. The band's bi-weekly residency at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA is the stuff of legend and provided a laboratory for its improvisational style to emerge and develop. Its latest studio CD, Electric Moroccoland/So Below, drew glowing reviews from PRI's The World, Voice Of America, and Afropop Worldwide for its bold synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk, rising to #1 on the Relix chart. From ancient African talking drums to modern turntables, it represents the fullest manifestation of the band's One World/One Music aesthetic, including Gnawa legend Hassan Hakmoun singing Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love" in Moroccan Arabic.

Discography:
As Above: Live at the Lizard Lounge (2000) • Vassar Chapel (2001) • Athens, GA (2002)• NYC 420(2003) • Live: Tonic, NYC (2004) • Gravity All Nonsense Now (2005) • 100 Years of Flight (2005) • Now I Understand (2006) •
Perhapsody (2007) • Electric Moroccoland/So Below (2011)

Best Jazz Act, Boston Music Awards, 2007 • Best Jazz Act, Best of Boston, Boston Magazine, 2004 • Phoenix Editors and Readers Poll, 2001 • Best Jam Band, Phoenix Editors and Readers Poll, 2001 • Best DJ/Electronica Act, FNX Best Music Poll, 2001 • Best Cutting Edge Band, Best of Boston, Boston Magazine, 1998
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"One of the most inventive and ever-changing bands in all of new jazz...The songs are great, the playing superb, the variety obvious but the main thing is that the spirit of the music is so strong and unique. There is simply not another band like Club d'Elf on the planet." - Russ Davis, Jazz America

"'Electric Moroccoland/So Below'...masterfully mines a potpourri of global sounds and styles spanning, among others, Moroccan trance, dub-dosed funk, jazz fusion, hill country blues, and psychedelic rock." - Jonathan Perry, Boston Globe

"...an incredible series of jams...sustain(ing) an intense, mesmeric vibe throughout. Overall, this stuff is simply world-class fusion, with excellent production value to boot." - Mitch Myers, JazzTimes

"Crushed between the borders of Morocco, jam band land and the kingdom of avant-garde jazz lies Club d'Elf...James Brown-meets-Sun-Ra." - Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald

"Their music touches the present moment, and (their) experimentation (has) produced some prime musical fruits...the band is defined by its ability to flow between and fuse genres...a good group to see live."
- Eli Rumpf, Afropop Worldwide

"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...(Electric Moroccoland/So Below is) a double-decker sandwich of liberating chant and mesmerizing jam...(which) transports you into a scorching, sandy desert that bursts into vibrant music and sound."
- Chris M. Slawecki, AllAboutJazz.com

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