Boston Sunday Globe
Boston Sunday Globe
November 22, 1998
City Weekly
ON THE RISE
Band's members, music in state of flux
Bassist Mike Rivard is a pro. He's worked with a long list of top names like Paula Cole, the Story, and Mark Sandman (of Morphine), to name a few. When it came time to start his own band, though, he faced a frustrating problem: How could he e... (read the full article)
Northeast Performer
Northeast Performer
September 1998
Club D'elf, 1st set
Lizard Lounge
Cambridge, MA July 30th, 1998
The "All Star Game" Effect - First observed in certain high-energy fusion groups of the '70s, this phenomenon typically occurs when a collection of highly talented individual musicians play together in an open ended format. Its results resemble that ... (read the full article)
Boston Magazine
Boston Magazine - August 1998
Best Of Boston
Band, Cutting Edge - Club d'Elf
The sound of the future is here. The band's deeply hypnotic trance-grooves combine jazz, world, and electronica. Bass wizard Mike Rivard, percussionist Jerry Leake, sampler Jere Faison and driving drummers J. Hilt and Erik Kerr preside over the jams,... (read the full article)
Boston Phoenix
The Boston Phoenix
July 24, 1998
Arts Section
JAZZ... The dub-wise jazz jamming experiments of Mike Rivard (aka Micro Vard) and his Club d'Elf night at the Lizard Lounge continue when the bassist invites special-guest keyboardist John Medeski (of Medeski Martin and Wood) and DJ Logic into the mi... (read the full article)
Soundboard Magazine
Soundboard Magazine
issue #5 May/June 1998
Sunday, March 24, 1998
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA
(By George Drake)
You knew it was a special evening as you walked down the stairs, and entered the main basement-cum-living room area of the Lizard Lounge, a club tucked away underneath the Cambridge Common restaurant in Cambridge Mass. Around for less than two years,... (read the full article)
Boston Phoenix
The Boston Phoenix
Thursday February 20, 1998
Arts Section
state of the art
Sandman Clubs Elf
"Music can serve as a springboard for alternate consciousness if you play long enough and get into a trance spot," explains bassist Mike Rivard. "And if it works for the audience, too --hey, even better."
Towards those ends... (read the full article)
Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
Living/Arts Section (Feb 7,1998)
Mike Rivard stages a jam at Lizard Lounge
(By Paul Robicheau)
CAMBRIDGE - Local bassist Mike Rivard envisioned Club d'Elf, an event staged at the Lizard Lounge Thursday, as a "live remix session" for rehearsed grooves - in the experimental style of Bill Laswell's avant-world label Axiom or New York's loft scene... (read the full article)
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