2006

Boston Phoenix

Mike Rivard and Club d'Elf finally rehearse

- JON GARELICK | October 4, 2006

The scene was not atypical for a Thursday night at the Lizard Lounge: a mess of instruments including guitars, electric and acoustic bass, the three-stringed Moroccan instrument called the sintir, trap drums, and percussionist Jerry Lea... (read the full article)


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AudAud

Club d’Elf - Now I Understand - Accurate

- Paul Pelon IV

Eight years on the assembly line and Club d’Elf finally grant us what we’ve been waiting for, a studio release!!!! With a mixture of DJs, Jazz, Rock, Soul and solid groove artists, Now I Understand is more of an announcement now tha... (read the full article)


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Boston.com

'The music of dreams' is finally a reality

Club d'Elf's first studio album was an 8-year project

- By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent | November 5, 2006

Eight years. Ninety players. Hundreds of shows. Infinite possibilities. That, in a nutshell, is what Club d'Elf bandleader Mike Rivard was facing when he began sifting through tapes to assemble the celebrated Boston collective's first-e... (read the full article)


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The Wire

The persistence of Club D'Elf

The Wire - Oct 18, 2006

Eight years in the making, "Now I Understand" is surrealistic music for the macabre Club D’Elf’s debut studio CD is the sound of a Dali painting. Turntables chirp under the surface of churning and hypnotic bass and drums. Electric g... (read the full article)


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Jambands.com

Defining Club d'Elf

Jambands Nov 21, 2006

- Mike Greenhaus

Club d'Elf may technically refer to collective of likeminded musicians, but, when boiled down to its essentials, the group is in actuality a personification of Mike Rivard. Since organizing Club d'Elf for a series of gigs at Boston’s Lizard Lounge ... (read the full article)


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newsreview.com

newsreview.com - Oct 12, 2006

Club d'Elf: Now I Understand (Accurate Records)

- By Miles Jordan

The psychedelic cover art and the brain-like maze image on the disc itself alert one to the fact that this is an unusual record. Indeed it is. Club d’Elf is the brainchild of bassist Mike Rivard, who enlisted a pile of t... (read the full article)


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The Run-Off Groove

The Run-Off Groove edition #126 - Sept 25, 2006

Club d'Elf Now I Understand (Accurate Records)

- John Book

If you want to hear a band who does it right, may I suggest Club D'Elf, whose Now I Understand (Hi-N-Dry/Accurate) is an album where you do not know what's coming next, even after three or four listens. The group, based out of Massachus... (read the full article)

LIsten Up Denver

Listen Up Denver

Club d'Elf Now I Understand (Accurate Records)

- Sept 28, 2006

The brainchild of Boston bassist Mike Rivard, Club d'Elf is a genre-shattering collective that merges jazz, hip-hop, electronic music, worldbeat and more with the help of collaborators ranging from DJ Logic to onetime David Bowie associate Reeves Gab... (read the full article)


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Alibi.com

Alibi.com - Dec 6, 2006

Club d'Elf Now I Understand (Accurate Records)

- Amy Dalness

Smooth jazz is a genre in need of a major image makeover. Now I Understand is like the final episode of "What Not To Wear: The Music Edition." Club d'Elf enter the show as simple jazz musicians and leave glowing with a new, hip sound atop the straigh... (read the full article)


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Transformonline

Transform Online / Now I Understand

- Ben Taylor

With a multi-faceted, genre-spanning album like this, it’s hard to know where even to begin describing it. For starters, Club d’Elf is the Boston-based collective lead by bassist Mike Rivard aka Micro Vard. He’s done time with all kinds of folk... (read the full article)


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Dig - Boston's Weekly

Club d'Elf

Now I Understand

- Michael Brodeur

Dig - Boston's weekly

Mike Rivard’s Club d’Elf has been steaming up empty pint glasses in the confines of Cambridge’s Lizard Lounge off and on for nearly 10 years now, incorporating a seemingly endless roster of collaborators and tunneling indiscriminately through t... (read the full article)

All Music Guide

Club d'Elf

Now I Understand

- Sean Westergaard

All Music Guide

After seven double-CD releases of live material (!), Club d'Elf finally drop their first studio album, eight years in the making. They're still plying their patented world fusion/avant-garde jazz/dub/trance chillout music and the m.o. is still basica... (read the full article)

Tom Hull on the web

Tom Hull on the web: Now I Understand

Club D'Elf: Now I Understand (1998-2006 [2006], Accurate): I can't say as I understand, but at least I'm intrigued. This is a Boston-based group, with a core membership of one (bassist Mike Rivard), three (website also lists drummer Erik Kerr and oud... (read the full article)


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