In Philadelphia we get our instrumental improv fix from Slipping Into Sublimity. Up in Cambridge, MA, they’ve got Club d’Elf – an ever changing, jazzy, dubbed-out hodgepodge [...]
Club d’Elf’s revolving cast of genre-splicing virtuosos get submolecular onstage and on disc. Musicians gather in a circle around Mike Rivard’s pulsing electric or acoustic [...]
“One can read Blake and have read Milton, Shakespeare, I mean everything. He can be considered the anthologizer of British Literature. Talk about New Criticism at its finest; how Eliot […]
Question: What do The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, and Club d’Elf have in common? Answer: more than you might think, according to Club d’Elf bassist and bandleader Mike Rivard, who [...]
Thursday, February 22: Bassist Mike Rivard (a/k/a Micro Vard) was ahead of the curve in anticipating that DJ culture and the neo-hippie funk/jam-band scene had more in common than they […]
Sometimes, regardless of style, you can feel a sense of community in a piece of music. As I let the rough mixes of Club d’Elf’s As Above (Live Archive) drift […]
Terrence McKenna used to speak about the “alien machine elves” one could meet in certain circumstances that could introduce one to the realms of universe(s) the usual conscious world [...]
The groove runs deep and long on As Above (Live at the Lizard Lounge), a 2-disc set from Club d’Elf. Voyaging through realms of electronica, ethnic percussion, and dirty funk, […]
Club d`Elf, for those of you who’ve never heard of them, is a live electro/rock/jazz outfit from Massachusetts fronted by veteran bassist Mike Rivard. These guys effortlessly blend dub, [...]
A week ago Thursday Club d'Elf celebrated both the release of its debut disc, As Above: Live at the Lizard Lounge (Live Archive), and three years of regular performances at […]