Club d’Elf is a Boston-based band led by bassist Mike Rivard. They’ve just released three two-CD live sets – recorded at the Knitting Factory in New York City in 2000, at Vassar [...]
A visit to a haunted house where you're served berries that taste metallic and let you see music as colors. Club d'Elf represents the continued emergence of electronic music in the live [...]
A groove-based band like Club d'Elf depend on varied textures and strong soloing to avoid monotony. That's why it's so remarkable that the band's three recent double CDs on [...]
In the first half of the 20th century, jazz musicians like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong toured with ever-morphing orchestras comprised of the finest players of the day. Mike Rivard’s [...]
Boston area bassist Mike Rivard has led a running jam at the Lizard Lounge for over five years now, which is an impressive tenure for such an exploratory project. Club d’Elf, as the [...]
Led by bassist Mike Rivard (formerly of Either/Orchestra, Morphine and the Story), Boston collective Club D’Elf begins in the gray area between Live Dead and Get Up with It and heads for [...]