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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]