Boston is a long way from Morocco…and it isn’t. Just listen to Club d’Elf’s latest 2-CD set of Moroccan trance, dub, rock, and improvisational roots music. The Club [...]
Producer Mike Rivard is the prime mover behind this expansive double CD and its round robin of players, billed as Club d’Elf. The music reaches the spacier heights of jazz […]
The first disck of Club d’Elf’s Electric Morocco Land/So Below (Face Pelt) combines North African trance rhythms with state-of-the-art science-fiction keyboards (aloha John Medeski), [...]
Check out this crazy adaptation of Moroccan grooves with New York psychedelia outfit Club D’Elf. The group first came together in 1998 through composer and bassist Mark Rivard. The band [...]
Published: 2011/05/25 Club d'Elf Hits The Top1. Club d'Elf Electric Morrocoland/So Below 2. Dub Is A Weapon Vaporized 3. Brushfire Stankgrass One For the Salamanders 4. Great [...]
Morocco is the country that had fired his musical imagination for more than a decade: In a strikingly vivid dream, Mike Rivard felt himself swimming upwards in the air as […]
Club d'Elf is the brainchild of Boston-based bass guitarist Mike Rivard. It's an improvisation-driven project (a jam band, if you will) whose floating membership includes some of [...]
For only their second studio release after 13 years of regular gigging, Boston ensemble Club d'Elf unloaded a whopper, an honest-to-goodness double album, or rather, two full-length CDs [...]
Club d’Elf, a self-described “Moroccan drenched electronic (sometimes acoustic) dubbed-out funk” collective, is nothing if not ambitious. Over the course of its thirteen year [...]
If you dig deep, entrancing songs, dig this: Electric Morocco Land, the new album from Club D’Elf, the Boston-based ensemble led by Mike Rivard. Featuring Moroccan rhythms, instruments, and [...]