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The music of Club d'Elf flies through North African trance, glitchy turntablism, freeform improvisation, and rock psychedelia, but it's playfully altered states of musical consciousness [...]

Boston-based Club D’Elf describes itself as a “Moroccan-dosed psychedelic dub and jazz collective.” It is the sort of band that gives self-medication a good name, and it will [...]

Some CD's just get stuck in your player and this new double CD from Boston's Club d'Elf is a great case in point. There is enough beautiful, soulful, fascinating, infectious [...]

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with musicians Michael Rivard, Brahim Fribgane and Hassan Hakmoun about their work with ensemble Club d'Elf. It is a Boston-based group that performs variations on [...]

Club d’Elf “Sand” Here is a song from From Club d'Elf's latest release “Electric Moroccoland/So Below,” performed in the Relix boiler room.

Club d'Elf's first studio album, 2006's “Now I Understand,'' was eight years in the making, so waiting another five years for its sprawling 25-track, two-disc follow-up [...]

A Boston-based instrumental collective whose talented cast revolves mostly around the vision of bassist/founder Mike Rivard and drummer Erik Kerr, Club d'Elf is, to say the least, [...]

“The crux of Moroccan music is trance. Trance as a quality in music has always attracted me, whether it’s an extended James Brown cut, or something by Fela or Steve Reich. I’ve [...]

01. Is Electric Moroccoland your declaration of love to sintir and oud? More or less it’s a musical love letter to Morocco, and the sintir and the oud are featured. Since those instruments [...]

Even in our far-reaching and cluttered modern musical culture, it seems safe to suggest that there is no other band quite like Club d’Elf, a floating riverboat gamble with a fluid cast of [...]