Club d'Elf
Club d'Elf are a Boston-based collective centered around electric bassist and guitarist Mike Rivard and a core of main conspirators. After years as one of Boston's most in-demand bass players (the Story, Morphine, Either/Orchestra), Rivard has made many musical contacts, and uses them to call in an extremely wide variety of guest musicians/club members. The band's self-described concept is "live dub-trance-groove excursions, incorporating electronica, hip-hop, funk, and free jazz as well as Moroccan and West African trance traditions." The bottom line is the groove, but there's always far more going on than your basic jam band. Core members Jerry Leake and Brahim Fribgane add world music colorings, and guests range from Moroccan Gnawa musicians to avant guitarist Reeves Gabrels to country picker Duke Levine and beyond (John Medeski, Mat Maneri, Joe Maneri). After a two-year residency at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Club d'Elf released As Above: Live at the Lizard Lounge, a double-disc collection culled from six shows in November of 2000. A series of seven double-disc sets of live material followed over the next several years before they released Now I Understand, their first studio offering, in 2006. Many years in the making, their second studio set, Electric Moroccoland/So Below, arrived in 2011. Live at Club Helsinki was recorded in 2012 but wasn't released until early 2017.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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You Never Know
Jazz - Released by Face Pelt Records on 1 Apr 2022
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Electric Moroccoland
Jazz Fusion & Jazz Rock - Released by Face Pelt Records on 9 Feb 2018
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Now I Understand
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 13 Jan 2017
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Live - Vassar Chapel, 2/26/01 (Live)
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 13 Jan 2017
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Live - Tonic, N.Y.C. 5/26/04 (Live)
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 13 Jan 2017
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Gravity All Nonsense Now - Live at the Lizard Lounge - 5/08/03 (Live)
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 13 Jan 2017
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Night Sparkles (Live at the Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA) (Live)
Jazz - Released by Face Pelt Records on 8 Feb 2019
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Perhapsody Live 10.12.06 (Live)
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 29 May 2007
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100 Years of Flight - Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, Ma - 12/18/03 (Live)
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 13 Jan 2017
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Fire In The Brain (Live At Berklee)
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 21 Apr 2023
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Masada (Live At Chillhouse Studio)
Jazz - Released by Face Pelt Records on 8 Dec 2023
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Live 4/20/00 N.Y.C. - Knitting Factory (Live)
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 13 Jan 2017
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Level up Your Soul (For Sandman)
Acid Jazz - Released by Face Pelt Records on 3 Jul 2019
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Zeed Al Maal
World - Released by Face Pelt Records on 18 Mar 2022
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Now Open Your Eyes
Jazz - Released by Face Pelt Records on 25 Feb 2022
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The Club d'Elf Remixes
Dance - Released by Dubs Alive on 12 Nov 2012
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Shadow's Shift
Africa - Released by Face Pelt Records on 1 Feb 2023
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