Moroccan-dosed dub-jazz collective Club D'Elf with guests Jamie Saft, Danny Blume & Mister Rourke, return to The Falcon with "Fire In The Brain" Pre-Halloween Celebration!
"...the lovechild of Pink Floyd and George Clinton, dropped in Marrakesh...some deeply psychedelic music." - Marlon Bishop, WNYC
"One of the most inventive and ever-changing bands in all of new jazz. There is simply not another band like Club dโElf on the planet." - Russ Davis, Jazz America
"Crushed between the borders of Morocco, jam band land and the kingdom of avant-garde jazz lies Club dโElf...James Brown-meets-Sun-Ra." - Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald...
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Moroccan-dosed dub-jazz collective Club D'Elf with guests Jamie Saft, Danny Blume & Mister Rourke, return to The Falcon with "Fire In The Brain" Pre-Halloween Celebration!
"...the lovechild of Pink Floyd and George Clinton, dropped in Marrakesh...some deeply psychedelic music." - Marlon Bishop, WNYC
"One of the most inventive and ever-changing bands in all of new jazz. There is simply not another band like Club dโElf on the planet." - Russ Davis, Jazz America
"Crushed between the borders of Morocco, jam band land and the kingdom of avant-garde jazz lies Club dโElf...James Brown-meets-Sun-Ra." - Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald
Jamie Saft (piano, organs, analog synthesis)
http://www.jamiesaft.com/
Saft's stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills
have been featured with the Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, the B-52's, Laurie Anderson, Bobby Previte, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Jerry Granelli, Holly Palmer, Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postisos, Elysian, Fields, Black Beatle, Antony and the Johnsons, Chocolate Genius, JoJo
Mayer's Nerve, E-Z Pour Spout, Cuong Vu, Chris Speed Trio Iffy and the Groove Collective.
Danny Blume
http://dannyblume.com/
Grammy Award-winning guitarist Blume has performed and recorded with Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy, world artist Falu, John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and Jill Sobule among others.
Mister Rourke
http://misterrourke.com/
Mister Rourke has blurred the line between performance artist, hired gun, studio musician and producer . His extensive range of projects include: The Cleveland Jazz Festival's Jazz Meets Hip Hop, Cultural Constructions IV at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, and โTurntables as an Instrumentโ a DJ workshop, developed for middle schools, non-profit organizations, festivals and colleges.
www.ClubdElf.com
The Club D'Elf groove melts boundaries, finding rave kids dancing alongside Arabic audiences in traditional garb. The band's bi-weekly residency at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA is the stuff of legend and a laboratory for its improvisational style. Their studio CD, "Electric Moroccoland/So Below", drew glowing reviews from PRI's The World, Voice Of America, and Afropop Worldwide for its bold synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk, rising to #1 on the Relix chart.
With Mike Rivard and drummer Dean Johnston at the core, guitars, turntables, Fender Rhodes, laptops, horns, tablas and a myriad of exotic instruments flow in and out of the mix. The band has made Moroccan trance influences an essential part of the mix in "Fire In The Brain (Live at Berklee)".
Rivard's command of the Moroccan sintir, a 3 string bass lute used by the Gnawa, a mystical Sufi brotherhood of trance-healers, is in evidence on a John McLaughlin cover as well as the group's rendition of a traditional gnawa song. Derived from ancient sources, trance forms the central core of the Club d'Elf aesthetic,unifying the various genres the band has absorbed.
Video of Club d'Elf at Relix: www.relix.com/media/video/club-d-elf-sand
Video of Club d'Elf with John Medeski: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-eEmetGk2Y
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