Club d'Elf featuring John Medeski at The Falcon

NEW RELEASE SHOW FOR Fire In The Brain (Live at Berklee)!!

Club d'Elf is an ever-shifting group fiercely dedicated to "the groove", evolving from bassist/leader Mike Rivard, covering a startling spectrum of styles, including jazz, hip-hop, electronica, avant-garde, prog-rock and dub.

Comprised of the most sought-after players from the music scenes of Boston & NYC, each show features a different line-up, with Rivard and drummer Dean Johnston at the core. Guitars, turntables, Fender Rhodes, laptops, horns, tablas and exotic instruments are heard, along with guests such as John Medeski & Billy Martin (MM&W), DJ Logic, Marc Ribot, Skerik, and Marco Benevento. Informed as much by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's ideas of shifting reality and parallel universes, as by Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, neo-psychedelic avatar Terence McKenna and the avant comedy of Mr Show....

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NEW RELEASE SHOW FOR Fire In The Brain (Live at Berklee)!!

Club d'Elf is an ever-shifting group fiercely dedicated to "the groove", evolving from bassist/leader Mike Rivard, covering a startling spectrum of styles, including jazz, hip-hop, electronica, avant-garde, prog-rock and dub.

Comprised of the most sought-after players from the music scenes of Boston & NYC, each show features a different line-up, with Rivard and drummer Dean Johnston at the core. Guitars, turntables, Fender Rhodes, laptops, horns, tablas and exotic instruments are heard, along with guests such as John Medeski & Billy Martin (MM&W), DJ Logic, Marc Ribot, Skerik, and Marco Benevento. Informed as much by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's ideas of shifting reality and parallel universes, as by Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, neo-psychedelic avatar Terence McKenna and the avant comedy of Mr Show.

The band's bi-weekly residency at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA has become the stuff of legend. Over the course of its 14 year history Club D'Elf has toured Japan five times and played clubs and festivals throughout the US. Equally at home playing late-night festival sets for the rave/Burner crowd as it is for a predominately-Arabic audience (as it did at the 2007 Festival Du Monde de Arabe in Montreal).

John Medeski, of the genre-defying Medeski, Martin & Wood, has played an integral role since the band's inception and can be heard on most of the group's releases. Medeski’s recording credits include John Zorn, Iggy Pop, T Bone Burnett, Ray Lamontagne, Dan The Automator, k.d. Lang among others. Medeski has also produced The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, pedal steel guitar group The Campbell Brothers, and two records from The Wood Brothers.

Featuring John Medeski/keyboards & melodica, Danny Blume (Grammy award winner) /guitar, Mister Rourke/turntables, Mike Rivard/bass, sintir & bass kalimba and Dean Johnston/drums.

www.ClubdElf.com

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