![]() Rivard and drummer Johnston are Club D’Elf’s consistent members, and the interplay between the two is the core of the ensemble, no matter who else is playing.Wizard lizards spawn on Wizard Island, which is accessible through the portal on the Buffalkor Island or through a Wizard Portal. even a half-decade ago is the telepath-like connection the musicians can make with one another when the music is at its strongest. Rivard, a Berklee College of Music graduate and member of the Boston Pops Orchestra as well as numerous other local and international associations, said the biggest difference between D’Elf collectives now vs. “It’s like a tribe, a family, and my goal all along has been to create a repertoire – a book of music that, like in the jazz tradition where there are standards, everyone knows the material inside and out and you can go places with it.” “I try to create lineups for which different personalities can get together and react well,” said Rivard, who plays acoustic and electric basses as well as the three-stringed sintir. (Club d’Elf will also resume its regular every-other-Friday residency at the Lizard Lounge on Feb. 27 show at the Red Room at Cafe 939 in Boston. Both Medeski and Levine are in the lineup for next Friday’s show at the Columbus Theater in Providence, and guitar wizard David Tronzo is aboard for a Jan. ![]() The Club Helsinki show featured Rivard alongside heavyweights like John Medeski, Duke Levine, Brahim Fribgane, DJ Mister Rourke and Milton resident Dean Johnston, several of whom will join Club d’Elf lineups for a series of CD release shows this month. Its regular Friday night shows at Cambridge’s intimate Lizard Lounge attract some of the city’s – and the country’s – top musicians as part of a rotating cast of collaborators, and it’s still expanding, having recently played its first shows in South America and looking to explore other moves beyond its New England enclave. Now entering its 19th year, Club d’Elf is a Boston-area institution. What I’m looking for is an energy in the music – a quality in the music – that really flows organically, and everybody was really listening to each other that night.” “We hadn’t put anything out in a couple of years, and this particular show is a pretty good idea of where the band is at these days. “It was just one of those nights that was really good: Everyone was connecting, the music was deep and the recording came out well,” said bandleader and longtime Boston music scene staple Mike Rivard, who lives in Lincoln, R.I. For newcomers, it’s a worthy introduction to what’s made the group a cult favorite among lovers of improv and the band’s heady melange of music styles, from Moroccan gnawa to psychedelic rock, hip-hop and groovy acid jazz. ‘Live at Club Helsinki,” the new release from Club d’Elf, is that rarest of documents: something that captures a highly improvisational band working its magic and somehow bottles the feeling of something that, by definition, is ephemeral – that was meant to be heard in the moment.įor longtime d’Elf fans, it’s a beautiful listen, captured at the Hudson, N.Y., location of former Great Barrington stronghold Club Helsinki in 2012. Its regular Friday night shows at Cambridge’s intimate Lizard Lounge attract some of the city’s – and the country’s – top musicians as part of a rotating cast of collaborators. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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