(Fusion, Funk, Electronic, Dub, Moroccon-trance, Psychedelic) [CD] Club d’Elf (feat. John Medeski, Dave Tronzo, Duke Levine etc.) - Perhapsody: Live At The Lizard Lounge 10/12/2006 - 2007, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

When Club d'Elf released its first studio CD of its nine years of existence in 2006, it was only fitting that the band should hold its official release party at the Lizard Lounge, where it had been playing most every other Thursday since '98.
For this special evening leader Mike Rivard gathered together a heavyweight ensemble consisting of MMW keyboardist John Medeski, the dual guitars of Dave Tronzo (Daniel Lanois/Sex Mob) and Duke Levine (Shawn Colvin/Jonatha Brooke), Mister Rourke (Soulive) on turntables and samples, and original d'Elf drummer Erik Kerr.
Joining this stellar cast (with Rivard on electric and acoustic basses and the Moroccan sintir) were horn players Tom Hall, Tom Halter (Either/Orchestra) and Sam Kininger (Soulive).
Fortunately the music that evening was recorded, captured in all of it's detail on multi-track. The result is a live release that sounds like a studio release - Perhapsody, the band's seventh release on L.A.-based Kufala.
The album captures the intense energy that d'Elf bring to their live shows, which have become the stuff of legend, featuring telepathic improvisations adorning relentless grooves, played by musicians at the top of their craft.

A floating ensemble in every best sense of the word, Club d'Elf is tethered to bassist Mike Rivard and the more or less house rhythm section from Rivard's extended residency at the Lizard Lounge, a progressive if not experimental music club in Boston. After releasing numerous live albums—the best laboratory for their mainly improvised, genre-munching music—they released their first studio album, Now I Understand (Accurate), in late 2006. What did they do at their studio album release party? Why, perform and record it for another live album—Perhapsody, a double-CD set that overflows with jam.
Most tunes led by Tom Hall's tenor saxophone suggest jazz fusion hijacked into more adventurous (and sometimes dangerous) territory. Hall's sax shapes the structure and leads the instrumentation of "Life of the Mind," for example, even though the music those instruments are actually playing sounds more attuned to experimental hip-hop and funk. He later leads the almost jolly yet crumpled bop melody of Steve Bernstein's "Cave Man," kicked by Erik Kerr's whipcrack snare drum down the echoing corridor of Rivard's bass heartbeat, which shifts into a thick jungle vamp for a middle section that seems designed to let the music breathe, culminating in a Rivard / Kerr dialogue/diatribe that bombdrops atomic funk.
Like quicksilver, the rest of this moves even more all over the place than that. Several longer tunes (such as "Sin Gas" and the title track) explore collective electric rock/jazz improvisations. "Berber Song" may be based on a form of traditional Moroccan folk music but its frantic lead guitar, clattering backdrop and rhythmic churn exemplify the busy-ness of modern American life. Similarly, "Jar of Hair" rocks hard through music that doesn't even come close to rock 'n' roll, as Rivard's bass seems to play "Tag—you're it! with Kerr's drum patterns under the cover of an electric guitar psychedelic freak-out.
I've been listening to Perhapsody for several consecutive weeks and still haven't figured out how to explain or describe this music. Which is probably the most honest and accurate Club d'Elf review of all.
Track Listing: CD1: Intro/Bass Beatbox; Sin Gas; Perhapsody; Life Of The Mind; Amazing Prelude; Berber Song; Goblin Garden; The Tingler; Hungry Ghosts. CD2: Cave Man; That Is My Voice; Salvia Pt. I; Salvia Pt. II; Jar Of Hair; Softly; Sand.
Personnel: Mike Rivard: electric bass, acoustic bass, electronic tamboura, acoustic bass, sintir; Dave Tronzo: slide guitar, prepared guitar; Duke Levine: guitar, electric sitar; Mister Rourke: turntables; John Medeski: keyboards; Erik Kerr: drums; Tom Hall: tenor saxophone; Tom Halter: trumpet.
Year Released: 2007 | Record Label: Kufala Recordings | Style: Jam Band
By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

John Medeski (keyboards)
Dave Tronzo (slide & prepared guitars)
Duke Levine (guitar & electric sitar)
Mister Rourke (turntables)
Mike Rivard (electric & acoustic basses, sintir, electronic tamboura)
Erik Kerr (drums)
w/ guests:
Tom Hall (tenor sax on Disc 1 #4,5,6 & Disc 2 #1-5, 7)
Tom Halter (trumpet on Disc 2 # 2)

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