Event is 21+
$30/$35 GA
$75 Reserved
Halloween has long been a sacred (scared?!) day for Club d’Elf, and its Lizard / Halloween shows are a long-standing tradition that took a pause during the pandemic, returning full force last year. This year the band continues the tradition but with a show on the very day itself, featuring a creepy line up of Jeff Lockhart (guitar), Tom Hall (sax), Paul Schultheis (keys), Mister Rourke (turntables), Mike Rivard (bass & sintir) and Fabio Pirozzolo (drums). Costumes are encouraged!
Club d’Elf has been helping audiences lose track of time for twenty five years with its mesmerizing synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk. Circling about bassist/composer Mike Rivard, each Club d’Elf performance features a different line-up, drawn from a constellation of some of the most creative improvisers from the jazz, DJ, rock & world music scenes of Boston, NYC and beyond. The band’s music draws from a startlingly wide spectrum of styles, including jazz, hip hop, electronica, avant garde, prog-rock and dub. Under the tutelage of now deceased member Brahim Fribgane, Moroccan trance music became an essential part of the mix, featuring Rivard’s commanding playing of the Moroccan sintir. Trance forms the central core of the Club d’Elf aesthetic, weaving together the band’s various influences.
“You Never Know is a wide ranging romp, full of serenity, chaos, longing, improvisation and peerless musicianship inspired by music from India and Morocco as well as the maverick jazz of Miles Davis and Frank Zappa.” – Banning Eyre, Afropop Worldwide
“Crushed between the borders of Morocco, jam band land and the kingdom of avant-garde jazz lies Club d’Elf…James Brown-meets-Sun-Ra.” – Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald
“Sounds like the lovechild of Pink Floyd and George Clinton, dropped in Marrakesh…some deeply psychedelic music.” – Marlon Bishop, WNYC
