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Club d'Elf - Kufala Live Series

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the best of 2004 part 2Club D'Elf - Live Vassar Chapel 2/26/01
Club D'Elf - Live 3/28/02 Athens, GA
Club D'Elf - Live 4/20/00 NYC
Club D'Elf - Live at Tonic New York, NY 05/26/2004
Club D'Elf - 100 Years of Flight - Cambridge, MA
Club D'Elf - Gravity All Nonsense Now 05/08/2003
(Kufala 2003-2004)

Club d'Elf date d'une expérience débutée en Février 1998 par Mike Rivard, bassiste au sein de divers groupes de Boston (Either/Orchestra, Morphine, the Story...). Il s'agissait de faire tourner un vaste collectif de vétérans improvisateurs parmi lesquels Dj Logic, John Medeski ou feu Mark Sandman (Morphine) autour de ses ligne de basse volontairement répétitives, seul dénomnateur commun à tous les sessions de musique improvisée du collectif. La confiture impros-groove-dub'n'bass trance-jazz-indo-marocaine résultante, funky et moderne, est succulente. On apprécira particulièrement le jeu de John Medeski sur tout un panel de claviers, et celui du violon électrique de Mat Maneri, qui fait immanquablement penser à une guitare avec pédales d'effets.
Six (!) double-lives sont sortis cette année sur le label Kufala, et on conseillera à tous les collectionneurs de se jeter dessus, particulièrement sur ceux featuring John Medeski, un musicien au talent infini que l'on peut placer au sommet avec les Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon et autres Frank Zappa, car ils ne seront pas disponibles éternellement. Pour résumer l'affaire de façon synthétique, on rapprochera ces oeuvres de l'esprit des enregistrements 70's de Miles Davis, en plus actuel, façon excursions live-dub, trance-groove, electronica-rock, funk-free-jazz et/ou traditionnel-afro-indien. C'est un peu plus clair comme ça?

links :
Download "The Tingler" MP3 from Vassar Chapel
Download more MP3 tracks and videos (official site)
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