On June 19, 2007 the new live CD will drop. It's called Perhapsody and it's pretty sweet. From the official press release:

When Club d'Elf released its first studio CD, Now I Understand (Accurate) last year, 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. It also seemed appropriate for the band that night to consist of some of the incredible musicians who contributed to the recording of Now I Understand, which Relix Magazine called "A suite with many colors and moods, grooves, and melodies changing at a moments notice...Something about the idea of so many minds and hearts involved here makes this one a winner...If techno has come full-circle, enveloping [its] creator even as it points to another world, this party of relative soloists and collaborators keeps me guessing and wanting to guess."

For this special evening leader Mike Rivard gathered together a heavyweight ensemble 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 and captured in all of its detail on multi-track. The result is the live CD that sounds like a studio CD, Perhapsody, the band's seventh release on LA-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.

The Boston-area CD release party will be Tuesday June 19, 2007 at The Regattabar in Cambridge, MA. This will be a co-bill with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. See the shows page for more details on this and other d'Elf shows.

Perhapsody also heralds a new innovation that Kufala has developed for the packaging: a CD baggie that is 98% transparent, non-toxic, chemical free, has no plastic, is biodegradable, and smoke-able, made out of the same paper as clear rolling papers. Kufala has an exclusive on the technology with the first truly non-plastic CD packaging model.

The date for the band's appearance at the Festival du Monde Arabe de Montreal has been announced: Friday Oct 26, 2007. Everyone north of the border be sure to mark the date! See the shows page for more info.

-micro (updated 6/05/07)

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