Duke Levine & The Super Sweet Sounds of the '70s & Club d'Elf

150 Corporate Park Drive,Pembroke MA 02359

23 July, 2021

Description

Duke Levine & The Super Sweet Sounds of the '70s makes their Soundcheck debut and Club d'Elf is back by popular demand. Show Details: Tickets are $25/each, available in tables of 2, 4 and single GA tickets.This is an outdoor event.21+ EventDoors 6pm, Music 7pmTables are first come, first served, if you purchase single GA you can bring your own lawn chair to sit. Bar will be open for business selling beer, spiked seltzer, mixed drinks.Food Truck TBA.About Duke Levine & The Super Sweet Sounds of the '70s: Duke Levine & The Super Sweet Sounds of the '70s takes a stroll down the bong-lined sidewalks of Duke Levine's musical youth. His All-Star band is gonna help him travel back to a time when The Lord's Prayer, Strauss, and Charlie Daniels were all on the Top 40. They'll do a bunch you know, some you never heard, and some you may have wanted to forget! All instrumental! About Club d'Elf: Club d'Elf has been helping audiences lose track of time since its first show twenty three years ago at Boston's Lizard Lounge, and since then has taken its bold synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk to audiences as far away as Japan and South America. Circling about bassist/composer Mike Rivard and drummer Dean Johnston, 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 and NYC. The band's music has been called "the music of dreams" by the Boston Globe, and draws from a startlingly wide spectrum of styles, including jazz, Moroccan Gnawa, hip hop, psychedelia, electronica, avant garde and dub. Club d'Elf has been featured on PRI's The World, Voice Of America, and Afropop Worldwide, with Time Out New York describing the music as “The roaring avant-funk of electric-era Miles (and) the legato drift of the Grateful Dead…heady music that doesn’t neglect the tail”. The Boston Herald proclaimed “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.” Derived from ancient sources, trance forms the central core of the Club d'Elf aesthetic, unifying the various genres the band has absorbed. Guitars, turntables, Fender Rhodes, laptops, horns, tablas and all manner of exotic instruments flow in and out of the mix, along with Rivard's commanding playing of the Moroccan sintir, a camel-skin-covered bass lute. A mind-boggling array of special guests have been featured with D'Elf, including John Medeski, Mark Sandman (Morphine), Hassan Hakmoun, Marc Ribot, Reeves Gabrels (Bowie/The Cure), Adam Deitch, DJ Logic, Ryan Montbleau, Marco Benevento and Skerik. The band's new album - it's sixteenth release - is expected to drop in September 2021. "One of the most inventive and ever-changing bands in all of new jazz" - Russ Davis, Jazz America "....the lovechild of Pink Floyd and George Clinton, dropped in Marrakesh...deeply psychedelic...." - WNYC Soundcheck Studios is a complex for musicians.  A place and community where musicians can practice, exchange ideas, collaborate, and perform.