As Above: Live at the Lizard Lounge

As Above: Live at the Lizard Lounge Artist: Club d'Elf
Label: Live Archive
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 696431100329
EAN: 0696431100329
ASIN: B000050HY4


Release Date: 2001-01-23

As Above: Live at the Lizard Lounge


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Tracks:

  1. Now I Understand
  2. Shadow's Shift
  3. Actual Smiles
  4. Left Hand Of Clyde (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
  5. Meet The Monster Tonight
  6. Claude Raines Revisited
  7. Last Business (Dub)
  8. D'empty Dance
  9. So Below

Tracks:

  1. Get A Little Turning
  2. Intro/Bass Beatbox
  3. In A Perfect World
  4. Route Of The Root
  5. As Above
  6. Beneath The Underground
  7. Buzz
  8. Taurobolium
  9. Trance Meeting (For Terence)
  10. Last Business
  11. Divine Invasion

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars there's nothing else quite like it.......2004-05-15

why should you care what I think of d'elf?
well, I've got really good taste in music, and when it comes to club d'elf, I've seen them about a dozen times at the lizard lounge. (inside the cd cover, behind the left panel, you can see a table to mike's left in the background. there's a guy in a plaid shirt, and a slim female in profile. that's me, and my wife shawna, from a show we attended a few years ago. w00t, we're famous! ;)

alright, look.
if you like mmw, dj logic, thievery corporation, miles (darkfunk era), charles mingus, life, transcendance, or generally being challenged and satisfied, you will not be disappointed. d'elf doesn't sound like any of these bands I've listed, but I feel the reasons I like these bands are the same reasons I can't get enough of d'elf. jazz, triphop, turntablism, bass (above all the bass!), hand drums, eastern oud strumming, sonic guitar force, saxophone... rivard and crew(s) forge new ground. some combination of jazz, funk, art, jam, world, hop-hop, house, experimental, etc., emerges. it's beautiful. it's important. it sticks with you, if you are a musician, or know how to listen like one. I'm repeating myself, but what the hell, my talents reside in discerning what's worthwhile, not describing it. go to the lizard lounge in cambridge, see these masters, and write it up your damn self. this band is in my top five all-time, bar none.

5 out of 5 stars The next best thing to being there!.......2001-04-06

These cats are simply the coolest. There is nothing quite being at their Lizard Lounge shows, but if you want to simulate the experience at home, screw in some red lightbulbs, invite a bunch of smokers over, pop in these discs, and crank up the volume. And when the groove hits you, start dancing! D'elf spins a cosmic, mystical journey that defies rote categorization. They will stimulate your creativity and (re)awaken your joi de vivre. No praise is too great for they who call themselves: Club d'Elf!

5 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing.......2001-03-11

A friend of mine told me about Club d'Elf. Though I've never had the opportunity to go to a show, I figured the live CD would be a good alternative. Wow. The music is utterly sublime. It moves me every time I play it. I've never heard a live recording which sounds so goddam good (better than most studio CDs!) I can't wait to get to a show...

(HIGHLY recommended)

5 out of 5 stars Tryptamines on disc.......2001-02-15

"Lather, Rinse, Repeat." Scholars place this canto among the oldest known recorded musical texts, and the only one of its kind to top the Billboard charts in two separate millennia. Owing to a bitter copyright dispute, that beloved song is not included on As Above, the debut CD release from the Arcturus-based Club d'Elf, but don't let that discourage you from plumbing its cavernous depths, where novel (and Gnostic) delights await your ears. Formed in a base of lanolin and tocopherol, the true origins of Club D'Elf remain lost to history (though there are those who suggest compelling evidence that it began as an improvisational side project spun off during Saul of Tarsus' Zealots-era studio sessions). Its current incarnation was birthed anew in the reptile house of our local zoo, and is the brainchild of Micro Vard, the cult's reclusive and mercurial Chief Adept. Vard, a supposed 33 degree initiate of the Sisterhood of the Inordinate Prudences, is an inveterate scatologist with a penchant for charity beachcombing (as well as a rumored $13-a-day expired-discount-vitamin habit.) Whatever his predilections, of this there can be no doubt: he is a skilled aural traffic controller, guiding grooves on and off of the runways with the swan-like motions of his red and orange flashlight wands. Peering though his golden speculum into alien worlds few dare even to contemplate, he returns with a glistening message of hyperbolic transcendence, a call to arms for the pacifist in each of us. Call it Eschatological Realism. Necro-romanticism. It caresses your skin like a wet potato sack. It grows like vines around your ankles; it is more plant than human. It sings. In As Above, as elsewhere, Club D'Elf turns wine into water, transmuting a mere intoxicant into something pure, elemental. In a word: Essential. Put it this way. Some people want their music hot and steaming, others prefer it clinically sanitized, like a sports stadium men's room. Me, I like my music like I take my coffee: unfiltered and stone cold. So grab your glue guns and your water-wings, kids, 'cause it don't get any colder than this.

5 out of 5 stars Tryptamines on disc.......2001-02-15

"Lather, Rinse, Repeat."  

Scholars place this canto among the oldest known recorded musical texts, and the only one of its kind to top the Billboard charts in two separate millennia.   Owing to a bitter copyright dispute, that beloved song is not included on As Above, the debut CD release from the Arcturus-based Club D'Elf, but don't let that discourage you from plumbing its cavernous depths, where novel (and Gnostic) delights await your ears.

   Formed in a base of lanolin and tocopherol, the true origins of Club D'Elf remain lost to history (though there are those who suggest compelling evidence that it began as an improvisational side project spun off during Saul of Tarsus' Zealots-era studio sessions).  Its current incarnation was birthed anew in the reptile house of our local zoo, and is the brainchild of  Micro Vard, the cult's reclusive and mercurial Chief Adept.  Vard, a supposed 33 degree initiate of the Sisterhood of the Inordinate Prudences, is an inveterate scatologist with a penchant for charity beachcombing (as well as a rumored $13-a-day expired-discount-vitamin habit.)  

   Whatever his predilections, of this there can be no doubt: he is a skilled aural traffic controller, guiding grooves on and off of the runways with the swan-like motions of his red and orange flashlight wands.  Peering though his golden speculum into alien worlds few dare even to contemplate, he returns with a glistening message of hyperbolic transcendence, a call to arms for the pacifist in each of us.

   Call it Eschatological Realism.  Necro-romanticism.  It caresses your skin like a wet potato sack.  It grows like vines around your ankles; it is more plant than human.  It sings.  In As Above, as elsewhere, Club D'Elf turns wine into water, transmuting a mere intoxicant into something pure, elemental.  In a word: Essential.

   Put it this way.  Some people want their music hot and steaming, others prefer it clinically sanitized, like a sports stadium men's room.  Me, I like my music like I take my coffee: unfiltered and stone cold.

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