Now I Understand

Club d'Elf | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Accurate Records
• ASIN: B000H5U6C0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,050 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Introduction

2. Bass Beat Box

3. Hungry Ghosts

4. Quilty

5. Vishnu Dub

6. A Toy for a Boy

7. Luminous Things

8. What Would Cthulhu Do?

9. Now I Understand

10. And Shadow Saw the Gods

11. Wet Bones [Extended]

12. Vision of Kali

13. Just Kiddin

Editorial Reviews

"Club d’Elf combines the roaring avant-funk of electric-era Miles with the legato drift of the Grateful Dead ... heady music that doesn’t neglect the tail." – Time Out New York

This legendary underground dub/jazz/Moroccan/trance/electronica group led by bassist Mike Rivard (Morphine, The Story) has held an eight-year residency at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge. The group has garnered critical praise, drawn sold-out crowds, and topped local polls in jazz, DJ, electronica, and jam band categories. Features John Medeski & Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin & Wood), DJ Logic, Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie), Mat Maneri, Duke Levine (Shawn Colvin), Alain Mallet (Paul Simon), Mister Rourke (Soulive), and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars now I understand, October 13, 2008

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Anthony Hanley "revrckstr" (seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Now I Understand (Audio CD)

WOW!! top muscians take you for the ride of your life----trip the light fantastic, dance, and explore what the meaning of it all is. This cd is amazing and gets better with every listen, a must have for those into the unique.

Anthony hanley

4 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A veritable cornucopia . . ., February 21, 2007

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Now I Understand (Audio CD)

. . . for the ADHD, video game, generally aesthetically overloaded generation.

This musical gallimaufry, to me, sits there like a congealed, two-day-old bad stew that never achieved lift-off. Admittedly, it's almost certainly not aimed at baby-boomers such as myself.

But that doesn't mean it's palatable.

For anyone.

The problem for me--and I don't think it's just a generational thing--is that there's no res here. Yes, there's lots of (semi-appealing) Activity, but not much of consequence: North-African, Dub/Club, World-jazzish, electronica ephemera strew themselves about abundantly, without ever (at least for me) achieving anything of consequence. Where's the Authentic Voice emerging out of this cacophony? Show me one memorable melodic statement, one bit of musical poignancy. Even the way-out jazz avant-garde rather regularly achieves these.

If you dig the latest string of hip musical jags parading themselves before your aural palette in a not uninteresting fashion, this might be the disc for you. But don't blame me if the high fades precipitously: I really doubt you'll be listening to this rapidly decaying half-life music six or even two months from now. If you don't care, that's OK. But someday, you're gonna have to move on to Real Music.

Call me when you're ready: I'm sure I'll have some suggestions for you.