Dave Krejci BIO
Dave Krejci's earliest memory of music is that of trailing his mother while she vacuumed. Krejci would hum along with the vacuum's orchestral drone sliding in and out of pitch to create vibrations in his chest. This attraction to the visceral and hypnotic characteristics of sound has fed Krejci's fire for more than 25 years. His adulthood obsession with organs, Leslies, the Cleophone and pianos is nothing more than an adult extension of his vacuum-chasing days.
Krejci grew out of Austin, Minnesota, a small hog-slaughtering town curiously full of musicians. "Classically trained" on the piano, Krejci spent the majority of his musical time writing his own compositions and playing piano in bands. In 1987, Krejci escaped the miserable town and fled to Minneapolis to attend the University of Minnesota.
In the late 1980s and early 90s, Krejci played Hammond organ for TwinTone/Prospective recording artist GREEN MACHINE, a psychedelic trio that produced several full-length CDs and 45RPMs. In 1991, Krejci and his band spent 10 days with Arthur Brown (aka, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown) recording their final CD Sonic Lobotomy, upon which Brown sings The Vicar, a Krejci composition.
Krejci spent the next ten years recording solo music as well as collaborating with Glassectomy, Environmental Mutagen Kingdom, Paul Metzger and other experimental artists, all-the-while acting as guitarist/singer for his rock outfit, the "Reverend Strychn Trio," and recording a number of CDs with these groups on EggBag Records. He likewise worked his way through jazz standards on the acoustic and Rhodes electric piano, building a solid repertoire of bent and beautiful versions of songs like My Funny Valentine, Nice Work if You Can Get it, My Favorite Things and dozens of songs from his collection of more than 1000 78RPMs.
In the Spring of 2005, built the CLEOPHONE, an electronic stringed instrument difficult to define beyond, perhaps, calling it a Hoover with a soul. The Cleophone is built out of heavy piano strings, Rhodes electromagnetic pick-ups and a microphonic copper stand. The instrument is played through two Leslie Speakers and manipulated with piano hammers, bows, sticks, bones, brushes and ball-bearings. Krejci will be recording the first full-length CD of the Cleophone in the summer of 2005.
Krejci grew out of Austin, Minnesota, a small hog-slaughtering town curiously full of musicians. "Classically trained" on the piano, Krejci spent the majority of his musical time writing his own compositions and playing piano in bands. In 1987, Krejci escaped the miserable town and fled to Minneapolis to attend the University of Minnesota.
In the late 1980s and early 90s, Krejci played Hammond organ for TwinTone/Prospective recording artist GREEN MACHINE, a psychedelic trio that produced several full-length CDs and 45RPMs. In 1991, Krejci and his band spent 10 days with Arthur Brown (aka, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown) recording their final CD Sonic Lobotomy, upon which Brown sings The Vicar, a Krejci composition.
Krejci spent the next ten years recording solo music as well as collaborating with Glassectomy, Environmental Mutagen Kingdom, Paul Metzger and other experimental artists, all-the-while acting as guitarist/singer for his rock outfit, the "Reverend Strychn Trio," and recording a number of CDs with these groups on EggBag Records. He likewise worked his way through jazz standards on the acoustic and Rhodes electric piano, building a solid repertoire of bent and beautiful versions of songs like My Funny Valentine, Nice Work if You Can Get it, My Favorite Things and dozens of songs from his collection of more than 1000 78RPMs.
In the Spring of 2005, built the CLEOPHONE, an electronic stringed instrument difficult to define beyond, perhaps, calling it a Hoover with a soul. The Cleophone is built out of heavy piano strings, Rhodes electromagnetic pick-ups and a microphonic copper stand. The instrument is played through two Leslie Speakers and manipulated with piano hammers, bows, sticks, bones, brushes and ball-bearings. Krejci will be recording the first full-length CD of the Cleophone in the summer of 2005.
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