cleophone

Proposing the Score to Spy vs Spy

2009-08-10T22:35:00.001-05:00

Moneky In a Suit

2009-06-08T23:34:00.000-05:00

Mistrial Mannequin

2009-03-30T07:10:00.000-05:00

None of These Things

2009-03-07T06:43:00.000-06:00

39 Reasons

2009-02-18T17:47:00.000-06:00

Hope On a Chain

2009-02-18T17:46:00.000-06:00

Marionette

2009-01-14T11:46:00.000-06:00

Left Hand Pinky

2009-01-09T16:44:00.001-06:00

Pretend That I Am Dumb

2009-01-09T16:42:00.000-06:00

The Not-So Invisible Ghost

2008-07-11T14:00:00.002-05:00

Am trying to write a play called The Not-So Invisible Ghost. Music is complete (see below). Next stage is trying to write the script / libretto --- call it what you will. Am pressing to vinyl and CD, but for now, here's some mp3s:

The Not-So-Invisible Ghost

SIDE ONE
Processional For the Ghosts
In the Cemetery
Birthday Present
When Your Lover Is a Spider
Hurry Up, Let's Be Late
Nobody Wants Me to Love You
All the Right Things

SIDE TWO
Love Should Do It
Dead Man's Pocket
Untitled
Inferno Cool
The Not-So Invisible Ghost

If writing for stage or screen is your thing, write me? I haven't the faintest clue as to what I'm doing.

"We're Very Serious About Our Dating" - LESTER live

2007-11-01T08:53:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Perfect Porridge for shooting a little live LESTER:

Lester Live at Hexigon: Oct, 25, 2007

2007-10-29T08:34:00.000-05:00

Cleophone Show :: May 19th :: Heliotrope IV, N.E. Minneapolis

2007-05-13T00:37:00.000-05:00

Playing the Cleophone in N.E. Mpls at the Ritz Theatre. Part of a three day music event called Heliotrope 4 running concurrently with Art-a-Whirl.

The Cleophone will be ending the festival at 11PM on Saturday, May 19th. Details and complete line up for all three days is:

HELIOTROPE 4
May 17, 18, 19
The Ritz Theater :: 345 13th Ave NE Minneapolis

Line Up

Thursday
7:00 Milo Fine w/Charles Gillett, Davu Seru & Viv Corringham
8:00 Jaron Childs and Bryce Beverlin II
8:30 Kaharwa
9:00 Jesse Petersen
9:30 Paul Metzger
10:00 The Dad in Common
11:00 International Novelty Gamelan

Friday
6:30 New Port
7:00 Sarah Johnson
7:30 TOGPTFFSOTWOTER
8:00 Synchrocyclotron
8:30 Mute Era
9:00 Thunderbolt Pagoda
10:00 Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake
11:00 Skoal Kodiak
11:45 White Map

Saturday
6:30 Sean Connaughty & Jason Kesselring
7:00 Dreamland Faces
7:30 Thank You
8:00 The Pins
9:00 Dallas Orbiter
10:00 Build my Gallows High
11:00 David Krejci

Cost
$8 per night
$15 for two nights
$20 for three nights

For information call: 612-871-6659 or email rich@flaneurproductions.com

To pre-pay for tickets on a secure server click here.

Cleophonic Radio - Episode Eight :: Piano

2007-05-07T21:06:00.000-05:00

"I Can't Tell You How I Feel Anymore" -- Piano improvisation, recorded live to two track in the basement: May 6, 2007. Right click and save target as here [22MBs].

Cleophonic Radio - Episode Seven :: Piano

2007-05-07T20:20:00.000-05:00

Piano improvisation titled "Don't Lie About Horses", recorded live to two track in the basement. Right
click and save target as here [22MBs]. Recorded May 6, 2007.

Live Farfisa Organ / Wurlitzer Electric Piano

2007-05-02T10:47:00.000-05:00

From an April 30, 2007 show in St. Paul, MN.

To download full performance, right click and "save target as" here (48MBs)

LESTER: Hide of Frankenstein is complete

2007-04-03T10:46:00.000-05:00

Completed recording 15 songs for the forthcoming LESTER: Hide of Frankestein recording, hoping to have in local stores before June. I'll be adding MP3s of songs as the universe inspires me to do so, starting with So Lonely.

Cleo (for whom the Cleophone is named) made this video for So Lonely with two of her friends in her 3rd grade class.

The final songs are:

LESTER: HIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
1. Welcome 2:08
2. Hide of Frankenstein 6:24
3. Hawaii High Ho 4:04
4. Consumption Twilight 2:28
5. Days of Thirty Duo 2:09
6. She Told Me to Chill 2:35
7. Goodbye 3:32
8. So Lonely 4:13
9. Hate Ain't Great 2:47
10. Salvadore Glue 4:27
11. We're Very Serious About Our Dating 2:58
12. She Drove Her Lover's Van 3:03
13. Deranged and Dutiful 3:08
14. When You Were Nine 2:28
15. Honeycomb 4:43

All songs by Dave Krejci except (8) by Gordon Sumner
Recorded Nov06-Feb 07 @ Albatross Studios
Produced by Mike Wisti and Dave Krejci
Mastered by Doug Wild

Mike Wisti
Drums on 3,7,12
Background vocals on 3,15
Trumpets on 12

Rus Kos
Drums on 1,4,9,11,15

James Dankert
Drums on 8

Guitarzan
Guitar & Bass on 8

Dave Krejci
Whatever else is there

Cleophone Video from January 16.

2007-01-17T09:40:00.000-06:00

Thanks to Perfect Porridge for grabbing this.

Cleophone Show Tonight

2007-01-15T13:50:00.000-06:00

Allies of the wicked and wonderful night: a reminder of the Cleophone presence at Acadia tomorrow evening (Tuesday Jan. 16). Nine-ish. Three dollars. http://www.acadiacafe.com/

The desire of your presence is exceeded in intensity only by the following:

The beauty of Dazed and Confused's bass line, in spite of the ridiculous lyrics---e.g.: if the "soul of a woman is created below" then one could just as easily purport that the soul of a man is right there in tow. However, rather than being an emperical truth, it's more likely Robert Plant was just carelessly rhyming like I just did. And you can see how shameless that is.
The sense of bewilderment that would occur if all nails were ripped from the floorboards of Love, then surreptitiously mixed into one's birthday cake and served with a look of ambivalence.
Admission that if you are so bold to Let Love In you should maybe give it a chair to sit on and offer it some freaking tea.
The youthful redemption of Lennon's "Starting Over"
The overcoming and beautiful silence of snow
My desire for you to be well

Dave.

2007-01-02T18:12:00.000-06:00

Brought the Cleophone into Cleo's third-grade class to let the children play. Listen to THE Cleo talk about the instrument that she inspired via the video below.

Review: City Pages

2007-01-02T18:02:00.000-06:00

From a basement on a hill comes the Cleophone
Sturm und Drone - by Sarah Askari

Every time my house's heat kicks on during this curse-cold October, the hushing wind that blows through the ducts and up the vents lowers my blood pressure as it raises the temperature. White noise makes the anxiety go away. There's a low hum coming from the basement, and it puts me at ease—even though my basement's instrumentation is limited to a furnace (and, of course, an inoperable pipe-organ made from the bones of generations of family enemies). But some basements 'round these parts are more generously outfitted—some basements, in fact, are downright crowded—with Hammond organs and Rhodes electric pianos and timpani and oscillating radios (and, of course, cow bones), all begging to be allowed to sing along with the low, rushing rumble of the furnace.

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Bearing Lester

2007-01-02T13:23:00.000-06:00

The new musical combo LESTER is arriving soon with these songs:

Hate Ain’t Great
Honeycomb
Welcome
Six Feet Under Sad
Days of Thirty Duo
Hide of Frankenstein and Widows Teen
Salvadore Glue
Deranged and Dutiful
Goodbye
We’re Very Serious About Our Dating
Hawaii Joe Five-O
Consumption Twilight
She Told Me to Chill
When You Were Nine

All songs written between Oct 13 and Dec. 1, 2006 and lie nearly complete in Albatross Studio on 2" tape. This is significant to no one but me.

Music is not Cleophone. Music is pianos and guitars and drums and voice and organs and stuff. That may or may not be significant to you. If it's not, please go find something that is significant to you; that matters to me.

Dave Krejci

Review: Perfect Porridge

2006-09-28T16:11:00.000-05:00

from PERFECT PORRIDGE (http://www.perfectporridge.com)

David Krejci
The Cleophone
Label: New American Folk Hero Recordings

How many people do you know who have invented an instrument? In fact, how many musicians do you know who have invented an instrument?

Probably not many, if any. (Actually, we do have a friend who took apart his Washburn guitar to build an instrument but got lazy and now has neither guitar nor cool über-instrument. You may or may not know plenty of those people).

Minneapolis' musician David Krejci (Reverend Strychn Trio) has taken DIY instrument-making to the next level by breaking all the rules and ignoring modern musical devolution for the better. We're talking about the Cleophone, people, and if you haven't heard about, you best keep on reading...

Review: Minnesota Monthly Magazine

2006-09-28T13:54:00.000-05:00

MINNESOTA MONTHLY

DAVE KREJCI
The Cleophone

Even in his garage-rock days, playing in the psychedelic band Green Machine, Dave Krejci established a unique bent. Now, a decade later, the electronic-effects wizard has invented the Cleophone, a 12-string instrument that sounds like a piano with endless sustain and objects stuck in the strings. His debut Cleophone composition crawls through various movements as the instrument is bowed, plucked, and struck like a dulcimer to create vibes and overtones resembling a faint buzz saw, dark wind chimes, and church bells on acid. www.cleophone.com

—JIM MEYER

Cleophone cd gave me nightmares -- First Review of Cleophone CD

2006-09-05T15:06:00.000-05:00

The first official review of The Cleophone CD ...

Cleophone cd gave me nightmares.

So, on Friday or Saturday night, I threw your cleophone cd in when I was going to bed. The bits and pieces I've heard seemed really mellow and droney, so I assume good sleeping music. Not the case. It didn't help that we had just played with a Ouija board. Fell asleep right away, but 15 minutes or so later I kept waking up thinking I was seeing demon shadows flying across the room, but I couldn't wake up quite enough to see what they were. My girlfriend kept waking up and making scared noises in her sleep, too. On that note, great job with it. That must mean it's good if it can invoke demons. -MistahTesta