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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

The Cleophone CD Release Show: OCT 10

2006-09-05T12:35:00.000-05:00

Will perform at Acadia on Tuesday Oct 10 at 8PM in recognition of the new CD "The Cleophone" -- the first studio recording of the instrument. Yes, you've been able to download it here for six months, but we're talking hi-fi availabilility now.

Cleophonic Radio - Episode Six:: Live Cleophone on KFAI Radio's "International Jazz Conspiracy" with Emel Sherzad

2006-06-22T15:32:00.000-05:00

Had the great pleasure of performing live on KFAI Radio's International Jazz Conspiracy program, hosted by Emel Sherzad. Perform on the cleophone live in studio, then talk a bit, then play again.

RIGHT CLICK to download Episode #6 (26MB) or subscribe to podcast from link in upper right corner of this page or subscribe at iTunes if you down with it.

Recorded: June 14th, 2006
Instrument: Cleophone
Method: Live to 2-tracks
Location: KFAI Radio, Studio Four

Cleophonic Radio - Episode Five :: Live Rhodes and Farfisa recording from the basement

2006-06-05T23:59:00.000-05:00

The Rhodes Mark I electric piano, Farfisa mini-compact organ, a Chrumar Toccatta organ and a tympani found their way to tape tonight. I'm slowly getting all my instruments down into the basement studio (though studio isn't quite accurate. It's an office room in the basement of a mortgage company.)

RIGHT CLICK to download Episode 5 or subscribe to podcast from link in upper right corner of this page or subscribe at iTunes if you dig that sorta thing.

Recorded: June 5th, 2006
Instrument: Rhodes Electric Piano, Farfisa Mini-Compact, Chrumar Toccatta, tympani
Method: Live to 2-tracks analog
Location: Basement

Cleophonic Radio - Episode Four :: Live Wurlitzer recording from the basement

2006-05-25T01:19:00.000-05:00

Could find no friends and decided to go Wurliphonic Radio tonight beating to life the mighty Wurlitzer 200A electric piano.

RIGHT CLICK to download Episode 4 or subscribe to podcast from link in upper right corner of this page or subscribe at iTunes if that's your druthers. Actung! it's 24MB.

Recorded: May 24th, 2006
Instrument: Wurltizer Electric Piano
Method: Live to 2-tracks analog
Location: Basement

Cleophonic Radio - Episode Three :: Live Cleophone recordings from the basement

2006-05-17T23:47:00.000-05:00

More exorcising of the harmonic hobgobblins de la Cleophone. Hoping to rodeo a colleague or two in to the basement for the next installment of cleophonic radio so lock those ham radios tight.

RIGHT CLICK to download Cleophonic Radio Episode 3 or subscribe to podcast from link in upper right corner of this page or get it at iTunes. Actung! it's 37MB.

Recorded: May 10th, 2006
Instrument: Cleophone
Method: Live to 2-tracks
Location: Basement

Cleophone CD on iTunes

2006-05-11T18:28:00.000-05:00

The forthcoming Cleophone CD ("The Cleophone") is now available on iTunes. The CD version available soon from New American Folk Hero Recordings.

Cleophonic Radio Episode 3 coming very soon.

Cleophonic Radio - Episode Two :: Live Cleophone recordings from the basement

2006-05-01T22:35:00.000-05:00

Cleophonic Radio episode two ... very similar to last week as I'm fencing with identical demons, both internal and external.

Also, continue to tend to a suffering TASCAM Portastudio and await the delivery of a TASCAM 4 track reel-to-reel. The TASCAM is a charmed object but unfortunately has had a few broken bones, none of which have healed properly. Had to drastically reduce the stereo image to compensate for damaged left channel. Regardless, the recording beats The Thompson Twins in several regards and therefore warrants a life of its own.

RIGHT CLICK to download Cleophonic Radio Episode 2, subscribe free at iTunes or subscribe to podcast from link in upper right corner of this page.

Recorded: April 28th, 2006
Instrument: Cleophone
Method: Live to 2-tracks, analog
Location: Basement

My Odeo Channel (odeo/5d3a40fc66d99402)

Cleophonic Radio - Episode One :: Live Cleophone recordings from the basement

2006-04-24T21:42:00.000-05:00

RIGHT CLICK to download Cleophonic Radio Episode 1 or subscribe to podcast from link in upper right corner of this page or at iTunes.

Recorded: April 17th, 2006
Instrument: Cleophone
Method: Live to 2-tracks analog
Location: Basement

Cleophone Performance: Transcendental Meditations Techtronic Music Showcase

2006-04-24T16:08:00.000-05:00

Saturday May 13th, Main Room First Avenue -- Minneapolis