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DOWNLOADABLE SONGS
	DAWN'S DREAM: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 2.3MB (MP3 + lyrics), 1999/4/1, a rock song telling a dream My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
	A TOUR OF YOUR BRAIN: by Wayan, 3.4MB (MP3 + lyrics), May 2004, a rock-jig. A bouncy, lobe-by-lobe musical tour of your brain with Buddha as your tourguide...
	GOD: by Mike Marrelli, 3.4MB (MP3 + lyrics) God tells all! "I admit I've a split personality..."
	GAIA'S SONG: by Wayan, 2.1MB (MP3 + lyrics), 2002, an old folk ballad on robotics Gaia appears in a warning vision. However, she's not addressing humanity, but our silver successors...
	PINK EARS: by Mike Marrelli, 2.2MB (MP3 + lyrics) A sea-chanty mourning how Nic's stuffed bunny fell overboard into San Francisco Bay...
	COYOTE SENT ME CASH!: by Wayan, 3.1MB (MP3 + lyrics), a 2007 jazz-rap telling a 1982/10/11 psychic dream. A true tale proving the Trickster God really will provide. We're lilies of the field!
	I WANNA BE: by Mike Marrelli, 3.25MB (MP3 + lyrics) Tell me--what's your secret desire? Now... can you act on it?

SONGS IN PROGRESS

• Bonfire of the Vanities: seeing the future apocalyptically is hardly a new fad
• Cyberspace Baby: it's virtually love!
• Do What You Love And The Money Won't Follow: because neo-feudalism wants it that way
• Engendering Dysphoria: a Renaissance piece about contemplating a sex-change operation
• Flying High: let the giraffes and little ducks guide you through the spirit plane
• He Talks About: and she sings about it. Can there be love between consumer and non?
• Hold On, Harry!: a bluesy tale of love and underwear whose elastic is nearly gone
• Joy is the Queen of Denial: a hymn to the Egyptian goddess who holds the key to bliss: deny everything!
• Memory Pie: we incarnate, acquire new memories... rampant downloading! Sue somebody!
• The Ness Man: if, as Calvin Coolidge said, "the business of America is business", is the stillness of America stillness?
• Saboteur: a dream explains why we fear success AND failure: isn't austerity virtuous?
• Sharks: as shark populations drop, finding a mate gets hard. Singles bars fill up with lonely sharks...
• This Could Be All Right: if we all just sat in the backyard
• Tidal Wave: our local ecosystem is devastated by an invading species: financially solvent people
• You've got a Problem: you're really strange. And no one likes you the way you are. Don't ever change!

We'll make songs downloadable as we record them. If you have podcatching software like Apple iTunes or iPodder Lemon (free on the Web), you can get new songs automatically, rather than checking repeatedly for new stuff. The Krelkins Podcast is free. It's new, so if you have trouble with it please email us!

THE BAND

WHO ARE WE?

A San Francisco-based trio of singer-songwriters. Many of our songs come from dreams. Most have three-part harmonies. Some have accordion. Only one has quacking.

• Nic Griffin: drums, vocals, accordion, kazoo (center of photo)
• Mike Marrelli, guitars, bass and vocals (on the right)
• Chris Wayan, keyboards and vocals (on the left)

WHAT SORT OF MUSIC DO WE PLAY?

We serve the song: each gets the style it needs. Having a signature sound or style restricts a band and betrays the music. We aim for powerful tunes, harmonies, moods, lyrics and stories. Of course, an obsession with quality could itself be labeled a style--but it hasn't yet. We do think a new musical model is brewing here in the Bay Area--polycultural, politically radical, complex, varied, highly personal but respecting the audience--accessible. But this movement is still nameless. Perhaps, at this stage, it needs to be.

WHO IS GOD?

The Beatles, Beethoven and Frank Zappa.

CONTACT US

Email: thekrelkins@yahoo.com
Phone: (415) 648-4907

WILL WE PLAY FOR YOU?

Sure, why not?

REFERENCES

• Leigh Radtke, rogerleigh@comcast.net or (650) 291-1270 (show at Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica)
• Joy-Lily, events@joy-lily.com or (415) 826-8248 (show at Isis Oasis, Geyserville)

Krelkins are strange beings I keep meeting in my dreams--something like maned, horse-tailed herbivorous greyhounds, or hornless deer-sized unicorns... with opposable thumbs and huge brains. On rare occasions, I've dreamt I am one, a wonderful experience, since Krelkins enjoy life: amiable, sensual, humorous and highly intelligent. Like human shamans, they like to roam between realities. They're not Club Med-type tourists, either--they'll explore bizarre, backward places. They'll even come here.

Anyway, the other band members liked the strangeness of the name--we're not gonna get mistaken for anyone else. Since no one else can spell it.

--Chris Wayan