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FREE DEMOS

	DO WHAT YOU LOVE: by Wayan; 5MB, 2012. Or plain MP3 "Do what you love and the money will follow!" We sang it in clubs & cafes. Well maybe it did once but now it rings hollow...
	SABOTEUR: by Wayan; jazz song based on two dreams, 2012, 7MB. Or plain MP3 I dreamed I met my inner saboteur. Then I became my saboteur. Success is immoral!
	DAWN'S DREAM: by Dawn Z and Wayan; 2.3MB, 1999/4/1; or plain MP3 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, May 2004, a rock-jig. Or plain MP3 A lobe-by-lobe musical tour of your brain with Buddha as your tourguide
	GOD'S SONG: by Mike Marrelli, 3.4MB. Or plain MP3 God tells all! "I admit I've a split personality..."
	GAIA'S SONG: by Wayan, 2.1MB, 2002, an old English ballad on robotics. Or plain MP3 Gaia appeared in a warning vision. Only she wasn't warning us, but our silver successors
	PINK EARS: by Mike Marrelli, 2.2MB; or plain MP3 A sea-chanty mourning how Nic's stuffed bunny fell overboard into San Francisco Bay
	COYOTE SENT ME CASH!: by Wayan, 3.1MB, a 2007 jazz-rap telling a 1982 psychic dream. Or plain MP3 A true tale proving the Trickster God really will provide. We're lilies of the field!
	I WANNA BE: by Mike Marrelli, 3.25MB. Or plain MP3 Tell me--what's your secret desire? Now... can you act on it?

THE ALBUM
We've finished our first album!
The Krelkins is available through Bandcamp

Tidal Wave: Our local ecosystem is devastated by an invading species: techies A Tour of your Brain: A lobe-by-lobe musical tour of your brain with Buddha as your guide Memory Pie: We reincarnate, lose old memories, acquire new memories, get profoundly confused... I Wanna Be: Tell me--what's your secret desire? Can you live it? Saboteur: I dreamed I met my inner saboteur. Then I became my saboteur. Since success is evil. Why do We choose Hate?: Enough said. Fight to Win: the music business takes stamina and resilience. Can you bounce back? Do What You Love and the money will follow! We sang it in clubs & cafes. Well maybe it did once... He Talks About and she sings about it. Can there be love between consumer and non? Coyote Sent Me Cash! A true tale proving the Trickster God really will provide. We're lilies of the field! Dawn's Dream: My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure The God Song: God tells all! "I admit I've a split personality..." Pinkears: A sea-chanty lamenting how Nic's stuffed bunny fell overboard into San Francisco Bay Strangers Break In: I'm scared to start singing 'cause strangers break in... as in burglars. Or music critics.

• Migrate through Fire: we furry cave-creatures loved to sing, but music lured the sabertooths. So our herd set out to...
• Flying High: let the giraffes and little ducks guide you through the spirit plane
• Engendering Dysphoria: a Renaissance ballad about contemplating a sex-change operation
• The Ness Man: if, as Calvin Coolidge said, "the business of America is business", is the stillness of America stillness?
• This Could Be All Right: if we all just sat in the backyard
• Bonfire of the Vanities: seeing the future apocalyptically is hardly a new fad
• Cyberspace Baby: it's virtually love!
• 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!
• Toothy Little Women: as shark populations drop, finding a mate gets hard. Singles bars fill up with lonely sharks...
• You've got a Problem: you're really strange. And no one likes you the way you are. Don't ever change!

THE BAND

A San Francisco band playing originals. 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)
• Mike Marrelli, guitars, bass and vocals (right)
• Chris Wayan, keyboards and vocals (left)
• Erik Gross: drums

Originals.

Each song gets the sound it needs. Rock, jazz, folk, baroque, punk, classical, salsa, rap.

Then comes the next song.

• Mike Marrelli: 50's-70's pop, Beatles, John Lennon, Neil Young, Randy Newman, surfrock, the blues, the funk, The Doors, Frank Zappa, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Grateful Dead, Dan Hicks, 10cc, Bob Wills, Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Beethoven
• Chris Wayan: Fiona Apple, Squeeze, early Tori Amos & Kate Bush, the Beatles, REM, the Incredible String Band, Jill Sobule, Leonard Cohen, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, They Might Be Giants, Threepenny Opera, Pete Townshend, Tom Lehrer. Locals: Alison Craig, Lauren Crow, Eliza Rickman, Jellyfish, Erma Kyriakos, Andrew Page, Rabbit Quinn, Rin Tin Tiger, Bob Scott, and of course the Wally Cutthroat Duo.
• Nic Griffin: Someday she will have a moment free from turning trash into couture and will answer this question.
• Erik Gross: the Stranglers. Also, the Stranglers.

Email: thekrelkins@yahoo.com
Phone: (415) 518-4907 or (415) 830-2808

NicGriffin.com: Nic's trash fashion

WorldDreamBank.org: Chris's dream art

Nothin' But Fun: Mike & Erik's cover band

• 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'll never get mistaken for anyone else. Since no one else can spell it.

--Chris Wayan