al kal

California Academy of Sciences Nightlife

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:06:11 -0700

Every so often I play a live PA set and DJ at the CAoS Nightlife party, which is a weekly event where 1,500 or so people come to hang out in a beautiful natural history museum and aquarium. I play a 4 hour set, so I pull out all the tunes, and jump all over the map stylistically. Take a listen...

I’ve divided it up into 3 parts, since each file is quite large. Either click on the moon to listen, or right click to download.

recordings

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:59:42 -0800

Current Music

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:43:35 -0800

Live Set from Shine, November ‘09
Here’s a little set from my monthly residence at Shine, complete with out of control digital delay and crazy mixing to remind you that it’s live. Never a dull moment! It’s a little over 30 mins. long, so you may want to right click and download.

Fire
Rithma throws out a beat, Nica and I smell something burning in the Rancho Relax-o Studio, literally. She loops a lyrical idea over the groove, and I capture it with a compact camera and do a rough arrangement. This one will be much refined but the flame has been ignited.

Sunday Jam
Sitting around with my former roommate sax player Jeff Magnus, and guitar/bass player Stephen Ethridge, we layered lines and harmonies to create this reggae-ish groove. I added the 2nd part while experimenting with mixing it into a more electronic set, and just got carried away.

All music copyright Alex Kalejs, 2008, 2009, 2010
unless otherwise noted.

Tube

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:19:13 -0700

Tube was the band I played with while living in Baltimore, Maryland. We met the first few days of college back in 1994, and stayed playing together for 8 years. From compositional to improvisational to groove, we would play long jams, Medeski Martin & Wood covers, and weird time signatures within a given set.

Hugs the Disco Pig was our mascot. Seen wrapped in Christmas lights, he was rarely forgotten at home when we gigged.

The downloads (click or right-click the text below the above moons):
Chubb Subb- an MMW cover played live @ The Belvedere, c. 2002
Baltimore Wedding Cake- a jazzy composition of mine
Going Before This- a compositional journey by Rick Threadgill, bass player

Mobius Project

Sat, 8 May 2004 13:10:48 -0700

In 2004, soon before I moved out west, I met these guys at a hole in the wall called the Grog and Tankard, about the only live music venue in Georgetown D.C.. We had a few basement recording sessions and a couple live shows, and ended up with a bunch of material thanks to recording engineer Todd Wilcox.

These guys had been playing for much time together, so I had the good fortune of stepping into a well-oiled machine... yeeee haw!

3 jams, each about 15 minutes long
(click or right-click the above text by the moons)