The year is winding down in days and lights, definitely for us KRAAKers who will be mercifully quiet (for the most part) in December ~ but our last shows (and last release!) of 2023 are worth digging, we do believe. This will be a short one, with a couple of three things to warm up with & look forward to because we’re all in need of them, wherever they may come from.
NEW RELEASE: BEAR BONES, LAY LOW - IDEAS FLOTANTES
Out November 28: FINALLY some Bear Bones, Lay Low newness 🐸 For Ideas Flotantes, his third LP for KRAAK (and first since 2016’s Hacia la luz) Ernesto Gonzalez Rondon’s solo insignia comes with a collection of inquisitive vignettes that, while not quite the tribal bangers you’d expect at Dekmantel, still induce the kind of cosmic trance he’s built his infamy on. These synth-based hallucinogenic jams provide the meditative serenity we all need, with the poised, open-minded guidance of a Bear Bones that never stops growing and never stops exploring. Pre-order at our Bandcamp ova heah, and expect an all-out release show + more floating idealized material for the new year, stay on yr toes for these!
LAST SHOWS OF THE YEAR WHAAAAAAT
THIS SATURDAY 18/11 in Antwerp: NEW ROCK CITY LIMITS ~ Ear-scorching riffs and head-plummeting breaks are a tall, with Tomoyuki Aoki and Masami Kawaguchi on their only Belgian date of their Euro solos tour, as well as 2/3 Donna Candy on a decidedly more emotive journey as a quartet for Js Donny Xtnded ~ see us at Antwerp Music City for some noise & Jupils!
Then NEXT SATURDAY 25/11 in Bruges: DEKANT TIMES KRAAK returns to Villa Bota with a communally-dreamed bill to see the year off with our hearts on our collective sleeve 🥲 Jacken Elswyth steps away from shovel dancing to enlighten the olde city with new takes on banjo magic, while French psych outsider GR resurfaces from a decade-long slumber to serenade us with vagabond guitar shredding and unintelligibly raw lyrical prowess, and newcomer Lazzaro layers the singer/songwriting trope with cinematic melancholia that transports you to magnetic fields of the imagination.
More info on both via our kraak.net!!
ODDS & ENDS
Are stalled for the time being, as personal & worldly reasons have had us keeping our heads down this month and reevaluating the state of things as they be. But radio shows always (eventually) uploaded on our Radios tab, with the noteworthy addition of our new residency at LYL, to be debuted soon!
Plus the YouTube channel is thriving with newness from the latest and not-so-latest shows ~ new show footage from Radio Hito, Rump State, Anotyne, Arlette and many more to be scooped! Keep abreast of these and all our fleeting KRAAK hollerings on our social socialz.
ONWARDS TRUCK, WE MUST
To better and (and more verbose??) notes to end the year with ❤️