A short newsletter to agglomerate the few things we have going on. It’s been indeed a strange and heavy 2024 for the heads running KRAAK, and times just keep getting stranger. This spring will therefore be a light one for us: one record (but a total gem), one show (but a total banger) and one newsletter (need we say more) to cover our wits until the summer rolls back in. Hopefully the world gets a little sweeter by then, but if not here’s our minor contribution to that end:
NEW RELEASE ALERT:::: K126 AYA SUZUKI - WINGED SEEDS CD
Debut album of Brussels based Japanese percussionist Aya Suzuki recorded during a summer residency at STUK in Leuven, presents the work of a musician whose ingenuity is in full flight. Clay pots, vibraphone, aluphone, bowls, and, of all things, rice, are her tools for conjuring arresting atmospheres through intricate fantasias and serene abstractions. Aya’s mastery of percussive techniques goes hand in hand with her gift for poetic improvisation, as sound and silence have an equal and deliberate weight that charge each moment, suspending time and place into a magical stasis. Check out the opening track “Leaf Vein” here & the preorder button on our KRAAK dot Bandcamp ~
MAY 5: BLOOMING DERVISHES: ACETYLENE, AONGHUS MCEVOY, AYA SUZUKI, CIAN NUGENT, LIAM GRANT @ AB CLUB
MAY 5: A whirling world of sound unfurls on this first KRAAK show of the spring, in joyous collaboration with the AB Clubmates. Entrancing cyclical music from many orbits is our way of welcoming a new season! Featuring Aonghus McEvoy and Cian Nugent performing Irish guitar expansions two ways, Acetylène’s French trad disintegrations, Liam Grant’s contemporary renditions of ragtime and beyond, and a spellbinding times with Aya Suzuki’s mallets, pipes and bells as we celebrate the release of her debut CD, Winged Seeds. Tickets and info over at our kraak.net!
ONE SMALL ODD TO END
Which is a couple of KRAAK Fest revisitings: photos of this year’s edition by Hans van der Linden and a mix on LYL Radio with all the sets we were able to capture. Because good things are for memorializing ~ more of those will surely come all our ways.