"The Ghentian skyline has low peaks and hides its horrors in full view ~ walk streamside and you'll quickly be confronted with façades that leer with their tales and secrets, the angels and demons that built this city holding up its mortar and stone in an inextricable ...
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"The power of duality is an inscrutable thing: we're endlessly fascinated by the interplay between light and darkness, East and West, voice and silence, our senses tingling from the compelling synergies that thrive in perceived opposites. Drawing from an urbane ...
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"Sumer Is Icumen In is Quentin Thirionet's (Dhavali Giri, Pairi Daeza) debut album. Still, his musical escapades are vast and varied, based almost entirely on improvisation and live recordings, of which he occasionally distributes tapes without further information. ...
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"For his third full-length release on KRAAK - and first LP since 2016's Hacia la luz - Bear Bones, Lay Low digs his probes into the serene chaos of his floating ideas. The eight tracks that make up Ideas Flotantes speak to an ineffable expanse of plausibility where ...
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"Henry Andersen is a Brussels-based visual artist and composer. Trained as a minimal and reductionist composer under the wings of Peter Ablinger, he moved from music into visual art, writing and sound performances. His debut vinyl is a recording of the longrunning piece ...
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with download, might be still valid "Almost 20 years ago Jürgen De Blonde debuted on KRAAK with the nowadays unfindable and almost visionary album köhn 1. It was the starting point for a vital and wondrous exploration that lead him over paths of glitch, idm, shoe ...
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special offer "Eva Van Deuren has been wayfaring as Orphan Fairytale for the past 15 years and counting. With her electronic psychedelia that deftly teeters between the bubbly and the eerie, Van Deuren is a prolific presence in our spheres and her music is a constant ...
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"BROODING PSYCHEDELIC REVELATIONS FROM THE STAVANGERIAN OUTSIDERCORE. Undone Shal is an unfurling tapestry of erratic guitar pickings, muffled percussive conjurings, barging synths, and moans that are part lamentation, part incantation. These arrangements evoke a ...
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"DISORIENTING AULOS HYMNS FOR A METAPHORICAL CHAPEL OF REVERB. KRAAK is proud to present the first LP by Bloedneus & de Snuitkever, MILLI MILLE. Finally in wax, it's Lukas De Clerck's musical vehicle for his explorations with the aulos, that ancient reed instrument that ...
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"The present 7" contains four tracks of subtle magic. Presence and ego are fittingly obscured as Ignatz's distinctive guitar work slips into hazy nether areas. Speckles of piano keys add an unexpected layer of otherworldliness to what is now a canon of comfort. Always ...
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"the latest musical outing by one of Rotterdam's most illustrious pairings in recent history. Marijn Verbiesen (Red Brut) and Michiel Claus (Lewsberg) musically reunite outside of their Sweat Tongue capacity in order to orchestrate a glimmering symphony of ...
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listen on bandcamp***"Het Interstedelijk Harmoniumverbond (The Intercity Harmonium Alliance) is the collaborative construction carrying Glen Steenkiste, Brecht Ameel, David Edren and Steve Marreyt on their quest for yet undiscovered dimensions of drone. Each member ...
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"TyphOnian Highlife is the new moniker of Spencer Clark. Clark is the ultimate shape shifter, a trickster continuously mutating from a sci-fi hero, into a mystic guru or into a speculative visionary. As Typhonian Highlife he assimilates juxtapositions of the natural ...
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