KRAAK

11/12/2024

RADIO ROUNDUP because there's been a lot of catching up to do! Check out the latest shows and mixes on our resident slots at Kiosk Radio Radio Panik & LYL
1. DB & GG press play in the park ahead of Bouwsel Blastings at de Koer
2. DB solo show at kiosk with some weirdo continental pop seleckshuns ahead of the second Kranky Stars instalment at Muziekcentrum Kinky Star
3. THE RETURN OF DNVG, with some amateur airplay fails by GG and the usual oversharing by both
4. A mix for sleepless nights by GG on our bi-monthly LYL slot
Some shows may have been lost to the ether but not forever! These & more on https://kraak.net/radio 📻

09/12/2024

Photos of the Triple bill presented by Kraak: Venediktos Tempelboom, JOOKLOYD & Ishtembashtok | Ancienne Belgique from last month! Some wild intensity in that backstage catering, thanks to the mysterious alternative teKen for the shots!

Photos de concerts >> alternative teKen

07/12/2024

TONIGHT IN MECHELEN:::: setting up for Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE)
DOORS 7:30pm
Lagno 8:30pm
Ameel Brecht 9:30pm
& then off the show circuit till Jan 15 👀

05/12/2024

Also Saturday at Grambacht::: Ameel Brecht 🤠 Brecht Ameel’s alter for waking dreamscapes rendered with guitar, mandolin, organ and whatever implement available to drone you into surrender. Check out his last kraaking almost exactly two years ago at SMOG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnDM41PTn0Y and come clink some glasses with us at Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE) ~~

One part of Razen, deep KRAAK fam ~ guitars, mandolins, violones and whatever stringed or non-stringed tool of elegant collapsehttps://kraak.net/https://kraa...

04/12/2024

SATURDAY AT Grambacht::: LAGNO 💫 Elodie Leneindre’s alter for improvisational pilgrimages on violin and electronics through samples, loops and tonal escapades of the realest order. A true discovery! Check out her gorgeous tape Natural Language
https://dasandereselbst.bandcamp.com/album/natural-language and see/hear in the real at Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE)

LAGNO (Elodie Le Neindre) @ SPETTRO - 5 MAR 2022 BRESCIA ITALY

02/12/2024

THIS SATURDAY 7/12 ~ LAST KRAAK SHOW OF THE 2024 🐉✨ Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE)
Our incidental end-of-year visit to Mechelen's warmest gallery home comes not a moment too late! For this year's collab: the electroacoustic pluckings of Paris-based Lagno, and Ameel Brecht's stringed or non-stringed tools of elegant collapse ~ join us for a last beer-laced buzz to close this buzzed-out year!
Doors at 7:30, first show at 8:30 ~ CHOOSE YR PRICE: 5-7-10 EUR

25/11/2024

THIS THURSDAY 28/11::: KRANKY STARS #2 w/ KOU (FR) + FROM (ES) + De Kat Memwa DJ !! For our penultimate show of 2024 we’re back to barking at the Ghentian moon from the age-old Kinky Star stoop, this time with two off-kilter acts of pop-adjacent sensibilities: KOU's enveloping world of musical quirks prefaced by young FROM’s Spanish bedroom croonings. Plus De Kat Memwa’s musical selection for intros, outros and between-os 🌚 PAY WHAT YOU WANT, ANYTHING YOU WANT 𓃤

22/11/2024

TODAY: DE NEUS VAN GOD, back in full swing at Radio Panik! With a nod to our last two shows of the year 🙃: KRANKY STARS #2 w/ KOU (FR) + FROM (ES) + De Kat Memwa DJ set next week at Kinky Star in Ghent & Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE) December 7 at Grambacht Mechelen! Plus some more listens to our latest Venediktian record, new releases of note from friends and buddy labels, and our picks for shows and stuff to do/hear/play/dig in these last weeks of 2024 ~ tune in forever at 105.4 FM in BXL // radiopanik.org everywhere else!

20/11/2024

OUT NOW:::: Venediktos Tempelboom - Syne Vuyle Hoeck LP 👁
Following his 2021 tape Het Vuil Volkske, our favorite long-haired Ghentian vagabond Venediktos Tempelboom drops a new nugget of transcendent guitar spiels on the KRAAK label, this time in solid LP format. With Syne Vuyle Hoeck, the full gamut of the Tempelbomian vernacular reveals itself through the seven pieces that form the album. From primitive Americana to bohemian melancholia with good dousings of Flemish acidity by way of gloomy tape echo, it’s a particular but vast world contained within these dirty corners. Listen & order on our Bandcamp in bio nuuuuu!
https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/syne-vuyle-hoeck
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K129
Recorded at Ambacht Studio in 2022-2023
Mixed & mastered by Victor Goemaere
Mastering and lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering
300 copies of coal black wax (like Venediktos's heart) featuring original neo-primitive artwork by Felix Baele + sleeve adorned with ghoulie stamp drawn by Benoit Monsieurs and crafted by Dieter Durinck and a broken string memento ~ beheaded trickster knight on the label for those smokey evening listens!

16/11/2024

SETTING UP FOR Triple bill presented by Kraak: Venediktos Tempelboom, JOOKLOYD & Ishtembashtok | Ancienne Belgique
7:00PM DOORS
7:45PM ISHTEMBASHTOK
8:30PM JOOKLOYD
9:30PM VENEDIKTOS TEMPELBOOM
10:30PM EVERYONE OUT
🎭💦

15/11/2024

TOMORROW SATURDAY AT SYNE VUYLE HACKS aka Triple bill presented by Kraak: the strange sonic universe of Ishtembashtok 🗣 Long-haired Ghentian Jeffrey Andréka - also part of the psychedelic jam quartet De Regering Van Treffelijke Zaken alongside the Tempelboom - uses the moniker Ishtembashtok for his myriad musical experiments which range from murky hip hop to Flemish country hymns to garbled garage punk. A one-man band with many tricks under his hat, he’ll be bringing some unhinged compositions to AB Club, using guitar, loopers and a karaoke twist to multi-tracked songs of undisclosed genres. A true discovery for adepts of inscrutable DIY aesthetics and aspiring bedroom producers! Some soundbites over on his bandcamp https://ishtembashtok.bandcamp.com/album/hygiene-technician-other-mistakes and come see what he has in store for us tomorrow at ABClub!

6 track album

14/11/2024

OUT TODAY!!! Venediktos Tempelboom - Syne Vuyle Hoeck LP 👁
https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/syne-vuyle-hoeck
Following his 2021 tape Het Vuil Volkske, our favorite long-haired Ghentian vagabond Venediktos Tempelboom drops a new nugget of transcendent guitar spiels on the KRAAK label, this time in solid LP format. With Syne Vuyle Hoeck, the full gamut of the Tempelbomian vernacular reveals itself through the seven pieces that form the album. From primitive Americana to bohemian melancholia with good dousings of Flemish acidity by way of gloomy tape echo, it’s a particular but vast world contained within these dirty corners. Listen and git your copy over on our Bandcamp! And don't miss out on Saturday's release show:: Triple bill presented by Kraak: Venediktos Tempelboom, JOOKLOYD & Ishtembashtok |at AB - Ancienne Belgique 🎭

7 track album

13/11/2024

This Saturday at ABClub ~ the not-so-official debut of JOOKLOYD 🦦 a wild combination of music heads that you'll have to hear for yourself! Checkit::: Triple bill presented by Kraak: Venediktos Tempelboom, JOOKLOYD & Ishtembashtok | Ancienne Belgique

JOOKLOYD
Saxophonist Virginia Genta and drummer David Vanzan have been playing all sorts of circuits - official and otherwise - as Jooklo Duo since 2004. Their particular flavor of crushing free-form jazz and spastic psychedelic noise has seen them team up with high-caliber accomplices such as Chris Corsano, Bill Nace, Makoto Kawabata, Dror Feiler, Mik Quantius and Thurston Moore. In their latest iteration as JOOKLOYD, a by-product of Virginia’s current residency at the renowned Moers jazz festival in Germany, they team up with Sebastian Von Der Heide (Hipólito) and Nils Herzogenrath (Vomit Heat) to bring joyfully cosmic overtones to the jam band dynamic. Distended improvisations both groovy and entrancing make for true free-form freakouts, a much-needed remedy in these apprehensive times!
http://troglosound.altervista.org/

08/11/2024

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16:::: Triple bill presented by Kraak: Venediktos Tempelboom, JOOKLOYD & Ishtembashtok | Ancienne Belgique
KRAAK celebrates a new record hazing into its catalog with a triply trippy bill at AB Club! We’re proud to present Ghentian guitarist Venediktos Tempelboom’s debut LP Syne Vuyle Hoeck with a live performance by this virtuoso of the transcendental folk persuasion, supported by two acts especially chosen by man himself: the Ghent multi-instrumentalist Ishtembashtok and his outsider one-man band compositions, and JOOKLOYD’s exploratory psychedelia. A triptych of warm-hearted sonic voyaging for these cooling November winds! Tickets and more info here https://shorturl.at/ZJ5E1
+ listens & preorders for this Venediktian LP https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/syne-vuyle-hoeck 🍃

03/11/2024

TODAY‼️KRAAK OPEN HQ DAG: Bear Bones, Lay Low/Food People & Territorial Gobbing/Frituuur Aconcagua/Red Brut
Timetabla:::::
17:00 DOORS
18:30 FRITUUUR ACONCAGUA
19:30 BEAR BONES, LAY LOW
20:30 RED BRUT
21:30 FOOD PEOPLE + TERRITORIAL GOBBING
23:00 THE END
TOT DAN 🌀

02/11/2024

VOID POSTING FOR TOMORROW'S KRAAK OPEN HQ DAG: with Red Brut 🎯 Not a moment too soon, Marijn Verbiesen aka Red Brut returns to her KRAAK abode on the eve of her upcoming album, On Bare Ground, out three-ways on Coherent States/Econore/Dead Mind records. In the uncapitalized words of Niels Latomme, “the tape composer and concrete poet relocated from rotterdam to the far north. along the way, ballast was left behind; she stripped down her unique musical dialect of tape-warbled sound snippets and distant parlando. what’s left? a collection of well-chosen scraps: a poem, a piano loop, subliminal sounds, and an enigma.” SEE US ALL AT LaVallée

's and highly personal take on musique concrète is characterised by a homely feeling: sounds of doors, field recordings of kids playing outside ...

01/11/2024

In two days at our KRAAK OPEN HQ DAG: a first Frituuurian foray! Come n discover the transatalntic exchanges of three foremost sonic explorers of the Latin American experimental alliance this Sunday at LaVallée ➿🌀➿

𓋍 Frituuur Aconcagua 𓋍
Earlier this year, Frituuur Aconcagua’s self-titled debut tape made lucid dreams audible. In this compelling post-Andean configuration, Argentina’s Bardo Todol conjures specters through flutes, radiowaves and the rustling of the earth, Chile’s Embassador Dulgoon layers synth arabesques over samples of uncertain origins, and Brussels-based Ecuadorian Disposición Asoleada untethers the real with various instrumental inchings. This will be the first live manifestation of the Aconcaguan triumvirate, with one-third of the ensemble joining from his Salsipuedesian outpost in ways yet to be determined!
https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/frituuur-aconcagua