KROOKS Records

13/12/2024

We’re thrilled to present the new release, “Love Song for a Demon” by Lady Joker ! This EP explores the duality of existence, reimagining death as renewal and encouraging us to embrace our inner darkness. Produced by Live Sublime, featuring vocals by Laura Sestri, poetry by India Zahra Lyell , and a remix by Arjuna Schiks, the EP blends live instrumentation with surreal, raw emotion, creating a meditative journey through life’s cycles ✨

We’ve put a lot of heart into this one and are proud to share this new piece with you. It’s now available on all digital platforms—perfect for your 2025 playlists and decks. Check it out via the link in our bio! 🃏

© KROOKS Records 2024

Lady Joker’s debut EP embodies the profound duality of existence, where opposites endlessly mate. With three tracks—Love Song for a Demon, Womb of Decay, and A Lost Piano—the EP explores how death is not an end, but the source of renewal, urging us to embrace our inner darkness instead of resi...

11/12/2024

Today is release day! Go find the Lady Joker - A Song for a Demon EP, no available on your fav platform 🃏 https://bit.ly/LadyJoker_listen_now

Born from darkness, decay, and love, our EP is now streaming everywhere—are you ready to dive in? 🎵

“Love Song for a Demon” has music we have carried with us over the years, performing and developing them at a myriad of venues, from abandoned castles to rave churches. The tracks found their home in the hearts of nocturnal creatures, existing only within the present moment of experience. Now our beats are emerging from the underground into the wide world, for all to hear.
From our first synergies, reaching into our own darkness and decay, learning to love our demons instead of banishing them. It is a celebration to know this secret music will now be enjoyed by the many and will finally enjoy the light of day, but also a farewell to its safe zone, in the dark, in well-chosen moments and surroundings of critically selected sound systems that did it justice.

The music we carried through the years is now yours to carry forward—our EP has dropped!✨

STREAM & BUY “LOVE SONG FOR A DEMON”:
https://bit.ly/LadyJoker_listen_now

SPOTIFY:
https://open.spotify.com/album/593uhJ4yk28C1YvlzIxFG2?si=kkFfcqY-Rtu-DJgddggGew

APPLE MUSIC:
https://music.apple.com/nl/album/love-song-for-a-demon/1782328260?l=en-GB

SOUNDCLOUD:
https://on.soundcloud.com/n34Vo9u15k3o3pu97

Thank you Martin Grozdanoski and Alper Kekec, for enriching our music with your beautiful instruments and voice. Thank you Fenno Verdaasdonk Martin Grozdanoski Guy van Koolwijk from KROOKS Records, and Dave Greenberg from Sonopod Mastering

📷: Tomiris Nabiyeva
💄: Denise van Werkhoven

03/12/2024

👀 Leading up to the upcoming release ‘Love Song for a Demon’ on KROOKS Records, today Lady Joker is sharing their second inspiration with us, which significantly brought this release to life artistically...

One of Lady Joker’s primary pillars of inspiration is Surrealism, as defined by Breton (1969 [1924]): a movement that seeks to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. Breton describes it as ‘pure psychic automatism,’ in an endeavour to express thoughts uncensored by reason, aesthetic considerations, or moral judgment. This movement encourages the exploration of dream-like scenarios and the bizarre, often blending reality and fantasy in unexpected juxtapositions to challenge the conventional perception of reality. In Breton’s own words:

“We are still living under the reign of logic: this, of course, is what I have been arriving at. However, in this day and age, logical methods are applicable only to solving problems of secondary interest. The absolute rationalism that is still in vogue allows us to consider only facts relating directly to our experience. Logical ends, on the contrary, escape us. It is pointless to add that experience itself has found itself increasingly circumscribed. (…) Under the pretence of civilization and progress, we have managed to banish from the mind everything that may rightly or wrongly be termed superstition or fancy; forbidden is any kind of search for truth which is not in conformance with accepted practices. It was, apparently, by pure chance that a part of our mental world which we pretended not to be concerned with any longer — and, in my opinion, by far the most important part — has been brought back to light. “(Breton, 1969 [1924], pp. 7-8)

🃏 Lady Joker follows Surrealist visual practice by bringing abstract concepts into physical form.
📸 Avatar by Dorothea Tanning (1947, Oil on canvas, 14 x 11 in.)

28/11/2024

📣 This Saturday evening November 30, (19:30–00:00), we invite you to the official release party of Lady Joker new EP, “Love Song for a Demon,” at Loods12. Grab your ticket now at Lady Joker - EP Release Party!

You are invited to experience the music in its full regalia—Lady Joker style. Alongside their signature performances, they will be joined on stage by Grozdanoski and Alper Kekeç with live instruments. Naturally, the night will continue with a little boogie to kick off your Saturday just right 👯‍♂️

See you this Saturday! 🃏

25/11/2024

👀 Leading up to the upcoming release ‘Love Song for a Demon’ on KROOKS Records (Join the release event on November 30 ), today Lady Joker is sharing their second inspiration with us, which played a significant role in bringing this release to life artistically...

👑 The track ‘A Lost Piano’ draws inspiration from The Little Prince, channelling the story’s poetic metaphors and the haunting beauty of its desert setting. Just as the prince encounters the vast, empty sands where he learns profound truths, the piano represents something lost yet meaningful. The barren desert becomes a metaphor for isolation and introspection, where the absence of sound heightens the significance of every note.

In The Little Prince, simple encounters reveal deeper truths about love, loss, and connection. Likewise, the music of A Lost Piano mirrors this simplicity, with delicate, sparse melodies that echo the story’s themes of innocence and wonder. The lost feeling is amplified by the piano’s black keys, whose sombre tones evoke a sense of searching in an emotional landscape.

Keep tuned for the release on December 4 and our release party on November 30 at Loods12 Lady Joker - EP Release Party 🃏

09/11/2024

👀 Leading up to the upcoming release 'Love Song for a Demon' (with remixes by Arjuna Schiks), today Lady Joker is sharing their inspirations with us, which played a significant role in bringing this release to life artistically....

🌻Seeds are an essential ingredient to life. From them sprout plants, animals, ideas. Metaphorical seeds grow in our minds into mythologies and doctrines, which some argue to be that which distinguishes humanity from other life forms. We all know that “you reap what you sow”; the initial intention behind every action casts the colours that will shade the entire outcome.

Yet, life is sustained by death. Plants thrive on the nutrient-rich compost of their dead forebears; we must kill plants and animals to keep ourselves alive. Decay is, therefore, not the antagonist but the catalyst of flourish. For it is from rotten leaves that fresh flowers bloom.

And thus, we land in the ever-present duality that has plagued poets and pragmatists alike. This grand play we call life cannot be limited to pleasure and beauty – which ballet does not contain strife? In which comedy is there no tragedy?

This EP is the first we release; it is our seed. The track Womb of Decay was the first that Liv Or-Shay, Laura Sestri and India Zahra Lyell made together, shortly after they had met. It was the seed of many years of creative synergy that shaped Lady Joker into what it is today 🃏

01/11/2024

🎵 New Artist release announcement

We’re thrilled to welcome Lady Joker's upcoming release on KROOKS Records! 🤩 Lady Joker, known for creating Theatrical Clubbing, blends electronic music with theatre, dance, live vocals, poetry, video art, and daring costumes to craft a surreal, immersive experience. Lady Joker invites audiences into a vivid multiverse where the line between artist and spectator blurs, sparking genuine exchanges of emotions and ideas.

Lady Joker has captivated audiences worldwide, performing at major events like Lowlands, Mysteryland, and Burning Man, as well as international venues like KaterBlau (DE), Tengu Shokudo (JP), and Château Perché (FR). Beyond live performances, Lady Joker has also made a mark in film, composing the score for 'RED LINES WHITE LINES FINE LINES', which premiered at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and was showcased at film festivals across the globe.

Lady Joker’s debut EP, Love Song for a Demon, is a powerful, introspective journey through themes of life, death, and renewal. With haunting vocals, evocative poetry, and a surreal blend of sounds, this release invites listeners to explore the complex, often hidden sides of existence.

Save the release date (December 4), keep your eye open for the upcoming release party as well 🎭 and prepare to be transported into the world of Lady Joker 🃏 www.krooks-records.org