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A Golden Brain

by Kraus

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"Aotearoa/New Zealand instrumental producer Kraus is back with a new album A Golden Brain, a scorching hot firecracker that sets the controls for the heart of somewhere between the outer limits and the Bermuda Triangle."

"I have never heard one dunger from Kraus, and here, his space-fried freakbeat micro-ragas are as hypnotic and alluring as ever. A Golden Brain is instantly hooky and familiar but radically singular and blazingly new."

"These pieces burn deep into your psyche and will hum and melt inside your head like a fever dream while you sleep. Kraus majestically brings together synths, guitar, bass, tape loops, sampler and percussion with a kind of alchemical juju. These pieces of scrunched up space junk, arcane mangled library music, mutant folk and medieval futurism will leave you scratching your head, wondering how he does it."

- Kiran Dass

Kraus played synthesizer, guitar, bass, tape loops, sampler and percussion.

All songs written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Kraus at Pudding Island, Auckland in 2019 and 2020, except "Queen of the Land of Gorre" recorded at Rocklands, Auckland 2017.

"Then he hewed the brain in an hundred pieces, and when he had done so he took up all those pieces, and threw them out at a window into the ditches of the castle."

Thanks to Damian Golfinopoulos, Kate Anderson, Kiran Dass, Sam Bradford, Chris Cudby, Alice Sparrow, Andrew McLeod, Floris Vanhoof.

Cover image by Kraus, April 2020.

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released April 29, 2020

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Kraus Auckland, New Zealand

Kraus (aka Pat Kraus) (he/him) is a producer of psychedelic music from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Since the turn of the millennium he has released 20 solo albums on labels such as Ultra Eczema and Soft Abuse, and performed in a dozen bands. His recent work melds hypnotic rhythms and day-glo sci-fi sound-design into new forms of experimental and ambient electronics. ... more

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