Kraus News
5 April 2024
New album Crystal Motors available now. Also until 20th April, a raffle of Kraus merch, including rare items from my personal collection.
All proceeds to UNRWA, the UN agency providing aid to Palestinian refugees since 1949.
12 July 2023
Recent releases:
"Fire! Water! Air! Kraus!" LP (Soft Abuse Records)
"Chronic Illness" tape (Artsy Records)
"Seahorse Wedding (Music for Float Tanks)" (self rel)
Coming soon (Friday 14th July):
"Petals on the Wind" live album (Bandcamp only)
https://kraussss.bandcamp.com/
12 April 2023
Melbourne show dates:
Tuesday 18th April at Make It Up Club
Thursday 20th April at Miscellania with Evelyn Ida Morris
Sunday 23rd April at Tramway Hotel with Mount Trout
03 May 2022
Kraus Presents: "The Mommy Returns" New Zealand Tour May/June 2022. Tour dates:
Ōtepoti/Dunedin, 13th May at The Crown with Sewage, Guardians and Murdabike
Pōneke/Wellington, 21st May at Pyramid Club with Crone
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, 28th May at The Polish Club with Ron Gallipoli’s “An Imposter”
Kirikiriroa/Hamilton, 3rd June at Never Project Space with Ron Gallipoli’s “An Imposter”
Sorry to miss you out Ōtautahi, see you next time round!
Covid is still rampant, so please come along but also please wear a mask, and stay home if you have symptoms. Thankyou so much! xoxoxo
29 June 2021
Upcoming really big showz
10 July: Deep Dive Festival, Auckland, Whammy/Wine Cellar
17 July: supporting Cuticles at Wine Cellar, Auckland
24 July: CATACOMBS at the Civic, Auckland (CANCELLED - covid)
31 July: Audio Foundation surround festival, Auckland
20 August: Wellington, Pyramid Club (CANCELLED)
3 September: Hamilton, Never Project Space (CANCELLED)
26 May 2021
New EP "Chocolate, Candy, Love and Dreams"
"New Zealand psychedelic producer Kraus returns with a six-track EP of bright and chewy electronic sounds. Full of glassy polyrhythmic percussion and crisp hyper-real synth-flutes, harps and gongs, Chocolate, Candy, Love and Dreams is an uplifting ode to digital sound. Produced in bed due to the artist's chronic illness, these songs were created as a form of sonic therapy, and draw on the work of American synth pioneer Laurie Spiegel, along with contemporary underground electronic artists from around the world, such as DSR Lines, Cool Person, Hama and Luka Productions. A nostalgic nod to 80s library music and FM-synth game soundtracks, yet also completely fresh."
Upcoming live shows:
Saturday 5th June at Audio Foundation, Auckland
Saturday 17th July at Wine Cellar, Auckland
25 April 2021
New EP release in May "Chocolate, Candy, Love and Dreams". A personal therapy in grief for my friend. Sweet bubbly music made out of love. THEN in October: major new Kraus electronic album via Soft Abuse and Sun Return xoxox
13 July 2020
Kraus "A Golden Brain" album release show
With support from Old Chips
Friday 24th July at Audio Foundation. Tickets from Under the Radar
29 April 2020
Kraus "A Golden Brain" album is out today.
"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
27 April 2020
New Kraus album issues forth THIS WEDNESDAY the 29th April 2020 on BANDCAMP KRAUS.
Thanks to Damian Golfinopoulos for the visual magic
28 March 2020
Ikuisuus in Finland have reissued I Could Destroy You with a Single Thought on cassette.
16 August 2019
New Kraus album "Pudding Island" available now from BANDCAMP KRAUS
12 August 2019
Kraus in Australia:
- Weds 21/Thurs 22nd August at Loop, Melbourne with Ov Pain, Motte, Jeff Henderson
- Saturday 24th Aug (afternoon) at Yurt, 13 Linden St, Brunswick East, Melbourne with Motte and Torrential Brain
- Monday 26th August: Monday Night Mass at Northcote Social Club, Melbourne with Evelyn Ida Morris and Motte
- Friday 30th August at The Lady Hampshire, Sydney with Motte, Witness K and Low Flung
PLUS new albums coming v soon
5 July 2019
Kraus performances in July:
- Friday 12 at Audio Foundation (Ex Partner EP release)
- Saturday 13 at Wine Cellar (with Old Chips and recuerde)
- Saturday 20 at Wine Cellar (with the Stinging Nettles and Drorgan)
- Friday 26 at Meow, WEllington (Orchestra of Spheres 10th Anniversary Show)
15 May 2019
This is a video of Kraus playing electronic guitar music with Mick Elborado (Terminals) on bass and Gabriel Griffin (Sewage) on drums. Guitar
09 May 2019
update, more gigs: GOGG is playing the Wine Cellar, Auckland on wed 29th May.
07 May 2019
I have returned to Tﾄ［aki Makaurau. What can i tell you... I'm playing thurs 9 may at Audio Foundation, and on the 16th on bFM drive show, and then with rosie langabeer's 18-piece ensemble on the night of the 16th, then playing audio foundation on the 24th. that is all
05 April 2019
What IS happening? I/he (Kraus) is in dunedin for ONE MONTH. In the mean time:
KRAUS ""grip the moon"" reviewed by byron coley in the wire:
"Fine solo tape by New Zealand's Pat Kraus, a multi-instrumental avant garage threat, whose first album was reissued by Ultra Eczema (so you know it ain't hay). The instrumentals range from garage-oid pseudo-band workouts to electronics based mood-splurts and even some proggy spots in between these."
05 April 2019
kraus playing at PYRAMID POWER festival, wellington 1-4 MAY
05 April 2019
Bought a DIGITAL synthesizer!! what happens now!?
05 April 2019
KRAUS ALBUM GRIP THE MOON still available from BAND CAMP KRAUS and Soft Abuse Records.
more releasees this year