KRAAK presents a new tape series pulling sounds from the collective unconscious: SPLIT LIVES bring together live sets harvested from our deep archives, which go as far back as 2012 and contain dozens of memory-hole recordings from KRAAK's nomadic stagings. Each tape contains two show recordings that complement or complete each other in oblique ways that might only make sense to us ~ hopefully they'll trigger memories for those who were there, and prompt new ones in those who weren't.
For this first outing, two Brit acts of recent timelines bringing outstanding moments of semi-controlled clang and chaos: Mosquito Farm's bouncing reverberations this year at Kiosk in Ghent, and Horacio Pollard's storm blast of danceable havoc from KRAAK Festival 2024. An almost intelligible introductory entry for these Split Lives, whose future iterations promise definite surprises from our multiple pasts.
Side A Mosquito Farm live at Kiosk, Ghent - 10 April 2026
The sun has set but light still suffuses the sculptures that hang from the windowed ceilings. Everywhere there are objects of potential utility: clay pots of imaginary fillings and fragments of fragments, and now these tinkering talismans join the sensory cacophony. Bowed beams and bouncing bits, amplified vacancies and rattling loops merge into compositions of hypnotizing resonance. Mosquito Farm isn't a real place, but for a night in Ghent it was a shared ideal within the unsteady reverberances of the Kiosk walls.
Side B Horacio Pollard live at KRAAK Festival - 2 March 2024
A golden microphone can be a spawner of new mythologies, a soothsayer of sorts. And this one night at KRAAK Festival it came blasting with surprising prophetic power. The Pollard crashed the stage like an uninvited guest, the truly memorable kind: outspoken, unpredictable, unnervingly entertaining, and pounding out the kind of dance music that takes you places you didn't know you wanted to go. The message was clear ~ we wanted more, whatever more would mean, wherever those obliterated beats and wobbling electronics served.
