{"product_id":"kraus-water-music-cs","title":"Kraus -Water Music CS","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's my pleasure to introduce my new album \"Water Music\", representing the results of my musical investigations over the course of 2025.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Here are some things I was thinking about during this period: traditional Japanese story \"The Bamboo Cutter's Tale\"; Enya's castle; Francesco Cavaliere's album \"ALATA ONDA\"; the sparrows in my bird feeder; Finland; synthetic flutes and bongos; George A. Romero's \"Martin\" (1977); Planetary Peace; this album's cover painting with its mysterious blue dome; Japanese gardens; \"Puzzle Music\" by Madalyn Merkey; and my desire to live in the forest with the elves.\"\u003cbr\u003e— Kraus \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Here in Tāmaki Makaurau, the almond and the plum are in blossom. The Poor Knights Lilly near the gate is blooming, too, with brush-like red sprays. Tauhou flit in the Tecomanthe, and house sparrows flick up dust in our balcony planter. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI’m using a postcard of Cui Bai’s (崔白) 'Sparrows in Winter' as a bookmark. A thousand years and a season away, his birds are the spitting image of this morning’s visitors. Our household likes to quote the great sentence from their entry in Heather \u0026amp; Robertson’s 'Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand': “A gregarious\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e, garrulous, and quarrelsome associate of humans.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKraus’s new album, 'Water Music', arrives in time for the southern spring. Focused through the use of Elektron synthesisers, it extends from the explorations documented on 2024’s 'Crystal Motors'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot commissioned by George I for any royal floatabout, this Wassermusik instead invites us to stage our own buoyancy tests. Some electronically generated insect hum and brook bubble, light flashes and perspective shifts, jogging pulses and squeaky fanfares loom and dissolve through eleven characteristically precise, concise, and luminous vignettes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eThe element emulating natural timbres contributes to the evocation of worlds in which nature is miniature and intimate, technology soft and fluid, and the uncanny gentle rather than frightening. In this enchanted ecology, solitude becomes a habitat for creativity and folklore bleeds into domestic life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKraus cites a constellation of current preoccupations: musically, synthetic flutes and bongos, Planetary Peace, Madalyn Merkey’s 'Puzzle Music', and Francesco Cavaliere’s ALATA ONDA; also, The Bamboo Cutter’s Tale, Enya’s castle, Finland, George A. Romero’s 'Martin', Japanese gardens, and the sparrows at his feeder. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother wonder from a true original. Kraus is grouse!\" \u003cbr\u003e— Jon Bywater \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eArtsy Records, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artsy Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59567590900057,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/7523\/3163\/files\/krauswatermusic.jpg?v=1790248956","url":"https:\/\/discreetmusic.myshopify.com\/products\/kraus-water-music-cs","provider":"Discreet Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}