Kraak presents Blooming Dervishes with Liam Grant, Cian Nugent, Aya Suzuki, Aonghus McEvoy & Acetylène

A whirling world of sound unfurls on this first KRAAK show of the spring, in joyous collaboration with the AB Clubmates. Entrancing cyclical music from many orbits is our way of welcoming a new season, featuring Irish guitar expansions two ways, French trad desintegrations, Eastern renewals of Western classicisms and a new heir of US ragtime traditions ~ five acts and one new album to rejoice with as the longer days draw us in. AcetylèneFrench multi-instrumentalist Lise Barkas uses bagpipes and hurdy gurdys (including a hand-me-down from none other than Yann Gourdon) to draw out time and space with intrinsic drones. Brussels-based artist and “media saboteur” Yann Leguay has been deconstructing sound and its sources through dissecting and recomposing hardware, transforming turntables, hard drives, angle grinders and other unsuspecting appliances into instruments. Forces joined, a hypnotic trance slowly unfolds, harkening to ancient motifs where uncanny hums and oscillating vibrations meet the decay of dusty rhythms and disintegrating electronics, creating serpentine harmonies for the undiscovered primordial self.https://acetylene.bandcamp.com/album/actylnAonghus McEvoyDublin native Aonghus McEvoy delves into the improvisational as much as the compositional, finding fluency in solo outings as well as through collaborations with artists such as Jon Collin, Damo Suzuki, Rhodri Davies, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (