Kraus Announces Album ‘Water Music’ + Releases Single ‘Princess From The Moon’
Aotearoa electronic musician Kraus returns this year with an 11-track album of weird and wonderful synth instrumentals, entitled Water Music.
Out 9 September and recorded in his home studio over the course of 2025, Water Music is a typically diverse collection, drawing on a wide range of film soundtracks and library music, psychedelic pop, the strangest fringes of contemporary European electronics, and folk music from around the world. Bubbly electronic percussion and shimmering synth textures abound, while lead single Princess From The Moon is a nostalgic slice of bouncy 70’s synth pop, reminiscent of German electronic trio Harmonia.
Listen to Princess From The Moon here
“It’s my pleasure to introduce my new album Water Music, representing the results of my musical investigations over the course of 2025,” says Kraus.
“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.”
Water Music is available to pre-order via Bandcamp
Photo Credit: Karen Dolphin
